June 28, 2023

State of Montana: Digitized Haynes Photographs Provide World-Wide Access

State of Montana: Digitized Haynes Photographs Provide World-Wide Access. “The Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives staff are wrapping up their largest digitization project to date with the well-known photographs by F. Jay Haynes. Haynes’ work is one of the foundational collections of the MTHS Photo Archives. Since the early 1980s, more than 6,000 original glass negatives (and associated reference prints) have been available to in-person researchers in Helena.”

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March 29, 2022

Lewiston Tribune: Great Falls Tribune archives find a new home

Lewiston Tribune (Montana): Great Falls Tribune archives find a new home. “Elevator doors open up to the top floor of the History Museum in Great Falls, where overflow and large items not on display are stored, and an entire corner of the room was filled with recently acquired filing cabinets…. The History Museum recently acquired more than 20 filing cabinets filled with newspaper files and several boxes with photographs and photo negatives from the Great Falls Tribune in a massive effort to preserve the records after the Tribune building sale was finalized and everything needed to go.”

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March 25, 2022

Montana State University: Montanan’s 1972 Constitutional Convention retrospective interviews now archived at MSU Library

Montana State University: Montanan’s 1972 Constitutional Convention retrospective interviews now archived at MSU Library. “Montana State University Library’s Archives and Special Collection has created a searchable online repository of video interviews and transcripts of surviving delegates and staffers from the Montana Constitutional Convention of 1972.”

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July 29, 2021

Mississippi State University: Digitized photos from MSU Libraries’ Holder Collection unveil beauty of Montana’s Crow Indian tribe

Mississippi State University: Digitized photos from MSU Libraries’ Holder Collection unveil beauty of Montana’s Crow Indian tribe. “The photographic beauty of both the natural and built environments of Montana’s Crow Indian tribe is now easily accessible to academic researchers and U.S. history enthusiasts through Mississippi State University Libraries’ digital collections.” Not a huge collection, but good photography.

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March 29, 2021

Billings Gazette: Historian brings Montana single mom homesteader’s history to life

Billings Gazette: Historian brings Montana single mom homesteader’s history to life. “Lily Bell Stearns was no one important when she arrived by train in Montana in 1912. Stearns was a recent divorcee with three children, including one daughter left behind in a mental institution. Yet she now has her own online museum exhibit. Thanks to Sara Gregg, a University of Kansas associate professor of history and environmental studies, Stearns’ Eastern Montana homesteading story has been excavated like the bones of an unknown dinosaur. By poring over old documents, census records and letters, Gregg has unearthed the sad tale of a single woman struggling to survive in a wild, unforgiving land.”

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March 9, 2021

KULR: Blackfeet woman creates international travel website and app to share history, resources, information

KULR: Blackfeet woman creates international travel website and app to share history, resources, information. “A Blackfeet woman has started a non-profit organization to gather and share information, resources, and history of the tribe with travelers across Montana and Canada. The project promotes interaction and contribution from the public. Souta Calling Last collects centuries worth of information through storytelling, factual data, and social trends to help tribal members and tourists better understand the area where they live or explore.”

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February 14, 2021

Sidney Herald: Copper Book available in digital archive and hardcopy

Sidney Herald: Copper Book available in digital archive and hardcopy. “The Montana Legislative Services Division announced [January 28] that the 2021 Lawmakers of Montana, better known as the Copper Book, is available in hard copy, and that past issues are now viewable in a digital archive. The books include professional and personal details about the men and women who have made legislative history in Montana since the middle of the last century.”

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March 13, 2020

Char-Koosta News: New website, app, and exhibit showcase Montana’s National Register properties

Char-Koosta News: New website, app, and exhibit showcase Montana’s National Register properties. “The Montana Historical Society (MHS) is pleased to introduce Historic Montana… our expanded and redesigned website, mobile app, and iPad exhibit. Historic Montana features narrative histories, photographs, and links to sources for hundreds of Montana buildings, neighborhoods, and cultural sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Its abundant content is reproduced from the thousands of National Register interpretive signs at properties across the state.”

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March 11, 2020

Montana History Revealed: Montana’s Content on Chronicling America Grows

Montana History Revealed: Montana’s Content on Chronicling America Grows. “Last September, I shared how we selected newspapers for our latest National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant-funded project, which focuses on booms and busts after 1922. Now those titles are starting to appear on the Chronicling America website. As new papers come online, we’re going to share a little bit about why each paper was chosen. We hope this will serve as a reference, pique your interest, and encourage you to head to the site to search or browse.”

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November 22, 2019

Montana History Revealed: ExploreBig Gets Bigger and Better

Montana History Revealed: ExploreBig Gets Bigger and Better. “In 2017, [Montana Historical Society] launched ExploreBig.org—a website and mobile app—to share the history and architectural significance of selected Montana buildings, neighborhoods, and cultural sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Initially, ExploreBig included approximately 250 individual stories and several historic district and themed tours. In January 2019, the MHS Outreach and Interpretation program began efforts to make a good thing even better by showcasing our entire treasure trove of interpretive material.”

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October 2, 2019

Missoula Current: UM students, faculty, staff digitize Kaimin in searchable database

Missoula Current: UM students, faculty, staff digitize Kaimin in searchable database. “Kaimin is a Salish word that means ‘paper that brings news,’ and since 1898 the Montana Kaimin newspaper has covered the University of Montana with an independent student voice. Now that 121 years of accumulated news coverage is available online in a searchable database, courtesy of UM’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library and its ScholarWorks service.”

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April 26, 2018

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: University of Montana’s New Online Archive of Black Criminal Justice History in the State

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: University of Montana’s New Online Archive of Black Criminal Justice History in the State. “The University of Montana has debuted a new online historical timeline that documents the history of African Americans in Montana relating to state law and the criminal justice system. The timeline, which includes entries from 1864 to 2018, includes archival photos, interpretive commentary and hundreds of individuals and events.”

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March 1, 2018

Great Falls Tribune: Watch historic footage of Montana life saved by Montana Historical Society

Great Falls Tribune: Watch historic footage of Montana life saved by Montana Historical Society. “A 1926 rodeo in Rosebud County. A Blackfeet medicine woman thanking the Sun God for the recovery of her grandson from polio. The building of Fort Peck Dam. Vintage airplanes in flight. The Montana Historical Society’s new Moving Image Archive is bringing back to light (and to YouTube) historic films, and they’re a rare look into life in days of Montana gone by.” I took a quick shufti at the channel, and while I don’t think it’s super new, it’s definitely worth a browse.

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