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 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Oscar A. Baarson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-238
Abstract Oscar Baarson was assistant superintendent of the Anaconda Company's East Helena, Montana, plant; Helena City Engineer; district manager for the U.S. War Production Board during World War II, engineer for the State Examiners Office and Lewis and Clark County surveyor. This collection consists of Oscar Baarson's files (1925-1950) concerning his work with the Anaconda Company, the City of Helena, and the State Examiners Office; and a small group of personal papers relating to Baarson's family,...
Dates: 1916-1958

Federal Highway Administration Forest Highways Projects reports

 Collection
Identifier: MC-179
Abstract

These records consists of reports generated during the construction of various Federal Highway Administration Forest Highways Projects in Montana. Reports consist of financial records, correspondence, photographs, maps, and engineering drawings.

Dates: 1922-1969

Glasgow Courier Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC-62
Abstract

This collection (1933-1956) consists of materials gathered by reporters while covering the planning and construction of the Fort Peck Dam, a project partially intended to provide work for the unemployed of the 1930s Depression era. Included are general correspondence, press releases, research files, and miscellany.

Dates: 1933-1956

Montana Department of Transportation, Preconstruction Bureau records

 Collection
Identifier: RS-404
Abstract

Records of the Montana Department of Highways, and Montana Department of Transportation, Preconstruction Bureau. This collection consists of the records of public hearings for various roads projects, files of Bureau Chief Steve Kologi, and the work of the Preconstruction Bureau’s Environmental Landscape Unit. Also included are the Libby Dam Project Files.

Dates: 1954-1998

U.S. Work Projects Administration records

 Collection
Identifier: MC-77
Abstract

These records (1935-1943) of the U.S. Work Projects Administration (WPA) in Montana consist of administrative materials; historic record surveys of county, state, and federal agencies and local service and church organizations; and writers' project materials, including correspondence, research files, interviews with pioneers, and drafts of articles and books including Copper Camp, Land of Nakoda, and Montana Almanac, 1941.

Dates: 1935-1943