Portrait photographs

Content Description Photograph album containing 50 black and white carte de visites and tintypes collected by Ida Constans. Ida Louise Constans (1868-1956) was the daughter of French immigrant Philip Constans (1836-1902) who arrived in Last Chance Gulch in Montana in 1864. Ida Constans's mother, Elizabeth Herman Constans (1838-1924), was of German decent and born in Ohio. The three other Constans children were Caroline (1860-1861), Henry Philip (1861-1889), and Alfred Edward William (1867-1933). The Constans...

Abstract The Rankin Family photograph collections includes 201 photographic prints from the John and Olive Rankin Family of Missoula, Montana, dating from 1865 to 1973. Views include family photographs and portraits of the family's seven children, Jeannette, Philena, Harriett, Wellington, Mary, Grace, and Edna, and their families and homes. Jeannette Rankin, the Rankin's oldest daughter and the first woman elected the U.S. Congress, is most prominently represented in the collection with photographs...

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The Richardson Brothers Ranch was among the earliest homesteads in what is now Sheridan County, Montana. This collection includes four photograph albums containing 743 photographic prints and 180 loose photographs with views of life on the ranch, family portraits, vacation snaps, a military service album, and many other photographs from various Richardson family members from the 1880s to the 1990s.

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Three black and white photographic prints: one portrait of former Montana Governor Sam Ford and two portraits of his wife, Mary Ford. The Sam Ford portrait and one of the Mary Ford portraits are on an adjoining cardboard mount, photographed by Clarence DeWalt.