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Street Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Horse-drawn vehicles are parked along the roadside and pedestrians are walking and riding bicycles on the unpaved street. Business signs read: "Noah's Ark"...
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Front Street Greeting Card

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Description: Christmas greeting card or postcard with view of Front Street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "John Wernecke Merchant Tailor," "Moore's," "Sal...
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High School

Date: 1911
Description: View across unpaved road towards an unidentified high school. A simple fence lines the sidewalk in front of the school.
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Marent Trestle

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Description: View looking up at the Marent trestle, part of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A train carrying passenger cars passes over the 228 foot high trestle, and a ...
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Shepard of the Hills

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Description: An excursion boat, "Shepard of the Hills," carrying many passengers and flying a U.S. flag near the front.
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Stagecoach at Overland Mail Company

Date: 1890
Description: Men with a stagecoach in front of the Wells Fargo Mail and Express Company. In 1858, Wells Fargo helped start the Overland Mail Company, also known as the ...
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Log Cabin on Flathead River

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Description: Oval cutaway of a view of a log cabin built on the banks of the Flathead river. The cabin is surrounded by stumps and the view includes the river and exten...
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Ex-Senator Gibson Wheatfield

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Description: A man poses in a harvested wheatfield. Harvested wheat lies in bundles in the field. In the distance is hilly land. Caption reads: "Ex-Senator Gibson Wheat...
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"Dad Hickman," Oldest Cowboy on the Range

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Description: Outdoor portrait of Dad Hickman who is sitting on a horse in a field. Hickman is looking at the camera and is wearing a plaid shirt. He has a rope coiled ...
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Reception Room

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Description: The Reception Room at the National Hotel. Caption reads: "Reception Room, National Hotel, Kalispell, Mont."
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Horses and a Camp on Rangeland

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Description: View of horses and a man on horseback in the foreground, with four tents a herd gathered together in the background on a range. Caption reads: "'Reps' Star...
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"A Load of Montana Spuds"

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Description: A view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon which is loaded with giant, six-foot-high potatoes, probably to be used as a tall-tale postcard. Caption reads:...
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Cowboy on a Bucking Bronco

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Description: Ranch hand holding a crop high above his head on a bucking horse. In the distance are trees and shrubs. Caption reads: "'A Cowboy on Bucking Bronco.'"
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Factory

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Description: View down road toward two horses hitched to a wagon on a road in front of a factory and other buildings.
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Roadside Pond

Date: 1911
Description: A view of a roadside pond, with several buildings and trees in the background.
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Fishing Resort

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Description: Elevated view of the banks along a fishing stream, with a few buildings on the other side of the water. Caption reads: "Great Fishing Resort Near Kirksvill...
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Horse and Carriage at Loading Dock

Date: 1911
Description: View toward a horse and carriage near the loading dock of a building.
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View of Town from Schoolhouse

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Description: Panoramic elevated view of small town taken from the school house. The town is in flat country and has large expanses between houses. Caption reads: "Panor...
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Henry Elling General Store

Date: 1890
Description: Men standing in front of the Henry Elling California general store, one of the first in Montana, with goods presented around the entry way.
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Harding Mills

Date: 1920
Description: By 1919, the Washoe Reduction Works at Harding Mills could boast that its 585-foot smokestack was the tallest masonry structure in the world and that the s...

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