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This collection consists of approximately 300 architectural drawings. Most of the drawings are of proposed and approved hotels and residences for Yellowstone National Park, circa 1890-1830. About 80% of these drawings and blueprints are by architect, Robert C. Reamer. Drawings depict from building elevations to plans for windows and doors inside the buildings.

Content Description One photograph album containing 149 black and white photographic prints collected by Hope Duncan Galusha, daughter of Hugh D. and Winifred Galusha of Helena, Montana. The album contains snapshots of Hope, her parents, her sister Ellen, and various friends. The album begins with the 1935 Vigilante Parade in downtown Helena, summer at Lake Coeur d'Alene in Idaho, the Galusha family home at 531 Power Street in Helena, Yellowstone National Park, the Helena earthquake damage, Hope's freshman year...

Abstract Arnold Jacobsen opened the Baby Bunting Shop in Butte, Montana, in 1935. By 1947 he and his wife Lois Jacobsen had seven stores in three states. In 1951 they sold the stores and opened the Win-a-Kee resort on Whitefish Lake. Jacobsen served as a delegate to the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention and was a member of the Flathead County Park Board. Papers (1949-1984) include materials on his service in the constitutional convention and on the park board. Also included is outgoing...

Abstract The Montana Board of Passenger Tramway Safety regulated ski area chairlifts. These records include correspondence (1990-1998); case files for applications (1991-1996), engineers (1972-1997), inspection reports (1987-1996), and registrations (1971-1997); court papers (1995-1996); hearings (1993-1997); maps; minutes of Board meetings (1989-1997); reports (1975-1991); subject files (1971-1997); and miscellany (1984-1999). The W. James Kembel subgroup contain correspondence (1986-1990), minutes...

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William M. Nichols was president of the Yellowstone Park Company, the H.C. Child Corporation, the Spanish Creek Ranch, and other enterprises. Papers include general correspondence (1946-1957); financial records; minutes of the Yellowstone Park Company (1955-1962); and an extensive subject file (1914-1966) maintained both by Nichols and by his son John Q. Nichols, concerning the various corporate and financial affairs of the Nichols and Child families.

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The Park Saddle Horse Company, owned by Wilbur N. Noffsinger and later by George W. Noffsinger, was a concession in Glacier National Park, Montana. Records (1915-1947) include financial and horse-raising records, subject files, organizational papers, diaries (1933-1947) of George Noffsinger; and subgroups for the W.N. Noffsinger Company, the Big Draw Land and Stock Company, and the Big Draw Sheep Company.

Abstract Thomas C. Power (1829-1923) came to Montana Territory in 1866 and established a successful mercantile and transportation network in and around Fort Benton serving miners, military posts, Indian tribes of the region, and local residents. In partnership with others he developed a transportation network of steamboats along the Upper Missouri as well as overland stage and freight routes. He moved his corporate headquarters to Helena in 1878 and had an interest in politics that paralleled his...