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...

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These records (1894-1975) of the Montana Children's Center in Twin Bridges, and of its predecessor the State Orphans' Home, consist of executive board minutes, indexed records of children received at the center, financial records, blueprints, and miscellany.

Abstract This collection is a subgroup (Division) of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services records, RS 495. Please see the primary finding aid for more Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services records. This collection is comprised of DPHHS's Human Community Service records and includes materials from the Beaverhead, Blaine, Cascade, Gallatin, Hill,...

Content Description Includes 29 black and white photographic prints from the O'Brien family of Newlon, Montana. The collection includes views of the O'Brien family homestead, 1890 to 1910; a class photo with James and Ted O'Brien; James O'Brien with friends, circa 1905; a man with horses advertising an O'Brien Hardware store; the Sidney Hospital, circa 1906; Mrs. Margaret McBride, circa 1870; Mr. Siward on horseback, 1910s; views of unidentified men with horses; Gerald O'Brien, son of George and Bertha...

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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.

Content Description One black cloth photograph album with 98 black paper pages containing 198 black and white photographic prints. The album likely belonged to a member of the crew that built the Volta Dam (now Ryan Dam) on the Missouri River and the photographs document several construction projects as well as family activities. Includes views of construction of the Volta Dam (now Ryan Dam) on the Great Falls of the Missouri River and its powerhouse, as well as views of the Thompson Falls Dam and powerhouse. ...