Photo shows six buildings from Mount Sentinel - Old Gym, Main, Science and Women's Halls and Library and the President's home. University of Montana, Missoula.
Items resized by Archives Technician Carlie Magill on 8/10/2011 from City Map of Missoula, Montana, Street Guide for Missoula, Montana; Missoula, The Garden City of Montana and Car Line Addition to Missoula, Montana.
Items cropped by Archives Technician Carlie Magill on 8/8/2011 from page 5 and 129 of Polk Directory 1905-06, page 29 Flathead Facts, page 54 Lincoln County, page 43 Missoula Illustrated, cover of the Missoulian 1902 Holiday Edition and cover of…
Train wreck. Northern Pacific Train Number 1 hauled by Engine 440 piled up between Bonner and Missoula. People stand around train. Clark Fork River in background.
In this letter, Senator James Murray expresses his support for what is currently known as the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. This act allowed the immigration of 214,000 immigrants and was intended to provide for the legal passage of Southern Europeans…
In this letter to Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland (Arizona), supporters of the Lehman-Humphrey (S. 2842) bill ask McFarland to pressure Senator Pat McCarran (Nevada) to call for hearings regarding the immigration bills before the Senate. …
This letter from a number of Democratic senators, including James Murray, expresses support of President Truman's veto of the McCarran-Walter bill on immigration in 1952. The first two signers, Herbert Lehman and Hubert Humphrey, would introduce an…
In this letter, Senator James Murray expresses concerns regarding the McCarran-Walter Act (also known as the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952). Before the bill became law, Murray opposed it in favor of a more liberal immigration bill…
This list for the Missoula Farmers' Market (Montana) is a list of vendors and the spaces they have reserved at the market. Of particular note are the many vendors of Hmong descent listed. By the mid-1980s, Hmong farmers became a noted presence at…
This is a transcript of letter from Professor Paul Chrisler Phillips research files. In the letter Thomas Meagher, the first territorial governor of Montana informs Secretary of State Seward on the political climate of Montana shortly after the…
This letter from Senator Hubert Lehman of New York to Senator James Murray of Montana is in thanks for cosponsoring an immigration reform bill introduced by Lehman and Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.
This is the first page of sample questions for a citizenship test sent to Donald MacIvor in 1920. The questions on this page include routine questions, such as "What is your name?" to more inflammatory questions, such as "are you an anarchist?" …
These birth certificates found with the records of the Red Lodge Canning Company (Montana) indicate that a number of children in Carbon County born to immigrant parents in the 1920s.
This ledger list the staff employed at the Conrad Mansion in Kalispell, Montana. The cook at the time was Mokaturo M. Hori, a Japanese immigrant who became a noted rancher and restaurateur in Whitefish, Montana.
This entry is for items purchased from Sam Pramenko's grocery store in Anaconda, Montana from September to November 1895. While Kragovich's purchases are relatively modest, other customers purchases include more expensive goods such as cigars and…
Sam Pramenko was a Serbian immigrant who owned a grocery store in Anaconda, Montana from the 1890s to the 1900s. This page is an index for customers whose name begins with the letter K. The names listed indicate that Pramenko's store served…
Force reports listed the number of laborers assigned to specific tasks and any notes by the foremen. These notes often include inclement weather conditions or progress on a specific project, such as a tunnel or bridge. As this report indicates,…
By the 1910s, the Missoula area Polk directories created separate listings for Chinese laundries and Chinese restaurants. This reflects both a rising number of Chinese businesses and a perceived need to distinguish these businesses from…
Items cropped by Archives Technician Carlie Magill on 6/28/2011 from page 109 of the 1920 Sentinel, the cover of UM Department of Home Economics, page 105 of 1915 Sentinel, detail of Helen Gleason from The University of Montana Home Economics…
This is a cover for a short publication by the Chicago, St. Paul, and Milwaukee Railway to encourage use of its line through Montana. By promoting Montana's economic potential, the railway hoped to convince businesses and entrepreneurs to move into…
This section of map shows the group of buildings lining the south side of Front Street along the Clark Fork in Missoula, Montana. As the descriptions of the building indicate, a number of dwellings lining Front Street were occupied by Chinese…
This is a photograph of Hang, who is identified as a servant to Alicia Conrad when the Conrad family lived in Fort Benton, prior to their move to the Flathead Valley and founding Kalisepell in 1891.
In 1923, the Montana State Legislature passed an Alien Land Law, one of many passed in the early 1900s. These laws were intended to prevent the ownership of land by immigrants, particularly Chinese and other non-white immigrant groups. California's…
This article recounts a visit by two doctors to a "poor devil" known to Missoulians as "Chinaman Jim" and "Lee Kim." While the account is sympathetic to the man stricken with leprosy, the depiction of Chinese neighborhood in Missoula is less than…
Scandinavian immigration to Montana spiked in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This document from 1894 establishes Christ's Independent Church of Scandinavians in Missoula, Montana. The church was located on Spruce Street, west of McCormick Street…
This letter from Senator Herbert Lehman of New York to Senator James Murray of Montana illustrates Murray's support for the Lehman-Humphrey immigration bill (S. 2343), a more liberal alternative to the bill proposed by Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada…
This is the first page from a story by Frank Bird Linderman titled "Yong Sing." The title character is a restaurateur in Marysville, Montana who goes broke when the local miner's union boycott decide to boycott Chinese owned establishments. The…
This is the first page of a preliminary hearing against Emil Lehsou and Tom Gah violation of Montana's Alien Land Act of 1923. The act declared the selling or leasing land to Aliens ineligible for citizenship illegal. Lehsou, the son of German…
This is the first page from a story by Frank Bird Linderman titled "Swede Sam's Luck." The story, which begins in Helena, Montana, tells the story of a "Swede from America" and his return to Sweden. The story was told to Linderman by Dr. O.M.…
One means by which the Northern Pacific Railway imported its labor was through trading companies that recruited workers from Asia. Many firms involved in the importation of labor were owned or run by employees of Asian descent. In this case, the…
This certificate establishes Harry Stanford's status as a citizen of the United States. Harry Stanford, who emigrated from Canada in 1872, was an expert on birds and Western wildlife who resided in Kalispell.
Harry P. Stanford emigrated from Canada to the United States in 1872. This document establishes Stanford's intent and eligibility to become a naturalized citizen of the United States. This practice dates back to the Naturalization Act of 1795 and…
This report by Edward Young was produced for the United States Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The report includes a summary of the flow of immigration to the United States at the time of the report, including where immigrants were coming from and…
The Collins Land Company, based in Helena, Montana, bought and sold public land. The contracts assigning ownership of public land were collectively known as "land scrip." This pamphlet informs prospective settlers on the various varieties of scrip…
This payroll from 1906 lists the names of several workers for the Northern Pacific Railway. According to an article by Yuki Ichioka appearing in a 1980 of Labor History, Japanese labor began to replace Chinese labor in the 1880s and 1890s.
This brochure by the Northern Pacific Railway's Immigration Department attempts to encourage Polish immigrants to migrate to Trout Creek in Western Montana. The brochure highlights the agricultural, educational, and commercial appeals of Trout…
This poem appears in a notebook kept by Angus McDonald, a Scottish immigrant who moved to the Flathead in 1847 as an employee of the Hudson Bay Company. The poem tells the story of an Iroquois steersman named Joseph Monigue known for his ability to…