Edward H. Boos photographs

Edward H. Boos photographs, circa 1900-1908

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Boos, Edward H., 1877-1937
Title: Edward H. Boos photographs
Dates: circa 1900-1908 (inclusive)
19001908
Quantity: 3.0 linear feet, (305 items)
Collection Number: Mss 346 (collection)
Summary: Edward H. Boos was a photographer from Missoula, Montana. This collection includes 305 glass plate negatives, flexible film negatives, and prints created by Boos between 1900 and 1908. This photographic collection constitutes one of the most extensive and detailed visual records of the Missoula, Mission, and Flathead valleys at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Repository: University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
32 Campus Dr. #9936
59812-9936
Missoula, MT
Telephone: 406-243-2053
library.archives@umontana.edu
Access Restrictions: Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana--Missoula.
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for creating this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historic Publications and Records Commission. Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Edward Boos was born in Kentucky on April 1, 1877. His family moved to Helena, Montana, while he was in grade school. He attended the University of Montana at Missoula in 1896 but did not complete a degree. In that same year Boos began working as a freelance correspondent for several newspapers in the Missoula area. During the summer of 1897 Boos accompanied the U.S. Army 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps on its experimental overland trip from Fort Missoula to St. Louis, Missouri. The company traversed 1,900 miles over difficult terrain and through taxing weather conditions in an attempt prove bicycles could replace horses for troop transport and reconnaissance. Boos submitted accounts of the expedition as they traveled. His accounts were prepared for the Daily Missoulian, but some were also published by newspapers along the route and a few were subsequently reprinted by national and international newspapers.

After the Bicycle Corps expedition Boos continued to produce photographs for western Montana newspapers. Sometime around 1900 he purchased his own camera and began photographing people and landscapes in the Missoula and Flathead valleys. Boos was particularly interested in recording life among the Kootenai, Salish and Pend'Oreille families of the Flathead Reservation as the 20th century began. He conducted a series of photographic portrait sessions at various sites across the reservation, mostly completed between spring and fall of 1905. According to a 1935 newspaper story, many of these portraits were developed at night under a canvas cover so the photographer could share the portraits directly with his subjects. Throughout the time period Boos continued to photograph landscapes and events in the Missoula and Flathead Lake areas.

In 1906 Boos accepted an advertising manager position with the Missoula Mercantile Company and married Annie Hammond, cousin of MMC co-owner Andrew Hammond. Edward Boos ended his newspaper work but continued to periodically take photographs. Boos remained with the Missoula Mercantile Company for the next thirty-one years. In September 1935 an "Indian Jubilee" celebration was held in St. Ignatius, Montana. This event was the first public exhibition and print sale of Boos' Flathead Reservation portraits. Edward H. Boos died of a heart attack on September 26, 1937.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection includes 305 glass plate and modern film negatives and prints created by Edward H. Boos between 1900 and 1908. This photographic collection constitutes one of the most extensive and detailed visual records of the Missoula, Mission, and Flathead valleys at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Boos' Flathead Reservation portraits document particularly insightful details regarding the lifestyle, possessions, and landscapes of tribal members just prior to the 1910 Allotment Act--an action that opened vast portions of the reservation to non-tribal settlement. Some photographs were not inscribed with captions prior to donation to the K. Ross Toole Archives and several others were inscribed with only cursory identifiers. However, most photographs were inscribed with various combinations of the subjects' tribal name (in phonetic transcription), loose English translation, and Flathead Agency register names. In several instances Boos photographed the same individuals over a number of years. Among these individuals, mostly young males, several were given new tribal names within the span of Boos' portrait series (evidenced by changes in the captions attached to each photograph).

In contrast to the Salish, Kootenai, and Pend'Oreille photographs, Boos' Flathead, Mission, and Missoula valleys series is a mix of broad landscape images, community events, and portraits. This series primarily contains photographs of the Flathead and Missoula valleys; however, it also includes a few photographs from the Mission valley as well as one from near Frenchtown, MT, looking east towards Missoula. The landscape photographs in this series offer a significant record of topography and general vegetative matrices during the early stages of community expansion into the foothills of the Missoula and Flathead valleys. The series also records some common leisure activities among western Montanans at the turn of the 20th Century, as well as glimpses of Missoula community events. The Victoria, B.C. series contains photographs from an undated vacation.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. Copyright not transferred to The University of Montana.

Preferred Citation

[Photograph number], Edward H. Boos Photographs, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana--Missoula.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in three series:

Series I: Flathead Indian Pictures, 1900-1907

Series II: Flathead, Mission, and Missoula Valleys, 1900-1908

Series III: Victoria, British Columbia, undated

Location of Originals

The original negatives for 73 items in this collection are located with the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department (DPL). The photographs at DPL are listed in the "Flathead Indian Pictures" series within this collection. The following list provides a cross-reference to DPL possessions. Items are organized according to their K. Ross Toole Archives photograph number with cross-reference to the corresponding DPL photo number. For both repositories most caption information was inscribed prior to donation. In nearly every instance, caption information is significantly different on the K. Ross Toole Archives' photograph than on the originals at the Denver Public Library.

75-6082: DPL BS-121

77-45: DPL BS-49

78-109: DPL BS-87

78-114: DPL BS-36

78-116: DPL BS-44

78-117: DPL BS-90

78-120: DPL BS-74

78-121: DPL BS-76

78-123: DPL BS-108

78-125: DPL BS-107

78-126: DPL BS-26

78-127: DPL BS-25

78-129: DPL BS-20

78-130: DPL BS-19

78-134: DPL BS-27

78-136: DPL BS-17

78-137: DPL BS-64

78-139: DPL BS-100

78-140: DPL BS-41

78-141: DPL BS-40

78-143: DPL BS-67

78-147: DPL BS-116

78-148: DPL BS-31

78-149: DPL BS-42

78-150: DPL BS-29

78-152: DPL BS-32

78-153: DPL BS-71

78-155: DPL BS-72

78-156: DPL BS-101

78-157: DPL BS-14

78-163: DPL BS-113

78-164: DPL BS-110

78-165: DPL BS-112

78-168: DPL BS-15

78-170: DPL BS-92

78-172: DPL BS-94

78-173: DPL BS-81

78-174: DPL BS-13

78-175: DPL BS-84

78-178: DPL BS-79

78-181: DPL BS-83

78-183: DPL BS-104

78-184: DPL BS-11

78-185: DPL BS-126

78-189: DPL BS-10

78-190: DPL BS-12

78-191: DPL BS-9

78-198: DPL BS-129

78-202: DPL BS-93

78-203: DPL BS-122

78-205: DPL BS-37

78-206: DPL BS-35

78-209: DPL BS-33

78-211: DPL BS-8

78-213: DPL BS-68

78-227: DPL BS-119

78-228: DPL BS-120

78-229: DPL BS-124

78-230: DPL BS-59

78-235: DPL BS-5

78-237: DPL BS-2

78-238: DPL BS-58

78-239: DPL BS-60

78-241: DPL BS-55

78-243: DPL BS-53

78-244: DPL BS-56

78-245: DPL BS-123

78-253: DPL BS-91

78-254: DPL BS-125

78-255: DPL BS-109

78-256: DPL BS-6

78-257: DPL BS-88

78-258: DPL BS-96

Custodial History

The full collection remained in the possession of the Missoula Mercantile Company following Mr. Boos' death. Records provide contradictory information regarding the exact disposition of the collection. Denver Public Library records indicate the 126 negatives and four prints they own were purchased directly from Annie Boos, his widow, in 1938. Much later correspondence with Mr. Boos' niece indicate that Walter McLeod, President of the Missoula Mercantile Company at the time of Boos' death, managed disposition of the collection - selling 129 prints and glass plate negatives to the Denver Public Library in the early 1940s and donating the remaining glass plate negatives to the University of Montana.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Walter McLeod, 1972.

Processing Note

Walter McLeod created the original arrangement structure, applying a simple consecutive number system regardless of the year the photograph was created or the image subject. Archives staff processed the negatives and prints between 1972 and 1978. During archives processing a new photograph numbering system was assigned. The collection was re-processed in 2003. In reprocessing, both Mr. McLeod's and Archives numbering systems were retained, but the collection was separated into three series based upon subject matter. Original negatives were identified and labeled separately from copies. All negatives and prints were cataloged and extensively re-described.

Related Materials

The Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department retains a collection of 126 glass plate negatives and four additional prints. Scanned images of all prints are available on-line from the Denver Public Library web site (http://gowest.coalliance.org/). The Montana Historical Society and the Smithsonian Institution retain prints, eleven and seven respectively, from negatives in both the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department and K. Ross Toole Archives collections.

K. Ross Toole Archives also holds two photos titled "Indian Dancing Men" and "Pielle-A Kootenai" in mats that are signed by Boos and include small pencil drawings.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I: Flathead Indian Pictures, 1900-1907Return to Top

Most photographs in this series were inscribed with various combinations of the subjects' tribal name (in phonetic transcription), loose English translation, and Flathead Agency register names. In several instances Boos photographed the same individuals over a number of years. Among these individuals, mostly young males, several were given new tribal names within the span of Boos' portrait series (evidenced by changes in the captions attached to each photograph). Text between quotation marks is Edward Boos' original description of the photographs. Text in parentheses is subsequent description from original photograph envelopes that may have been recorded by Boos, Walter McLeod, or early archives staff. The original glass plate negative for 78-214 is broken, inhibiting reproduction quality.

Description	Dates
72-20 - Boos # 201: Buffalo In the Shadow of the Missions"
72-192 - No Number: "Chief Charlo and Secretary Garfield and their sons" (same as 78-226)	August, 1907
75-6080 - Boos # 609: "Cla-at-la" Rivias
75-6082 - Boos # 629: "Cheyenne Indian Dance"
75-6091 - Boos # 613: "Eneas Conko (Go-Go)" making up
77-43 - Boos # 219: Running Wolf "Isadore Red Woodpecker" This man's legal name was Isadore Three Woodcocks. Idenification information provided by Troy Felsman in 2022.
77-44 - Boos # 625: "Elem-wh-skil-em-me (Chief Eagle)"
77-45 - Boos # 620: "Francois Dead Horse" (La-es-polsten, Snchil-zas-Kagel)
77-216 - Boos # 747: "Chief Moise"
78-105 - Boos # 2: "Eneas" (Colville Indian)
78-106 - Boos # 4: Lucy and At-A-La-Ee
78-107 - Boos # 7: Pierre Paul
78-108 - Boos # 8: stalking game
78-109 - Boos # 9: "Pilipe" Kut-tum-ski-ee (Pend'Orielle)
78-110 - Boos # 10: Eneas and Lo-mee" Lo-ma-kai-she
78-111 - Boos # 11: American Horse and At-o-in
78-112 - Boos # 12: Marie and At-a-la-ee (papoose)
78-113 - Boos # 13: Kut-la-in-sue (boy)
78-114 - Boos # 14: "Chief Kae-kae-che"
78-115 - Boos # 16: Mrs. Lat-at-tee
78-116 - Boos # 17: "A Mission Group" [family portrait, near St. Ignatius Mission]
78-117 - Boos # 20: "Joe Lat-at-tee"
78-118 - Boos # 21A: White Bull "Two boys and White Bull"
78-119 - Boos # 21B: "Marie"
78-120 - Boos # 23: Agath "Skomelton - maiden"
78-121 - Boos # 24: Sam "Kut-la-ensu-ken and family"
78-122 - Boos # 26: Kut-la-en-sue family
78-123 - Boos # 29: Louise and children
78-124 - Boos # 30: Louise and child
78-125 - Boos # 31: "Cla-at-la"
78-126 - Boos # 33: "Mot-a-len, Eneas, Isabel"
78-127 - Boos # 34: Souette "Beaverfoot"
78-128 - Boos # 35: "Lou-elle (boy)
78-129 - Boos # 40: Paul Isadore "Skukusse - boy"
78-130 - Boos # 42: "Chief Joseph Standing Bear" (Judge)
78-131 - Boos # 43: "Mot-a-len"
78-132 - Boos # 44: "Lah tat tee (He Runs Lame)"
78-133 - Boos # 45: Mat-a-len
78-134 - Boos # 46: "Lucy and children" American Horse At-o-em and At-a-la-ee [from negative: Wife of Lo-me Standing Bear]
78-135 - Boos # 47: "Alex-on Kal-lo-cun"
78-136 - Boos # 49: "Marie Grizzley Bear"
78-137 - Boos # 50: "Smgeichin (Grizzly Bear) and Marie"
78-138 - Boos # 51: Alexan
78-139 - Boos # 52: Antler [portrait of a man]
78-140 - Boos # 55: Joseph "Sel-eps-to and" wife "Col-let"
78-141 - Boos # 57: Kul-kul-un-cha (Red Bull) U-lu-em-ce-ee (Iron Moon) "Red Bull and Iron Moon"
78-142 - Boos # 59: "Josephine Red Legging and children", Pete and Mat-a-len Cha-kul-ku-she-ma (Red Legging)
78-143 - Boos # 62: "Antione Kiser and Bigmouth Paul"
78-144 - Boos # 63: Isabell with a child in a papoose
78-145 - Boos # 64: Alex and children
78-146 - Boos # 65: Marie
78-147 - Boos # 67: Joseph "Sel-eps-to"
78-148 - Boos # 68: Mat-a-len and Rosalea "Grandmother and Grandchild"
78-149 - Boos # 69: Papoose and Cayuse [young child on a horse]
78-150 - Boos # 70: The Casino Players, "Antoine and Michel Kaiser"
78-151 - Boos # 71: Sue-sett, Marie and Angeline
78-152 - Boos # 72: "Sin-sa-la"
78-153 - Boos # 73: Nicola "Pix-on-che-la Hoit (Hunts Alone)"
78-154 - Boos # 75: Joseph Sleps-to
78-155 - Boos # 76: "Nicola Pix-on-cha-la-hoit"
78-156 - Boos # 77: "Agath and Angeline"
78-157 - Boos # 78: "Isabelle with papoose" and child
78-158 - Boos # 79: "William, Joseph, Antler"
78-159 - Boos # 80A: Papoose in trees, left arm down [child in papoose, leaning on tree]
78-160 - Boos # 80B: Papoose in trees [child in papoose, leaning on tree]
78-161 - Boos # 81: "Chines-zkoakai Ogtelt (weeping child)"
78-162 - Boos # 82: Edward H. Boos
78-163 - Boos # 84: Four Children [family encampment]
78-164 - Boos # 85: Three children on a horse
78-165 - Boos # 86: "Mas-a-le"
78-166 - Boos # 87: "Al-let Lat-at-tee"
78-167 - Boos # 88: "Johnnie Lp-plapele (small bird)"
78-168 - Boos # 89: "Queal Pitchen (Red Horn)"
78-169 - Boos # 90: "Antoine E-lum-ski-em and family"
78-170 - Boos # 94: Mattie Suppee
78-171 - Boos # 96: "Snots-ee (earrings)"
78-172 - Boos # 99: "Agath"
78-173 - Boos # 101: "Queal Pitchen (Red Horn) and Antoine"
78-174 - Boos # 103: "Alex Bonaparte" [and unidentified man, both on horseback]
78-175 - Boos # 105: "Chief Louison"
78-176 - Boos # 106: Chief Louison
78-177 - Boos # 110: "Days End"
78-178 - Boos # 111: Michael
78-179 - Boos # 112: "Airing the baby" [woman and child on horseback]
78-180 - Boos # 114: "White Bull"
78-181 - Boos # 120: "Bigmouth Paul and chums"
78-182 - Boos # 123: "Sku-kus-se, Chines-Chemteusi (boy on horseback)"
78-183 - Boos # 124: Young Charlo [man and child on horseback, St. Ignatius Mission]
78-184 - Boos # 131: Kuilze, Red Blanket
78-185 - Boos # 146: Paul Lumphrey, Louis Left Hand, Chines-e-m, Peter Stevens "Young braves"
78-186 - Boos # 202: "N-goeit-spielgu-ial (many tents in a circle)"
78-187 - Boos # 205-206: "The Parade"
78-188 - Boos # 207: The camp meat ration being distributed, Lo-me Joseph on wagon
78-189 - Boos # 208: "Big Pielle"
78-190 - Boos # 209: "Paul and Den-a-lu (Spokanes)"
78-191 - Boos # 210: Ready for the Squaw Parade [three women on horseback]
78-192 - Boos # 213: "Chines-telkami (Indian Dance)"
78-193 - Boos # 214: "Nicola See-la"
78-194 - Boos # 217: "Sin-se-la, White Brant, Alex-on" Sam Moody (Nat-yat-mas-hi-hi, White Bird), 1905
78-195 - Boos # 220: Andrew
78-196 - Boos # 221: "Isaac Little Horn and granddaughter"
78-197 - Boos # 224: "Agnes" Pablo
78-198 - Boos # 225: "The Dancers' Dressing Room"
78-199 - Boos # 226: "Squaw on parade" one of them is Mrs. Joseph Peon
78-200 - Boos # 229: "Squaw parade" [large gathering in clearing, Mission Valley]
78-201 - Boos # 230: The surroundings [large gathering in clearing, Mission Valley]
78-202 - Boos # 601: Antoine Nianmee "Chines-zaulshi (the bather)"
78-203 - Boos # 602: Lo-me Standing Bear "Koli-t-iviot (Hard Worker) Lomee Joseph"
78-204 - Boos # 604: "Jerome Nicolla"
78-205 - Boos # 605: Sam Moody "White Brant, wife, Sam Finley"
78-206 - Boos # 606: "Sam Moody and wife and Sam Finley"
78-207 - Boos # 607: Cla-at-la
78-208 - Boos # 610: Sam Moody "Wat-yat-mas Hi-hi (White Brant)"
78-209 - Boos # 611: "Preparing for the squaw parade" [saddling horses, large camp]
78-210 - Boos # 621: Enias Conkos family - generations admiring baby
78-211 - Boos # 623: "Skelgu-Es-iaamilsh" (Flathead Indian Council)
78-212 - Boos # 626: Frank Camille's family
78-213 - Boos # 628: "Charles Molmon (Mormon)" Mot-la-mon
78-214 - Boos # 629A: Dancing Cheyenne (neg.) [ceremonial dance]
78-215 - Boos # 629B: Dancing Cheyenne (pos.) [ceremonial dance]
78-216 - Boos # 629C: Dancing Cheyenne [ceremonial dance]
78-217 - Boos # 630: "Joseph Standing Bear and Lucy"
78-218 - Boos # 631: "Big Pielle and squaw"
78-219 - Boos # 633: Bread making, Louise and family
78-220 - Boos # 637: Pierre Paul "Flint (Medicine Man)"
78-221 - Boos # 638: "Lo-mee kae kae che and Agath" son of Chief Kai-kai-she
78-222 - Boos # 639: "Seh-la"
78-223 - Boos # 642: "Chief Yellow Mountain"
78-224 - Boos # 701: Mose Vanderberg, Lasa, Chief Charlo in plug hat "Turnout to meet Secretary Garfield"
78-225 - Boos # 702: "Chief Charlos Slem-hi-kay (Little Claw of Grizzly Bear)"
78-226 - Boos # 710: "Chief Charlo and Secretary Garfield and their sons" (same as 72-192)	August, 1907
78-227 - Boos # 712: [Unidentified man] "... and Mrs. Wm. Irvine"
78-228 - Boos # 713: Mose Vandenberg "Yellow Rock"
78-229 - Boos # 714: "I-kauliet-s'shensh (Yellow Rock)"
78-230 - Boos # 719: "John Kee-sah (One Head)"
78-231 - Boos # 720: "Louis Molmon and Choos-le-ne (Walking on one side)"
78-232 - Boos # 723: Louis Molmon and Choos-le-ne (Walking on one side)
78-233 - Boos # 724: "Indian Sumer Kitchen" [woman and child preparing a meal]
78-234 - Boos # 725: Scoo-nay and boy
78-235 - Boos # 726: "Scoo-nay and family"
78-236 - Boos # 727: "Es-nshimin Melkanups (Chief Eagle)"
78-237 - Boos # 729: Louis Charlemain - "Ies-plchmim (He rolls around)"
78-238 - Boos # 730: "Peter Magpie"
78-239 - Boos # 731: "Peter An'n (Magpie) and Sarah"
78-240 - Boos # 732: "The Woman Does the Work" Mary Walk in the Water (Chines Nickomi)
78-241 - Boos # 733: Indian camp life, Mose Vandenberg and wife "Indian Serenade"
78-242 - Boos # 737: "La-moos" Joe Lamoose, wife and child
78-243 - Boos # 739: Joe Lamoose, died 3/24/31, age 85 "La-moos"
78-244 - Boos # 741: "Se-mo"
78-245 - Boos # 742: "John Eneas, Micheal Kiser, Patrick and John Finley"
78-246 - Boos # 744: Alex Kinser in dance outfit
78-247 - Boos # 745: Paul Lumphrey, Louis Left Hand, Chim-e-en Paul, Peter Stinins
78-248 - Boos # 748: "Alex Big Knife"
78-249 - Boos # 750: Mose and Mrs. Vandenberg
78-250 - Boos # 751: Dr. Parsons and group
78-251 - no number: The Shrine [Christian shrine in thick vegetation]
78-252 - no number: Fishing on Pend'Oreille River
78-253 - Boos # 802: ["Vi-tal" - from DPL caption]
78-254 - Boos # 803: ["Lucy and At-a-la-ee" - from DPL caption]
78-255 - Boos # 804: [lodge under construction]
78-256 - Boos # 805: [Family Camp, Mission Valley]
78-257 - Boos # 806: Marie and Juan Pierre
78-258 - Boos # 100: Pielle (Kootenai)
78-259 - no number: 3 generations of ladies
78-260 - no number: [Two men sitting before a ...] Sweat lodge
78-261 - no number: Edward Boos
78-262 - no number: Edward Boos
78-263 - no number: Edward Boos studio
78-264 - Boos # 614: Chief Kai-kai-she
84-51 - no number: [Flathead Indian Ceremony] "'The Dog,' An Indian ceremony to teach kindness to dumb animals. The man represents a hungry dog and goes from teepee to teepee where things are given to him."
84-52 - no number: Chief Lamoose with wife and son, Flathead

Series II: Flathead, Mission, and Missoula Valleys , 1900-1908Return to Top

This series primarily contains photographs of the Flathead and Missoula valleys; however, it also includes a few photographs from the Mission valley as well as one from the Clark Fork valley near Frenchtown, Montana. The landscape photographs in this series offer a significant record of topography and general vegetative matrices during the early stages of community expansion into the foothills of the Missoula and Flathead valleys. The series also records some common leisure activities among western Montanans at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as glimpses of Missoula community events. Text between quotation marks is Edward Boos' original description of the photographs. Text in parentheses is subsequent description from original photograph envelopes that may have been recorded by Boos, Walter McLeod, or early archives staff. The original glass plate negative for 78-415 is broken, inhibiting reproduction quality.

Description	Dates
78-332 - no number: "Sunlight and Shadow" [unknown location]
78-333 - Boos # 1: "Flathead Lake"
78-334 - Boos # 2: "Moonlight on Flathead Lake"
78-335 - Boos # 3: "Pend'Oreille Falls"
78-336 - Boos # 4: "Pend'Oreille Falls"
78-337 - Boos # 5: "DeMers old house"
78-338 - Boos # 6: "Rocks at Lolo Hot Springs #1"
78-339 - Boos # 7: "Foot of Flathead Lake"
78-340 - Boos # 8: "Bicycle Float" [entry into Fourth of July parade]
78-341 - Boos # 9: "Mission Creek, McDonald Peak"
78-342 - Boos # 10: "Lake McDonald"
78-343 - Boos # 11: A photo portrait of [middle age man in 3 piece suit]
78-344 - Boos # 12: "Flathead Bay"
78-345 - Boos # 13: "Sunset" [unknown location]
78-346 - Boos # 14: "In the hay field" [two men with horse-drawn thresher]
78-347 - Boos # 15: "South Missoula, East, July 4, 1904"
78-348 - Boos # 16: "South Missoula, July 4, 1904"
78-349 - Boos # 17: "Missoula from First National Bank, July, 1907"
78-350 - Boos # 18: "E.H. Boos"
78-351 - Boos # 19: "Picnicers, June 12, 1904"
78-352 - Boos # 22: "Supper Camp, June 12, 1904"
78-353 - Boos # 23: "Dodo and Thompson"
78-354 - Boos # 24: [portrait of family looking out log cabin window]
78-355 - Boos # 25: "Chief Poopaloo, June 12, 1904"
78-356 - Boos # 25x: "Skating on Rattlesnake"
78-357 - Boos # 26: "Pine Street" [Missoula, MT]
78-358 - Boos # 27: "Train entering Missoula"
78-359 - Boos # 28: "Skating on Rattlesnake" [Rattlesnake Creek]
78-360 - Boos # 29: "Rattlesnake" [flooding on Rattlesnake Creek]
78-361 - Boos # 30: "Frenchtown Valley, looking towards Missoula, June 5, 1904"
78-362 - Boos # 31: "Bicycle Float" [man riding Fourth of July Parade entry]
78-363 - Boos # 32: "Flathead River"
78-364 - Boos # 33: "Flathead River"
78-365 - Boos # 34: "Chas. Thompson's house"
78-366 - Boos # 35: "A shady nook" [small creek, unknown location]
78-367 - Boos # 36: "Sawdust Road" [mountain road, unknown location]
78-368 - Boos # 37: "Camp" [four men in a hunting camp, unknown location]
78-369 - Boos # 38: "Mission Peaks"
78-370 - Boos # 39: [A portrait of a woman from the back]
78-371 - Boos # 40: "Bonner Dam"
78-372 - Boos # 41: "No. 2 on Marshall Grade"
78-373 - Boos # 42: "Big Blackfoot [River], looking south"
78-374 - Boos # 43: "Big Blackfoot River railroad bridge"
78-375 - Boos # 44: " M M store" [taken by Chas. W. Lombard]
78-376 - Boos # 45: "Harold Blake & L.B."
78-377 - Boos # 50: "Bonner Bridge"
78-378 - Boos # 51: "Bonner Bridge"
78-379 - Boos # 52: "Rock Cliff" [Blackfoot River Valley]
78-380 - Boos # 53: "Blackfoot Road" [Blackfoot River Valley]
78-381 - Boos # 54: "Bonner Dam"
78-382 - Boos # 55: "Bonner"
78-383 - Boos # 56: "Needle Point" [rock formation, unknown location]
78-384 - Boos # 57: "Old Man of the Lolo-1907"
78-385 - Boos # 58: "Bear Cave" [cave entrance, unknown location]
78-386 - Boos # 59: "Fishing on Lolo-1907"
78-387 - Boos # 60: "Rocks at Lolo Hot Springs #2"
78-388 - Boos # 62: "Blackfoot" [road, Blackfoot River Valley]
78-389 - Boos # 63: "Blackfoot" [road, Blackfoot River Valley]
78-390 - Boos # 64: "In the pasture" [grazing horses, unknown location]
78-391 - Boos # 65: "Days work done" [horse-drawn harvester, unknown location]
78-392 - Boos # 66: "Nip-and-Tuck Falls"
78-393 - Boos # 67: "Supper Camp" [large gathering, unknown location]
78-394 - Boos # 68: "Woods on Reservation" [unknown location]
78-395 - Boos # 69: "Mission Creek"
78-396 - Boos # 70: "Mission Creek"
78-397 - Boos # 71: "Mission Creek"
78-398 - Boos # 72: "Roses" [still life]
78-399 - Boos # 73: "Blackfoot 'hosp'" [two men in a buggy]
78-400 - Boos # 74: "Rainbow" [unknown location]
78-401 - Boos # 75: "Garden City Brewery"
78-402 - Boos # 76: "Mowing hay" [hand threshing, unknown location]
78-403 - Boos # 77: "Webster's house"
78-404 - Boos # 78: "Flathead River"
78-405 - Boos # 79: "Dry Lake" [unknown location]
78-406 - Boos # 80: "On Flathead Lake"
78-407 - Boos # 81: "Lake Blaine"
78-408 - Boos # 82: "Hansen Creek"
78-409 - Boos # 83: "Dry Creek"
78-410 - Boos # 84: "Dry Creek"
78-411 - Boos # 85: "South Side Missoula"
78-412 - Boos # 86: "Skating on the Rattlesnake"
78-413 - Boos # 87: "Flathead River"
78-414 - Boos # 88: "In the Steamer's Wake" [unknown location]
78-415 - Boos # 89: "Wooded Island, Lake Blaine"
78-416 - Boos # 90: "Lovers Lane" [unknown location]
78-417 - Boos # 91: "Sterling's front walk" [Missoula, MT]
78-418 - Boos # 92: "Winter on the Rattlesnake" [Creek]
78-419 - Boos # 93: "Winter, Rattlesnake" [Creek]
78-420 - Boos # 94: "Big Blackfoot River"
78-421 - Boos # 95: "Big Sleugh" [river bend, unknown location]
78-422 - Boos # 96: "Big Sleugh" [river bend close up, unknown location]
78-423 - Boos # 97: "Hansen Creek"
78-424 - Boos # 98: "Near Lies Landing" [unknown location]
78-425 - Boos # 99: "Mission Creek Falls"
78-426 - Boos # 100: "On Lake Blaine"
78-427 - Boos # 101: "Mission Range and Clouds"
78-428 - Boos # 102: "New Years Day" [Rattlesnake Creek]
78-429 - Boos # 103: "Big Blackfoot Road"
78-430 - Boos # 104: "Harvesting" [horse-drawn harvester]
78-431 - Boos # 105: "Harvesting grain" [horse-drawn harvester]
78-432 - Boos # 105x: "Railroad bridge over Clark Fork, Missoula, Flood, 1908"
78-433 - Boos # 106: "Mission Range from foot of Flathead Lake"
78-434 - Boos # 107: "Old Sleugh" [unknown location]
78-435 - Boos # 108: "Hunting Party" [four men on horseback, unknown location]
78-436 - Boos # 109: "Vermilion Gorge"
78-437 - Boos # 110: "Crowd on Bridge, July 4, 1904"
78-438 - Boos # 111: "Pigs"
78-439 - Boos # 112: [A Ranch landscape, unknown location]
78-440 - Boos # 113: "Feeding chickens" [unknown location]
78-441 - Boos # 114: "The Race" [horse race, unknown location]
78-442 - Boos # 115: "Feeding the Chickens, duplicate" [unknown location]
78-443 - Boos # 116: "Lake Mcdonald & Mtns."
78-444 - Boos # 117: "Higgins Ave., July 4, 1904"
78-445 - Boos # 118: "Pend'Oreille Falls"
78-446 - Boos # 119: "View on Island" [unknown location]
78-447 - Boos # 120: "Missoula and Jumbo from South Side"
78-448 - Boos # 121: "Inquisitive calves" [unknown location]
78-449 - Boos # 122: "On Flathead Lake"
78-450 - Boos # 123: "Mission Creek"
78-451 - Boos # 124: "Pedagree" [photograph of Boos family tree]
78-452 - Boos # 125: "On the road to Kalispell"
78-453 - Boos # 126: "Hellgate Canyon"
78-454 - Boos # 127: "Lake McDonald reflection"
78-455 - Boos # 128: "Pend'Oreille Falls"
78-456 - Boos # 129: "View on Island" [unknown location]
78-457 - Boos # 130: "Boos #12"
78-458 - Boos # 131: "Vermilion Falls"
78-459 - Boos # 132: "Lower Falls - Lightning Creek"
78-460 - Boos # 133: "Mission Mtns."
78-461 - Boos # 134: "Fredensburg Hill"
78-462 - Boos # 135: "Cascade Falls, Lightning Creek"

Series III: Victoria, B.C., undatedReturn to Top

No specific place identification information was provided with the original photographs in this series and no date could be determined. All negatives in this series are modern film negatives and are in good condition.

Description	Dates
78-463 - no number: Victoria, B.C. trip, undated [provincial building]
78-464 - no number: Victoria, B.C. trip, undated [harbor]
78-465 - no number: Victoria, B.C. trip, undated [steam ship]
78-466 - no number: Victoria, B.C. trip, undated [harbor]
78-467 - no number: Victoria, B.C. trip, undated [unknown building]
78-468 - no number: Victoria, B.C. trip, undated [landscape]

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Indian reservations--Montana--Photographs
Indians of North America--Montana--Photographs
Kalispel Indians--Photographs
Kootenai Indians--Photographs
Landscape photography--Montana
Salish Indians--Photographs

Geographical Names

Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--Photographs
Flathead River Valley (B.C. and Mont.)--Photographs
Mission Valley (Lake County, Mont.)--Photographs
Missoula (Mont.)--Photographs
Missoula Valley (Mont.)--Photographs
Victoria (B.C.)--Photographs

Form or Genre Terms

Photographs--British Columbia--Victoria
Photographs--Montana

Occupations

Photographers--Montana--Missoula

Archives West Finding Aid

Table of Contents