Edmond Toomey (1892-1960) was a Helena, Montana, attorney, legislator, and mining and oil promoter and investor. Records (1907-1961) include office time books, estate case files, briefs, and organizational and financial records for sixteen companies with which Toomey was involved, either as officer or attorney.

The records of this early twentieth century Missoula, Montana mining company (1906-1923) consist of correspondence, employment, financial, legal and organizational records; minutes; and reports and print material. Also included are personal papers (1898-1922) of individuals associated with the company, and organizational records (1901-1950) of a variety of other companies. The company's mines were located in the Wallace Mining District.

The Trout Mining Company produced manganese oxide for batteries. Records consist of scattered correspondence (1939-1951); payroll records (1956-1959), orders for equipment and supplies (1946-1953); production records, including a sample book (1958) for the Blaine Mine; reports; and miscellany, including field survey books (1936-1938).

Records of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local #88 in Anaconda, Montana, consist of general correspondence (1890s-1950s); minute books (1889-1965); daybooks (1896-1964); membership dues books (1896-1965). Also included are records of Deer Lodge Local #1229; the Montana State Council of Carpenters; the national union; the Montana State Federation of Labor/Montana State AFL-CIO; the Montana Apprenticeship Council; and the Non-Ferrous Metals Council.

Records of the Montana Department of the United Spanish War Veterans consist of a minute book (1903-1935); convention proceedings; individual application forms; and printed material.

These records of the U.S. Federal Works Agency's Bureau of Community Facilities consist of field files (1942-1945) for child care, recreation, and health care centers in Butte, Bozeman, Great Falls, Helena, Lewistown, and Missoula, Montana.

These records of the U.S. Bureau of the Census consist of Montana Territory census enumeration sheets (1870) for three districts in Lewis and Clark County, including mortality, social statistics, agricultural production, and products of industry; and census enumeration sheets (1880) for eleven counties, including mortality, defective, dependent, and delinquent classes, and products of industry.

These U.S. Federal Power Commission records consist of hearing materials in a case involving the failure of the Montana Power Company to apply for a license to operate its hydroelectric dams on the Missouri River and tributaries. Exhibits in the case (including steamboat logs, diaries, articles, clippings, etc.) sought to document whether the Missouri River was navigable above Fort Benton. [FPC Docket #IT-5840.]

This collection consists of seven letterpress books of outgoing correspondence (1877-1894) of Crow Indian Agents Lewis .H. Carpenter, George W. Frost, Augustus R. Keller, C.H. Barstow, Henry J. Armstrong, H.E. Williamson, and Moses P. Wyman. Includes reports and letters to the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs; minutes of meetings with tribal council; census; texts of treaties; inventories; accounts of events; and financial materials.