Content Description

O'Brien family papers (ca. 1889-1982) collection includes family and business papers created and kept by the John and Ellen O'Brien family of Newlon, MT. Includes biographical material, correspondence, court papers, financial records, legal documents, printed material, clippings, and ephemera. Material related to family, the family run store/stage stop/hotel, and son Ted, who served as sheriff in Richland Co., including material related to the 1929 Fairview Bank robbery.

Content Description 83 black and white photographic prints with views of two women and two men traveling through Montana by train as well additional travel photos of the Northwest United States and parts of Canada. Photographs collected by Rosa "Belle" St. Martin (later Bowman) of Minneapolis, Minnesota and removed from an album prior to donation. Views include a summer journey by train through Montana by Belle and three companions, Frank Bowman, Otto, and Elair. Montana locations include Miles City, Gardiner,...