Friday Photo: Forsyth Flood

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 76-26 F50

The Yellowstone River flooded in 1918, and Forsyth residents coped with the help of a few boats. Walter Dean took this photograph of the event.

Friday Photo: Cousin Jack Race Horses

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, ST 001.072

The description included with this stereograph states that: "A Cousin Jack is a person from Cornwall." Perhaps this is insight into the humor that photographer N. A. Forsyth intended in his caption. He took the photo in Butte between 1901 and 1911.

Friday Photo

Happy Friday! March is Women's History Month, so today seems like the perfect day to share this wonderful photo.
 

From Montana Views. Original in Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 76-26.

Two unidentified women in bathing suits clown on the shore, probably near Forsyth, circa 1900. The photographer was Walter Dean, Jr. I would just love to know more about these women, wouldn't you?