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^heMontana Historical Societyis responsible for preserve resources, theywillbelostfor alltime.Until
puttingour—state's historyintoyourhands, minds, we carefullycatalogresources, no one can findthem and
andhearts forgivingyou accessto our state's use them.Anduntilwe create curriculum, texts, exhibits,
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historic treasures. magazine articles,workshops,web pages, indices, and more,
Ifthe Montana Historical Societywere simplyto the stories thatcanbe drawnfrom primarysource materials
warehouse photographs, oral historytapes, dresses, furniture, willforeverbe lost.
diaries, and letters fromMontana'spast,wewould have We are pleased to sharewithyouhowwe made
failed allour constituentswho love theWest'spast. Montana's historyaccessible toyoubetweenJuly 1,2000,
Fortunately,oncewe have preservedresources,we andJune 30, 2001. Despite obstacles ofoutdated, inadequate
are also responsible fororganizing, analyzing,digitizing, facilities and technologyand ofminimal staff,we believewe
designing, and presentinginformation aboutMontana's past have beengood stewards ofMontana's unique andpriceless
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so thatitis accessibletoyou. historicalresources and havebeenvigorous in ourefforts to
Juggling these missions is no small feat. Untilwe safely make them accessible toyou.
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ImprovingAccess:Through the Magazine ImprovingAccess: Electronically
Fiftv years ago, Albert J. Partoll and K. Ross Toole launched • www.montanahistoricalsociety.org. The worldwide web offers
Montana TheMagazineofWesternHistory as the Montana Historical anotherwayforustohelpthepastcomealive.Theworldcannow
Society's flagshipjournal.Montana remains a miracle.Journalism is a stay current with Society
cutthroat field. Better-known periodicals have achieved quick lame news, exhibits, programs,
and then fallen prey to fickle times and tastes. Our small budget research, and photograph
demands thatwe scrimp and save. or art reproduction options
What accounts for our magazine's successful survival to a by stopping at our newly
golden anniversary andbeyond? First, the world's love affairwith the refurbishedwebpage.
AmericanWestflourishes. • Hired a dataentrytechnician
Second,from its birth,Montana TheMagazineofWesternHistory to input museum catalog
embraced a wise, practical formula: the very best scholarship pre- card information into an
sented in lively, clear, and interesting writing, beautiful art, and cre- electronically searchable
ativedesigns.This magicrecipeaccountsforMontana'sappealaround software program, Past MontanaHeritageProject-Community
the globe to university scholars, high school students, journalists, Perfect with funding from HistoryOnlineatSimmsHighSchool
Hollywoodwriters, andyou. the Institute for Museum
and Library Services.
ImprovingAccess:ThroughMontanaHistorical Society- • Began cataloging the recendy acquired Bob Scriver collection elec-
Press Books tronically.
• Nez Perce Summer, 1877:The U. S.ArmyandtheNee-Me-Poo Crisis • JoinedaconsortiumofseventeenMontanalibrariesin aprojecttided
(paperback reprint) This the"WesternMontanaSharedNetworkCatalog"whichwillmake
volume was chosen by ourlibraryholdingssearchable through asharedonlinecatalog.
both the Historyand the r Nez Perce
Military Book Clubs as Su ImprovingAccess:ThroughourTransformedMuseum Store
featured selections. Inthisbright,open,newlyremodeledstore,lookforyourfavorite
• AGuidetoHistoricHamilton history books and Russell prints and discover our new selection of
(Montana Mainstreet prints, cards, Lewis and Clark reference materials, and Montana-
Series,Volume 4) CRISIS madegifts,whichhighlightthe Society'sbisonsymbol. Storerevenues
• A GuidetoHistoricKalispell support improved access and care ofourcollections and records.
(Montana Mainstreet lofcwofdbvAlvmMlo%«phvIr
Series,Volume5) ImprovingAccess:Through NewExhibits attheMontana
• WheelBoatson theMissouri: Historical SocietyMuseum in Helena
The Atkinson-O'Fallon • "Life on the UpperMissouri:The Art ofKarl Bodmer" introduced-
Expeditionof1824-26 visitorsto the region's landscapes andMontana's original residents
• Fifty YearsaftertheBigSky: as Lewisand Clarksawthem.
New Perspectives on the • "ALegacyin Bronze:The SculptureofRobertM. Scriver"celebrated
Fiction andFilms ofA. B. ouracquisition ofBob Scriver's magnificentcollection.
Guthrie,Jr. • "It's aMatterofTime:The PocketWatch inAmerican History,"our
• BattleforButte(reprint) newestpermanentexhibit,islocatedon the thirdfloor.
• "Celebrating Fifty Years ofthe Archie Bray Foundation" offered a
smalltributetoan importantculruralheritage partnerin Helena.
ImprovingAccess-Through Historic Preservation ImprovingAccess forMontana Students andTeachers:
Programs andAssistance Through Programs,Tours, Camps, Footlockers, and Slides
The State Historic Preservation Office oversaw the listing of • Weadded"TheDiaryofaVictorianGirl,"toourrepertoireofseven
twenty-one new Montana properties in the National Register of otherguided tours developed forstudents.
Historic Places: • Toenhanceafamily'sabilitytoenjoyandlearnfromourexhibits,we
produced abrochure,"Visitingthe Museum with Children."
CrowCreekWaterDitch,BroadwaterCount}' • We developed and placed online four Curriculum Guides for high
FrombergBridge,CarbonCounty school history teachers and their students, all based on theme
MasonicTemple (GreatFalls),CascadeCounty issues of Montana The Magazine of Western History. Check
MorelBridge,DeerLodgeCounty
www.montanahistoricalsocierv.org/departments/education.
AnacondaMultipleProperties,DeerLodge County
GloverCabin
BrunswickHouse
SheehanBoardinghouse
LorraineApartments
GraniteApartments
JamesV.CollinsHouse
BranscombeAutoMachine Shop
LundwallBuilding(Bozeman),GallatinCountv
MethodistEpiscopalChurchofThree Forks,Gallatin County
Harrison Lake PatrolCabin,GlacierNational Park
LincolnCreekSnowshoeCabin,GlacierNationalPark
SlaytonMercantile (Lavina),GoldenVallevCounty
Wicks-SeilerResidence (Helena),Lewis andClarkCounty-
LenoxFlats(Missoula),MissoulaCounty
UniversityAreaHistoric District (Missoula),MissoulaCounty[oversix
hundredbuildings]
CharterOakMineandMill,Powell County
WolfMountainsBattlefield,RosebudCounty
YouthSummerActivities, Societyfrontlawn
A
small increase in federal funding for historic preservation
allowedthe StateHistoricPreservationOfficetogrant,onamatching
• TheMontanaPublicBroadcastingStationfilmed the Society'sthird
basis, $46,000 to the following bricks-and-mortar preservation proj-
ects: Elks Lodge, Livingston; Grabow Hotel, Livingston; Northern annualHistoryCampformiddleschoolstudentsheldinVirginia
RFoacckaideesImHperroitvaegmeenCtenPtreojre,ctF,oMritleMsisCsiotuy;laC;opDpoewrnKtionwgnMaMnislieosnC(iWt.v • WeCictoy.mpMleotnetdanChaarPlBieSRuasisreeldltAhretparnodgrSaymmbionlssporfiMnogn2t0a0n2a., two new
A. ClarkMansion),Butte;Thompson-Hickman CountyLibraryand footlockers forstatewide schooluse.
Museum,VirginiaCity.
The Office also awarded $30,720 in federal historic preservation ImprovingAccess:Through Programs, Conferences, and
funds for community historic building surveys in Great Falls and TechnicalAssistance
Missoula. • Every day of the Fifty-seventh Montana Assembly, senators and
representatives learned about "that day in legislative history,"
courtesy ofessays provided by the Montana Historical Society.
Thatresearch is nowcaptured in the booklet CapitolCapsules.
• The Archives staffcreated a "Women in the 1972 Constitutional
Convention" display for a combined legislative and Governor's
Office celebration ofWomen's HistoryMonth,March 2001.
• Fifty consultants and state and federal agency representatives
attendedthePreservationOffice'sAugust2000workshoponhow
to follow federal and statepreservationlegislation efficiently.
• We joined West Yellowstone museum and preservation organiza-
tions to host the Society's Twenty-seventh Annual Montana
History Conference featuring"The Lure ofthe Parks."
• The year was alive with monthly lectures, author talks, workshops,
summer"Under theTent" programs foryoungsters, theWestern
RendezvousofArt,andmuchmore.Astheyearbegan,Montana
Historical SocietyPress author Susan BadgerDoyle completed a
Montana speaking tour about her compilation of BozemanTrail
memoirs,Journeysto theLandofGold:EmigrantDiariesfrom the
Bozeman Trail, 1863-66. As theyearended, Press authorJerome
Herd Bullwelcomesvisitorsinallweather A. Greene began a Pacific Northwest speaking tour on his book
NezPereeSummer1877,whichincluded ten Montana stops.
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• The year's M—ontana Historic Preservation poster titled—"A Gift to SignificantAcquisitionsWeWillWanttoMake
Montana" an annual preservation educational tool featured Accessible toYou
the restored Capitolbarrelvault. • RoyWells Family: South Central Montana sheep shearingand rail-
roadphotographs
ImprovingAccess:Through Partnerships • SamTreloar:Collectionofmusic,musicalinstruments,andmemora-
• WejoinedtheHelenaAreaChamberofCommerceandDowntown biliafrom Butte
Helena, participated in Helena's summer events, and became a • Congressman RickHill: Congressional Papers
partnerincommunity planning. • GovernorThomasJudge:Governor'spapers
• Our Photograph Archives staffcompleted cataloging the Warren • OliveJohnston Henryfamily: 1950s and 1960s Helenaphotographs
McGee collection of Northern Pacific Railwav photographs • BarbaraRichardson:Varietyofhistoricalartifacts includingclothes,
dolls,and doll clothes aswell as photos and archival material
• Pauline Slade Wadsworth and Caroline Slade Hicks: Broadwater
Hotel items
" Fifty-seventh Legislature: Records including approximately thirty-
three feetofpapermaterials and overthree thousand audiotapes.
11In allthe changes that weface in
Montana, we are close in time and
in spirit to the loggers, ranch wives,
cowboys, and miners who made
Mo?itana what
it is.
ReinstallationofDrivingthe GoldenSpike Asyou collect andpreserve some
ofthese stories, Ihope thatyou think
with fundingtorcontracted assistance from the Northern Pacific
RailwavHistoricalAssociation. hardabout what aspects ofMontana
• ThedoUwSinBadnokwnintoHwenlenHaelgeanvaeftohreSSoocciieettyyparcecessesnttaotiiotsnsdiosnplaSycrwivienr-, you want topreserve, notjust in boxes
newMuseum Storeproducts,and more. in the Montana HistoricalSociety,
• Society Museum employees worked with the Department of
Administration throughout the Capitol renovation process to but in the wayyou liveyour life.
safeguard Capitol art and completed their special stewardship
work with the safe return ofAmedeeJoullin's painting, Driving
theGolden Spike,to the head ofthe Grand Staircase. JudyMartz speaking to Montana Heritage Projects
studentand teachers,April 4,2001
OthersWho HelpedUs Make HistoryAccessible: Grants
andAwards
• Claiborne/Ortenberg Foundation funded the Montana Heritage
Project,providingheritage education in rural Montana
• Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation provided scholarships
forcollegestudentstogivepapersattheannualMontanaHistory
Conference
• Montana Cultural and Aesthetic Trust provided one grant to the
Society tor a KoreanWaroral historyproject and one for abook
and exhibit on the Farm Security Administration photographs
ofMontana
• Northwest Rendezvous Group of Artists/Citv of Helena Civic
Center Board sharedWestern Rendezvous ofArt proceeds with
us forart acquisition.
• Institute of Museum and Library Services provided a two-year
grant to the Museum Program fordisaster and emergency plan-
ning,catalogdata entry, and live andweboutreach.
• Bureau ot Land Management shared the costs for the development
andofaStateAntiquitiesDatabase Development Exhibitopening,NativeAmericanDancersandDrummers
Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2010 with funding from
Montana State Library
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Montana Historical SocietyAnnual Base Budget: $3,627,830
Funding Expenditures
&
Cultural Aesthetic
Donations4% Grants1%
AccommodationTax
5%
FixedExpences*
S228.910
PublicOutreach
&Education
S193.142
'FixedCostsinclude:Rent,Insurance,CapitolGroundsMaintenance
ProfileoftheSociety Montana visitorsmakevisitingahistoricor
culturalcenteroneoftheirtop threepriorities.
• Governedbyafifteen-memberBoardofTrusteesappointed
bytheGovernor. InstituteofTourismandRecreation Research
• Organizedintofiveprograms:Library-Archives;Museum; UniversityofMontana.
Publications;Preservation;andAgencyManagement.
PublicEducationandOutreachspanallprograms.
• Functionswithfifty-twofull-timeandtwelvepart-time
employeesandanannualbudgetofS3.6million. ProgramsAttachedtotheSociety
• Publishesaquarterlywesternhistoryjournal,anewsletter,
andthreetosixbookseachyear. • Montana's LewisandClarkCommission,anorganization
• ListstwotothreedozenMontanapropertiesintheNational attachedtothe Society,completedits Strategicand
RegisterofHistoricPlacesandsparksfivetotenmillion FundraisingPlans,securedlegislativeapprovalforLewisand
dollarsinhistoricpreservationrehabilitationworkthrough Clarklicenseplates,and,incooperationwith Societystaff,
taxcreditincentivesannually. providedcommunitieswithguidanceonhowtounifyand
• HoldsintrustforMontana:100,000books;400,000historic improve Lewis andClarksignage aroundMontana.
photographs;16,000maps;2,000oralhistoryinterviews;
13,000cubicfeetofarchivalmaterial;45,000artifacts; • TheMontanaHeritageCommission,anorganizationattached
and5,000piecesofartwork;35,000inventoryfilesforall tothe SocietytooverseeVirginiaandNevadaCitiesand
knownMontanaarchaeological,historic,andarchitectural similarat-risksites,securedadditionaltederal fundingfor
sitesand23,000culturalresourcesurveyreports;500,000 historicbuildingpreservation,hiredavolunteercoordinator,
artifactsand248buildingsinVirginiaandNevadaCities. andhosted nineteenth-centurvlife-styletrainingforfamilies
• OwnstheOriginalGovernor'sMansioninHelenaand involvedinFrontierHome,aPBS historicalrealityseries.
managesitwithassistancefromacitizenrestorationboard.
• Responsible,asowners,forpreservationofstate-owned • TheMontanaHeritageProject,fundedbythe LizClaiborne
buildingsandartifactsatVirginiaandNevadacities; andArtOrtenbergFoundationenabledhighschoolstudents
theMossMansioninBillings;andtheDalyMansionin andteachersinBigfork,Browning,Chester,Corvallis,
Hamilton. Dillon,Eureka,Harlowton,Lewistown,Libby, Ronan,
• Qualifiesunderfederaltaxcodestoreceivetax-deductible Roundup,Simms,andTownsendtoaskcriticalquestion
charitablegiftsandactivelysolicitsprivateandpublic oftheirregion'spast,conductprimarysourceresearch,and
grants. provide theircommunitieswithprograms,oralhistorytapes,
exhibits,andarchives.
Challenges Met & Challenges Ahead
DearFriends:
I am again pleased to put the 2000-2001 Montana Still, the challenges thatwe face remain
Historical Society's Annual Report into your mailbox enormous:
andyour hands.
I grew up hearing the adage "Help comes to • Ourfifty-year-oldbuildingremains
those who help themselves." This year we tried inadequate in most every way from
hard to live that motto. storage to public program space.
Calendar year 2001 began with The backlog of catalog and index infor-
the Fifty-seventh Montana legis- mation needing to be made available elec-
We
lative session. prepared sta- tronicallyremains overwhelming.
tistics, graphics, examples, and • Our web page is being creatively
illustrations to reveal the extent of and bravely maintained by a battery of
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the Society's need for staff, space, historians not information technology
and equipment. While state budgets specialists.
did not permit funding all our requests, • The services you request and several
the Society appreciated the legislators' thoughtful unfunded mandates are still being accom-
We
consideration ot our needs. were especially \ plished by the same number ofstaffthatwe had
glad lor funding that helps us respond to Mon- in 1985.
tana communities and their growing requests • Our ability to travel to local communities
for aid as they prepare for the Lewis and Clark remains very limited by minimal operating
Bicentennial. funds.
I invested many hours in—nurturing our
Montana History Foundation the Society's I Th.„,kv„„ S,„n„,hetvear„feMhuslnstic
nonprofit fundraising partner. This year, our support as we workhard to put Montana and
fifteen-year-old, rejuvenated Foundation hired theWest's historyintoyourhands.We lookfor-
a development director and a membership coordinator, ward to your continued support and assistance as we seekto
launched a newsletter titled Legacy, and teamed up with improve our stewardship ofand access to Montana history.
other partners to build a warehouse that the Society will
lease from the Foundation for the Bob Scriver collection.
The Foundation has also launched a major campaign enti- Sincerely,
tled "History Runs through It" that is designed to help us
with our educational outreachwork.
As this year ended, our Montana Historical Society
Board of Trustees asked us to analyze the fees we charge
for services throughout the agency. The study compared
our fees to those of sister agencies and launched two Arnold Olsen, Ph.D.
separate, professional surveys ofuser needs, interests, and Director
willingness to pay.
MAY l ft
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