Montana Moments

Montana Historical Society  Photograph Archives, 950-354 Are you ready for Thanksgiving dinner? I'd say this young man isn't. I ...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, ST 001.072 The description included with this stereograph states that: "A Cousin J...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 90-87.N041 Alma and Esther McMurray pose with their pet cat circa 1900-1910. But loo...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 90-87.31-1 Gusta Magnusen Braley and her children, Ida and Clare, sat for a portrai...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, Lot 26 Box 8 Folder 5, Mines and Mining photograph collection Happy Independence Day! T...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, PAc 82-19 World Doll Day is tomorrow. These children look ready to celebrate! Unfortuna...

Butte, the mining camp that became an industrial hub, was as unique for its children as it was an anomaly. Copper king W. A. Clark’s Columbi...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archvies, ST 001.135 Columbia Gardens in Butte boasted one of the nation’s first Ferris wheels as...

When Fred Kuphal was a little boy in Germany, he told his mother that his teacher took a goose down from the wall, stroked it with a stick, ...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, H-3285 Children ski in Yellowstone National Park in 1894. F. Jay Haynes took the phot...

One of the coldest holidays on record in Montana was that of 1884 when temperatures dipped to 30 degrees below zero. That Christmas Eve ther...

Montana Historical Society  Photograph Archives, PAc 81-34.2732 Great Falls firemen brought joy to local children from their toy hospita...

A. I. “Daddy” Reeves came to Helena in 1892 and became a Christmas institution. The Reeves Music House brought many fine musicians and music...

Montana Historical Society   Photograph Archives , 981-588 When he photographed these girls from a dryland farm on Little Pumpkin Creek,...

Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives , PAc 89-38 F5 During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration funded lib...

Red bricks mark two time capsules that lie beneath the sidewalk along Warren Street in front of Central School. Children ceremoniously place...

While yesterday's post presents one view, here is another recollection of the same celebration. In her reminiscence, Girl from the Gulc...

Elizabeth Farmer Smith wrote wonderful descriptions of her childhood at Garnet in the 1920s. Her father was a mining engineer and the family...

Beloved Salish elder Louis Adams recently shared the story of Sack Woman with a group of high school students at Fales Flat in the Selway-Bi...

Epidemics were fairly commonplace throughout the nineteenth century and knew no social boundaries. Rich or poor, no person was immune. Typho...