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^ s -v 353.77 H6MHSAR dntana Historical Society's 2001 Report l 1 - 2000 2001 1 $ 2867 t,WA*Y — ^ -4Uvl»J' iV' *i ;..-.•< .<*- *.vA£* UT 1 1 v 4 ii A .- W±%. ,t Improving acces to Montana's Treasures s » \f*T"u_3><. ^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, , 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 — so thatitis accessibletoyou. historicalresources and havebeenvigorous in ourefforts to Juggling these missions is no small feat. Untilwe safely make them accessible toyou. MontanaStaleLibrary Improving access to Montana's Treasures 3 °864 1003 9868 7 CtitEBRAjGy^ 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. " • 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 http://www.archive.org/details/montanahistorica2001mont 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 — 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 CoverImage: Above: AtLemhi,byRobertF.Morgan,1988, OilonCanvas RecentAcquisition, ContemporaryBlackfeetBeadedFlag (LewisandClarkintheBeaverheadMountains,July1805) BagbyDenelleParsons,Browning MontanaHistoricalSociety•225NorthRobertsStreet•P.O.Box201201 Helena,Montana59620-1201•406-444-2694 www.montanahistoricalsocietv.org

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