Archives West Finding Aid
Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
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Historical Note
- Content Description
- Administrative Information
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Safety Posters
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Safety Routine for Mine Supervisors
- Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Pamphlets
- Photographs #1-11
- Photographs #12-17 (World War II)
- Photographs #18-25 (World War II)
- Photographs #26-34 (World War II)
- Photographs #35-40 (World War II)
- Photographs #41-48 (Butte Mines - Work in the Stopes)
- Photographs #49-58 (Butte Mines - Work in the Stopes)
- Photographs #59-67 (Butte Mines - Work in the Stopes)
- Photographs #68-75 (Butte Mines - Work in the Stopes)
- Photographs #76-82 (Butte Mines - Work in Engine Room and Support Tunnels)
- Photographs # 83-88 (Butte Mines)
- Photographs #89-99 (Work outside mines)
- Photographs #100-105
- Photographs #106-113 (Mining and Safety Exhibits)
- Photographs #114-118
- Photographs #119-123 (Mine Visitors)
- Photographs #124-128
- Names and Subjects
John J. Powers Papers, 1937-1952
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Powers, John J.
- Title
- John J. Powers Papers
- Dates
- 1937-195219371952
- Quantity
- .4 linear feet
- Collection Number
- Collection 1392, MtBC, us (collection)
- Summary
- The John J. Powers Papers contain correspondence of the Anaconda Company's Bureau of Safety, safety posters that Powers drew, pamphlets, and photographs. Topics include mines and miners in Butte in the late 1930s and early 1940s, safety equipment, mining and safety exhibits, work in the stopes, rock drilling, the engine room, work outside the mines, mining gear, soldiers on the front during World War II, American paratroopers in northern France two days after D-Day, American medics, troops in the Southwest Pacific, and German prisoners of war.
- Repository
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Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Historical NoteReturn to Top
John J. Powers spent most of his life working as a cartoonist and miner for the Anaconda Mining Company. He began working in the mid-1920s as a cartoonist. During the 1930s he worked as a miner, returning to cartooning in the 1940s. He retired in 1968 and continued to live in Butte for another decade.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The John J. Powers Papers contain correspondence of the Anaconda Company's Bureau of Safety, safety posters that Powers drew, pamphlets, and photographs. The bulk of the photographs are of mines and miners in Butte in the late 1930s and early 1940s including safety equipment, mining and safety exhibits, work in the stopes, rock drilling, the engine room, work outside the mines, mining gear, and group shots of miners. The papers also contains photographs of soldiers on the front during World War II, including American paratroopers in northern France two days after D-Day, American medics, troops in the Southwest Pacific, and German prisoners of war. Also included are promotional campaigns used during the war to support bond sales. Photographs of Fort Logan (Camp Baker) are also found in the Powers collection.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence, 1948-1950Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/1
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence, February-June 1951Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/2
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence, July-October 1951Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/3
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence, November-December 1951Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/4
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence, February-May 1952Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/5
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence, June-August 1952Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/6
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Correspondence, September-December 1952Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/7
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Safety PostersReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/8
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, Safety Routine for Mine SupervisorsReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/9
Anaconda Company Bureau of Safety, PamphletsReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/10
Photographs #1-11Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/11
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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#1: Fort Logan (Camp Baker) |
circa 1874 | |
#2: Fort Logan (Camp Baker) |
circa 1871 | |
#3: Celebration at Fort Logan (Camp Baker)
ruins |
circa 1915 | |
#4-5: Fort Logan (Camp Baker) ruins |
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#6: Four unidentified men inspecting ruins of Fort Logan
(Camp Baker) |
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#7-9: Two unidentified men inspecting ruins of Fort Logan
(Camp Baker) |
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#10: Photograph of page from account book of William
Gaddes' Commissary |
April 1874 | |
#11: Unidentified woman |
Photographs #12-17 (World War II)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/12
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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#12: Military Hospital |
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#13: Major J. R. McNitt and Captain John M. Smith perform a
hernia operation. Station Hospital, somewhere in Australia |
September 15, 1942 | |
#14: Soldier wounded in the first assault of Allied troops
against German held beaches in France, is lifted into an ambulance by men of a medical
unit |
June 8, 1944 | |
#15: An American medic makes a casualty report on a wounded
soldier on a Beachhead somewhere in Northern France. Normandy, France |
June 8, 1944 | |
#16: An American medical officer (Captain) treats a wounded
German prisoner on a Beachhead gained by American troops in the early stages of the
invasion of France. Normandy, France |
June 8, 1944 | |
#17: View of first aid station located in town of S. Agata,
about half a mile behind front lines. Soldier in foreground is being given blood
plasma. Sicily |
August 9, 1943 |
Photographs #18-25 (World War II)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/13
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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#18: American Paratrooper having made successful landings
on the continent move cautiously through a French churchyard. Their rifles at the
ready, they move into the interior as the men on the right take cover and concealment
behind a bush. France |
June 8, 1944 | |
#19: American Paratroopers with assault equipment move
along a road in Northern France. France |
June 8, 1944 | |
#20: An American who has gained the comparative safety
offered by the chalk cliff at his back, gazes out into the harbor where other landing
craft, like those which landed him, move into the beachhead. Normandy,
France |
June 8, 1944 | |
#21: American tank in France under shellfire and
counter-attack. French girl's doll is in forefront of picture |
July 11, 1944 | |
#22: Members of the control station crew can be seen
working the director of a gun the function of which is to mechanically calculate all
data necessary for pointing the gun. The unit is installed below the ground in order
to give protection to both men and materials against bomb fragments and strafing.
Somewhere in Australia |
December 23, 1942 | |
#23: Propeller charge used in 4.2 mortar shell, Arundel
Island, Southwest Pacific |
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#24: 4.2 Chemical mortar HE shell, Arundel Island,
Southwest Pacific |
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#25: Regulars in Hitler's west wall army await entry into a
prisoner of war camp on the English side of the channel. The soldier in the middle
told interviewers he was 21. England |
June 8, 1944 |
Photographs #26-34 (World War II)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/14
Container(s) | Description |
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#26-32: Children in promotional campaign pictures to support
bond sales and keep up morale during World War II |
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#33-34: World War II posters |
Photographs #35-40 (World War II)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/15
Container(s) | Description |
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#35: Military band |
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#36: Jeanette McDonald, singing star volunteer on concert
tour for military posts. Her husband, Gene Raymond, was on duty with US
Army |
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#37: Jean Arthur |
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#38: Unidentified woman. Written on front of picture: To
the Butte Office in congratulations on Copper Commando From New York
Office |
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#39: Actress Ann Miller, one of the many Hollywood stars
who performed for servicemen at the USO-Camp shows |
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#40: Ilona Massey, made volunteer personal appearance tour
of Army camps and Naval stations for USO-Camp shows |
Photographs #41-48 (Butte Mines - Work in the Stopes)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/16
Container(s) | Description |
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#41-48: Rock Drilling |
Photographs #49-58 (Butte Mines - Work in the Stopes)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/17
Container(s) | Description |
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#49-51: Butte miner |
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#52: Two Butte miners showing safety equipment |
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#53: Miner wearing a safety belt |
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#54-55: Safety ringing bell |
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#56: Tom Mitchell working on timber hoist |
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#57: Butte miners counting out powder for blast. Slip shows
amount to be issued |
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#58: Butte miners loading dynamite for blast |
Photographs #59-67 (Butte Mines - Work in the Stopes)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/18
Container(s) | Description |
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#59: Inside mine shaft |
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#60: Butte miner lagging over the set after timber is
blocked |
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#61: Butte miners inspecting work |
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#62: Door in shaft to remain closed |
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#63-67: Butte miners working with mine carts loaded with
rock |
Photographs #68-75 (Butte Mines - Work in the Stopes)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/19
Container(s) | Description |
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#68-70: Butte miners working with mine carts loaded with
rock |
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#71: Sill Mucking Machine Operator |
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#72: HNN-IJ double drum air hoist pulling 36" Holcomb
scraper in cut and fill stope. Stope is worked both ways from central
chute |
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#73: Division Tunnel at Junction with Numell
Tunnel |
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#74: Tunnel |
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#75: Mine shaft |
Photographs #76-82 (Butte Mines - Work in Engine Room and Support Tunnels)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/20
Container(s) | Description |
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#76: John Cavanaugh and Jim Sullivan on the 2,800
Quinteplex plunger pumps tightening down pot cover after removing wood chips under
valve |
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#77: Willie "Dinty" Moore filling oil cups on bearing pump
operator and Bill Opee, bass machinist, checking bearings with pump operator. On
center of station Bob Combs and William Opee's son blowing med away from pump
suction |
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#78: Two miners in support tunnels |
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#79: Engine room |
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#80: Timber delivered to timber station under
ground |
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#81: Hundreds of thousands of feet of timber go into the
Butte copper mines. This is timber dump at one of the mines |
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#82: Timber at Butte mine |
Photographs # 83-88 (Butte Mines)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/21
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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#83-85: Gallus Frame |
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#86: On top of gallus frame |
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#87: Outside work at mine |
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#88: Anselmo Mine, No. 414 |
July 7, 1937 |
Photographs #89-99 (Work outside mines)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/22
Container(s) | Description |
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#89: Railroad cars loaded with coal |
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#90: Loading Railroad cars |
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#91: Lumber |
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#92: Machinery |
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#93-98: Miners working outside |
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#99: Tom McColgan and J Agard Johnson waiting for cage
morning shift |
Photographs #100-105Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/23
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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#100-101: Group photographs of Butte Miners |
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#102: Group photograph of workers at Leonard
Mine |
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#103: Group photograph of workers at Leonard
Mine |
August 2, 1942 | |
#104: Group photograph of Butte Miners |
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#105: Group photograph of workers at Mt. View
Mine |
Photographs #106-113 (Mining and Safety Exhibits)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/24
Container(s) | Description |
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#106-113: Jimmy Doran showing safety equipment and miner's
gear |
Photographs #114-118Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/25
Container(s) | Description |
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#114-116: Miner's gear |
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#117: Pat Deasy. Shaft miner, Emma Mine |
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#118: Blasting Accessories display |
Photographs #119-123 (Mine Visitors)Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/26
Container(s) | Description |
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#119-122: Mine Visitors |
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#123: Anaconda Copper Mining Company posters |
Photographs #124-128Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/27
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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#124: Anaconda Copper Mining Club |
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#125-126: Crowds |
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#127-128: Meeting for War Production Promotion |
June 17, 1943 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Cartoonists-Montana-Butte
- Mine safety-Montana
- Miners-Montana-Butte-Photographs
- Mines and mineral resources-Montana-Butte-Photographs
- Savings bonds-United States
- Soldiers-United States-Photographs
- World War, 1939-1945-Campaigns-France-Normandy-Photographs
- World War, 1939-1945-Medical care-Photographs
- World War, 1939-1945-War work-Photographs
Corporate Names
- United States-Army-Parachute troops-Photographs
Geographical Names
- Butte (Mont.)-Photographs
- Camp Baker (Mont.)-Photographs
- Fort Logan (Mont. : Fort)-Photographs
Form or Genre Terms
- Photographs
- Posters
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- Anaconda Company-Bureau of Safety (creator)