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Clarence Strong Papers, 1917-1975
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Strong, Clarence, 1895-1982
- Title
- Clarence Strong Papers
- Dates
- 1917-1975 (inclusive)19171975
- Quantity
- 4.0 linear feet
- Collection Number
- Mss 105 (collection)
- Summary
- Clarence Strong was a Forest Service ranger in Missoula, Montana. His service for the USFS culminated in his appointment as an Assistant Regional Forester in Region One. Materials in the collection touch on topics such as timber sale areas, expenses and wildlife issues.
- Repository
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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
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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
Clarence Charles Strong was born September 7, 1895, in Arago, Oregon. A veteran of World War I, he graduated from what is now Oregon State University in 1924 with a degree in forestry. He worked for ten years in blister rust control in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho area before accepting a position with the United States Forest Service in 1924. His service for the USFS culminated in his appointment as an Assistant Regional Forester in Region One, Missoula, Montana, and a special mission to Afghanistan as an advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture. He retired from the Forest Service in 1957.
After retiring, Strong was called upon by state governments to advise in land zoning concerns. He remained an active member of the Society of American Foresters, the American Forestry Association and the Forest History Society. In 1970 Strong published his only book, White Pine: King of Many Waters, about the history of the lumber industry in the Coeur d'Alene Mountains of Idaho and Montana.
Strong was well known and liked in the Forest Service and the timber industry and was characterized by co-workers and family as a man of integrity and character. Strong also possessed a deep interest in history and compiled valuable interviews, notes and research sources for the purpose of preservation. His many interviews were a result of his desire to capture the history of pioneering forestry in Montana before those who lived it passed on. Strong married Marie Tonseth in 1925 and raised two children, Marilyn Jeanne Strong and Richard Allen Strong. He spent his free time fishing, traveling, rose gardening and in the WW I Veterans Barracks 835 of Missoula. Clarence Strong died in 1982 in Missoula at the age of 87.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Clarence Strong papers are a resource for learning of the daily operations of a U.S. Forest Service employee through Strong's diaries. They also touch on topics such as timber sale areas, expenses and wildlife issues.
A valuable portion of the Strong Papers are a collection of research notes, notes from personal interviews and an in-depth topical card index. Each of these items is the result of Strong's dedication to the documentation and preservation of the history of the timber industry in Montana and North Idaho. Though the dates listed on the collection reflect the years in which the research was conducted, 1966-1975, information is contained in the research as far back as 1845. The collection gives specific details on the locations of early sawmills, including ownership and production levels. As a consequence, it also discusses many early towns that no longer appear on Montana maps. The collection also deals with the tools, methods and environmental impact issues discussed by early foresters in Montana. Major early Montana figures also receive mention, including Thomas Greenough, A.M. Holter and John Rankin.
The notes and interviews of Clarence Strong, while not focused on gender, do include numerous interviews with women who associated with the lumber industry through work or through family. One example is a questionnaire filled out by Jeanette Rankin and letters and interviews with two of her sisters on the sawmill operated by their father. Some small references are made to minorities, such as Hindi rail workers in Northwest Montana and Native American sawmill owners on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Various notes and interviews discuss the origin of European immigrant lumber workers who entered Montana in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Labor history is also a valuable component of the Strong Collection, discussing mill workers unions, strikes, wages and working conditions.
For all of the topics touched upon in the Strong Papers, complete notations of primary and secondary sources are given. In addition to the printed sources, the collection comes with 172 photographs in excellent condition, many with complete caption information.
Strong was the author of one book, and notes and correspondence related to White Pine, King of Many Waters, is contained in the collection. Also found in the collection are several folders dedicated to Strong's personal life. These contain personal notes, a memoir from WWI, letters from friends in WWII and personal cards.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
Original materials in Series VII were transferred from a reel-to-reel tape to two cassette tapes in 1999. Researchers are asked to review these materials on audiocassette.
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
[Name of document or photograph number], Clarence Strong Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The collection is divided into seven series:
Series I: Diaries, 1 linear foot, 1930-1957
Series II: Lumber History Research, 1.5 lienar feet, 1966-1975
Series III: White Pine, 2 folders, 1970-1972
Series IV: Personal, 3 folders, 1917-1975
Series V: Photographs, 172 photographs, 1898-1973
Series VI: Oral History, 1 folder, 1946
Series VII: Audio Tape, 1 reel-to-reel tape and 2 cassette tapes, undated
Acquisition Information
Gift of Richard Allen Strong, date unknown.
Processing Note
The actions of the original processors are unknown. In 1999, the collection was re-described. Folders 3-7 and 3-8 were formerly labeled Timberman Articles and were renamed Notes and Interviews because they contained several interviews and notes from other areas besides the Timberman. Series II, III, and IV materials were integrated from LC 232 into Mss 105.
Separated Materials
During 1999 reprocessing one oral history by C. S. Porter from 1946 was removed from the collection and placed in the archives oral history collection as OH-371. The 172 photographs contained in the Strong Collection were physically moved to the archives photo collection and numbered 99-3210 through 99-3253 and 99-3603 through 99-3731. A number of books on forestry in Hawaii and Northern Idaho were removed from the collection and transferred to the Mansfield Library science collection. Forest Service publications were transferred to the Mansfield Library government documents collection.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series I: Field Diaries , 1930-1957Return to Top
This series contains diaries spanning twenty-seven years of daily work activities of Clarence Strong. The diaries describe where Strong was stationed, where he traveled, how he traveled, what he spent and what he did when he arrived at his destination. The notes lack detail due to the small writing space of the pocket sized daily logs. In the earlier, larger, diaries Strong describes his travels in greater detail than in the smaller diaries issued after 1941. Items discussed in the diaries include personnel issues, timber sale inspections and meetings, environmental concerns, wildlife concerns and Strong's stint in Afghanistan as an advisor to the Afghan Ministry of Agriculture.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | 1930, 1934, 1935 | |
1/2 | 1936, 1937, 1938 | |
1/3 | July, 1938 - June, 1939 | |
1/4 | July, 1939 - January, 1940 | |
1/5 | February 1, 1940 - August 31, 1940 | |
1/6 | September 1, 1940 - May 21, 1941 | |
1/7 | May 22, 1941 - October 7, 1941 | |
1/8 | October 8, 1941 - March 31, 1942 | |
1/9 | April 1, 1942 - August 31, 1942 | |
1/10 | September 1, 1942 - February 12, 1943 | |
1/11 | February 13, 1943 - July 27, 1943 | |
1/12 | July 28, 1943 - December 12, 1943 | |
1/13 | December 13, 1943 - June 3, 1944 | |
1/14 | June 4, 1944 - October 5, 1944 | |
1/15 | October 6, 1944 - March 31, 1945 | |
1/16 | April 1, 1945 - July 31, 1945 | |
1/17 | August 1, 1945 - May 20, 1946 | |
1/18 | May 21, 1946 - November 30, 1946 | |
2/1 | December 1, 1946 - May 17, 1947 | |
2/2 | May 19, 1947 - September 30, 1947 | |
2/3 | October 1, 1947 - March 27, 1948 | |
2/4 | March 23, 1948 - August 25, 1948 | |
2/5 | August 26, 1948 - March 31, 1949 | |
2/6 | April 1, 1949 - September 9, 1949 | |
2/7 | September 10, 1949 - April 5, 1950 | |
2/8 | March 29, 1950 - July 31, 1950 | |
2/9 | August 1, 1950 - February 27, 1951 | |
2/10 | February 28, 1951 - August 20, 1951 | |
2/11 | August 21, 1951 - May 9, 1952 | |
2/12 | May 10, 1952 - October 21, 1952 | |
2/13 | October 27, 1952 - May 15, 1953 | |
2/14 | May 16, 1953 - June 30, 1953 | |
2/15 | December 1, 1953 - June 30, 1953 | |
2/16 |
Travel Memo from Afghanistan, November 28 - December 14,
1955.
|
July 1, 1954 - August 17, 1954 |
2/17 |
Diaries from Afghanistan
|
October 1, 1954 - January, 1955 |
2/18 | January 4, 1957 - September 20, 1957 |
Series II: Lumber History Research , 1966-1975Return to Top
Series II is a collection with broad ranging topics, all joined by the central theme of lumber history in Montana from 1845 to 1945. The series contains general correspondence, notes and interviews, research by I.V. Anderson, A.E. Boorman, Audra Browman, O.B. Calvin and Neil Fullerton, notes from published materials and miscellaneous lumber production and wage statistics. The general correspondence contains letters from Jeanette Rankin, Edna Rankin McKinnon, Harriet Rankin McGregor and an assortment of timber industry personalities.
Another invaluable portion of series two contains notes from varied sources and interviews of the people who lived the early history of the timber industry in Montana. The interviews and notes pin point the locations of early saw mills, who owned them, how much lumber they processed, what mechanical features and lumbering styles were employed by the mill and why they relocated, sold out or closed down. Such notes and interviews necessarily discuss community history of towns across Montana with an emphasis on Western and Central Montana.
The research notes taken from the papers of I.V. Anderson focus mainly on lumber statistics and the processing of railroad ties and the waste of wood involved in that process. Items include memos on wage scales, sales statistics, production of cross ties and the amount of wasted lumber and profits lost in rail tie production. Notes taken by Strong from A.E. Boorman's scrapbook contain information gleaned from memos, books and newspapers by Boorman. The notes reference saw mill locations, mill fires, production, wages and a wide variety of financial, environmental and practical concerns related to the timber industry and where to find that information in primary sources. The Audra Browman research contains information gleaned from court house records for the Lolo, Lolo Hot Springs and Woodman areas as far back as 1866 concerning land claims, real estate deals, ranch locations and owners, mine locations and owners, saw mill locations and owners, post offices and post masters, election precincts and school districts. These records also list all the people who received mail in Lolo and Woodman in 1903 and 1905, their occupation and a property value assessment. Other Browman research discusses saw mill locations, owners, anecdotes and a copy of letter from Thomas Greenough in response to an accusation of stealing lumber from government land.
The remaining folders discuss sawmill locations and owners, miscellaneous notes, a history of saws, lumber statistics and photo sources. Box 5 and 6 containing items from Series II are a valuable collection of note cards that alphabetically and geographically organize all of the material found in the folders of Series II. These note cards first organize by geographic areas: Clark Fork/Bitterroot; Head Waters of the Missouri (including areas as far north as the Blackfeet reservation); Montana General; Central and Eastern Montana; Idaho, Washington; Flathead - Northwest Montana. Information on the Yaak/Eureka area is found in his listings of Montana General and Central and Eastern Montana and no reason for this is given by Strong. Within these geographical divisions, alphabetical ordering of topics, people, places, companies, events, notes and interviews are typed on note cards with the complete listing of the primary sources.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
3/1 | Project outline for Montana
lumber history research |
undated |
3/2 | General correspondence
|
1966-1974 |
3/3 | Interviews and notes |
1960-1971 |
3/4 | Interviews and notes |
1966-1972 |
3/5 | Interviews |
1972 |
3/6 | Interviews and notes |
1972 |
3/7 | Interviews and notes |
1973 |
3/8 | Interviews and notes |
1971-1973 |
3/9 | Interviews and notes |
1966-1971 |
3/10 | Research Materials, I.V. Anderson
|
undated |
3/11 | Research Materials, I.V. Anderson
|
undated |
3/12 | Research Materials, I.V. Anderson
|
undated |
3/13 | Research Materials, A.E. Boorman
scrapbook |
undated |
3/14 | Research Materials, Audra Browman
|
undated |
3/15 | Research Materials, O.B. Calvin
|
1973 |
3/16 | Research Materials, Neil
Fullerton |
undated |
4/1 | Lumbermen and sawmills
|
1953-1973 |
4/2 | Notes from published items
|
undated |
4/3 | Notes from published items
|
undated |
4/4 | Statistics, wages in Western MT
sawmills |
1917 |
4/5 | Lumber Statistics |
undated |
4/6 | Photograph sources |
undated |
4/7 | Research clippings |
1968-1974 |
4/8 |
Timberman articles |
1900-1924 |
4/9 | Published pamphlets |
undated |
4/10 | Missoula/Hellgate history
|
undated |
4/11 | Last log drive clippings
|
undated |
4/12 | History of saws |
undated |
4/13 | Alphabetized
names/sources/companies |
undated |
4/14 | Notebook notes |
undated |
5/1 | Note card index |
undated |
6/1 | Note card index |
undated |
Series III: White Pine , 1970-1972Return to Top
The White Pine series holds correspondence dedicated to issues touching the book, White Pine, King of Many Waters, thank-you notes from those who received copies of the book, and other general comments. This series also contains a series of clippings kept in a scrapbook with reviews and comments upon the book.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
4/15 | Correspondence |
1970-1972 |
4/16 | Clippings |
1970-1972 |
Series IV: Personal , 1917-1975Return to Top
This series contains personal correspondence from 1941 to 1975 from friends and family on varied topics, such as a former Forest Service employee serving in the Pacific theater during WW II. The series also contains notes made while training for field service during WWI, a memoir of Strong's life and training during the war written in 1919, and information on the organization U.S.A. Veterans of WWI.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
4/18 | Personal Correspondence
|
1941-1974 |
4/19 | World War I Veterans |
1917-1973 |
4/20 | Personal - press releases,
obituaries |
1973-1975 |
Series V: Photographs , 1898-1973Return to Top
The photograph collection contains photos of saw mills, lumber workers, tree stands before and after logging, wind storm stands, tools of the lumber industry, horse teams and various working individuals from logging labor history. Photographers include R.H. McKay, K.D. Swan and I.V. Anderson; many of the photos are United States Forest Service photos. Some originals are contained in the collection but most are copies or pictures of photographs.
Description | Dates |
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99-3210: Detwiler Mill, near Blue Creek
Detwiler and Clarence Strong.
|
Aug. 4, 1967 |
99-3211: Detwiler Mill, near Blue Creek
Detwiler and Clarence Strong.
|
Aug. 4, 1967 |
99-3212: Mr. and Mrs. Jellison, founders
and owners of the Jellision Lumber Co., east of Kalispell, and their three
daughters.
Courtesy of Dr. Wm. Jellison, retired, Hamilton, MT
|
ca. 1910 |
99-3213: Founder and owner of the
Jellision Lumber Co., and his sons, William, Walter, Charles and Marshall
|
ca. 1910 |
99-3214: The seven children of Mr. and
Mrs. Jellison of the Jellision Lumber Co., east of Kalispell, about 1910. Left
to Right: Walter, Mildred, Marshall, Elizabeth, Charles, Caroline, and William.
By Courtesy of Dr. Wm. Jellison, retired, Hamilton, MT.
|
|
99-3215: Dolmar power saw operating at the
White Pine Sash Co. operation on Sleeping Child Creek, June, 1938 near
Hamilton, MT. USFS |
|
99-3216: Showing Bening pole road plane in
operating position. A jack-plane like device used for hewing or planing the
surface of tread logs on pole roads used by motor trucks in western white pine
type. Jan., 1938.
Photo by I.V. Anderson. USFS
|
|
99-3217: Showing Bening pole road plane in
operating position. A jack-plane like device used for hewing or planing the
surface of tread logs on pole roads used by motor trucks in western white pine
type. Jan., 1938.
Photo by I.V. Anderson. USFS
|
|
99-3218: Ox Yoke, Frank Dobravec, left,
Neil Fullerton, right. Heron, MT |
Aug. 4, 1967 |
99-3219: Enormous pile of stulls at Butte
& Superior mine, Butte, MT. USFS |
1916 |
99-3220: Getting wood for Colorado
smelter, Butte, MT. Head of flume, altitude, 10,000 feet USFS |
|
99-3221: Valley Creek, MT, Heron Lumber
Co. Fire damage to merchantable ponderosa pine. July, 1929.
Photo by I.V. Anderson. USFS
|
|
99-3222: Gilman's ferry at mouth of Deep
Creek about 1900 ? just below where Harper bridge is now located. |
|
99-3223: Kerr and McMillan Tie mill, near
Kalispell. Slab pile, Aug., 1930.
Photo by I.V. Anderson. USFS
|
|
99-3224: A.J. Knudsen champion tie bucker
for two (2) years at Pocatello, ID, shouldering a 225 pound 7" by 9" larch tie
at Kinshella mill near Lupfer, MT. Note horse collar-like pad used for shoulder
protection and the horseshoe spikes to prevent tie from slipping during cold
weather.
Photo by I.V. Anderson. USFS
|
1930 |
99-3225: A.J. Knudsen champion tie bucker
for two (2) years at Pocatello, ID, shouldering a 225 pound 7" by 9" larch tie
at Kinshella mill near Lupfer, MT. Note horse collar-like pad used for shoulder
protection and the horseshoe spikes to prevent tie from slipping during cold
weather.
Photo by I.V. Anderson. USFS
|
1930 |
99-3226: A.J. Knudsen champion tie bucker
for two (2) years at Pocatello, ID, shouldering a 225 pound 7" by 9" larch tie
at Kinshella mill near Lupfer, MT. Note horse collar-like pad used for shoulder
protection and the horseshoe spikes to prevent tie from slipping during cold
weather.
Photo by I.V. Anderson. USFS
|
1930 |
99-3227: 1910 burn on the southeast slope
south of St. Regis River, two miles south of lookout. USFS |
|
99-3228: Immature stand of ponderosa pine
being cut for wood, March 6, 1941 ? 1 mile south of Florence, MT along main
highway.
USFS
|
|
99-3229: F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Co.,
Columbia Falls, MT. Postcard. |
|
99-3230: Sawmill of Walter Cooper and Co.,
Bear Creek. Photo by G.E. Tower, August, 1902.
USFS
|
|
99-3231: O'Brien Creek. Baird and Harper,
O'Brien Creek
Early logging of RR cars. Shay locomotive.
|
1913 |
99-3232: Kerr and McMillan Tie mill,
Patrick Gulch near Kalispell |
Aug., 1930 |
99-3233: Part of a blow down area in a
mature lodgepole pine stand as a result of a severe windstorm in 1953 in upper
Jefferson Creek, Belt Ranger Dist. S12, T13N, R8W.
Photo by W.W. Gordon. USFS
|
August, 1954 |
99-3234: Uncut Stand of timber on the
Ekalaka division. Typical mature of ponderosa pine of this locality. Note the
dense stand of reproduction beneath the older trees.
Photo by K.D. Swan
|
September, 1938 |
99-3235: Sawmill of Polley's Lumber
Co.
Photo by K.D. Swan. USFS
|
1925 |
99-3236: E.A. Findell Lumber Co. Mill,
Missoula, MT.
Photo by K.D. Swan
|
November, 1937 |
99-3237: L-DF stud mill on Community Hall
timber sale area. Kootenai National Forest.
Photo by J.E. Sanderson. USFS
|
September 2, 1959 |
99-3238: Sawmill at Ekalaka which handles
logs cut as part of WPA project to supply lumber for resettlement purposes
throughout the state.
Photo by K.D. Swan, USFS
|
1938 |
99-3239: State land near Radnor, MT.
Photo by K.D. Swan. USFS
|
1924 |
99-3240: Big Blackfoot (Hammond) Mill Co.
logging camp at Seeley Lake, Montana |
1908 |
99-3241: Unidentified landscape.
|
|
99-3242: Montana Logging Co. operation in
yellow pine. USFS |
|
99-3243: Trailing on the Montana Logging
Company operation in yellow pine. Spring Gulch.
Photo by K.D. Swan. USFS
|
1922 |
99-3244: Cutting western yellow pine on
the Neil Lumber Co. at Libby, MT.
Photo by K.D. Swan. USFS
|
|
99-3245: White Sulphur Springs District.
Lodgepole pine pulpwood made available by the access road in Sheep Creek area.
Photo by K.D. Swan. USFS
|
September 1946 |
99-3246: Loading with McGifford loader.
White pine logs cut on FS land, Bobtail Creek near Libby, MT; near Kootenai
National Forest.
Photo by K.D. Swan. USFS
|
1928 |
99-3247: Plant of International Chemical
Products Co., Eureka, MT. |
|
99-3248: Dee Conner Lumber Co. Inc.,
Darby, MT.
Scott Brown Photography.
|
1966 |
99-3249: Loading at the railroad,
Baird-Harper Co., Warland, Montana.
USFS
|
1921 |
99-3250: Christmas tree cutting.
by K.D. Swan. USFS
|
November 1939 |
99-3251: Cache Creek timber sale, Shields
Ranger District. Loading Logs. A. Adams, sub-contractor for Burkland studs. Mr.
Adams on top of load.
Photo by Philip G. Schlamp. USFS
|
Sept. 19, 1962 |
99-3252: Bennett Lumber Co. plant at St.
Regis. Courtesy Charles Bennett. |
1948 |
99-3253: Don McKenzie, Log superintendent,
Anaconda Co. |
|
99-3603: Broadaxe. |
|
99-3604: Broadaxe. |
|
99-3605: Lumber tools. |
|
99-3606: 1)Bitch link or ring, 2) Fid
hook, 3) Broadaxe, 4) Altered Broadaxe, 5) Foot Adz, 6) Hand made spud, 7)
Cross cut saw set, 8) Set for swede saw, 9) Trail or skidding dogs.
|
|
99-3607: 1) Double trail dogs, 2)
Blacksmith peaveys, 3) Pike Poles, 4) Froe, 5) Stamping hammer. |
|
99-3608: 1) Broadaxe, 2) Pole Axe, 3) Foot
Adzes, 4) Broadaxe. |
|
99-3609: Stamping hammer. |
|
99-3610: Ox Yoke. Heron, MT |
Aug. 4, 1967 |
99-3611: Neil Fullerton (?) Demonstrating
logging tools. undated |
|
99-3612: Bosworth Trencher, Clarkia,
Idaho. Porterfield, Rice, Moore |
June 29, 1939 |
99-3613: Bosworth Trencher, Clarkia, ID.
Charlie Gregory |
June 29, 1939 |
99-3614: Bosworth Trencher, Clarkia, ID.
St. Joe |
June 29, 1939 |
99-3615: Bosworth Trencher, Clarkia, ID.
Charlie Gregory |
June 29, 1939 |
99-3616: Bosworth Trencher, Clarkia, ID.
Howard Ferris |
June 29, 1939 |
99-3617: Logging truck and implements,
Thompson Falls, MT. undated |
|
99-3618: Unidentified logging implement.
|
|
99-3619: Polley's big wheel |
1939 |
99-3620: Remains of overshot water wheel
on Sanders ranch on Little Sleeping Child.
Negatives made from Koda-Chrome slides taken Fall 1973 by Robert K. Gerloft(?), Hamilton, MT.
|
|
99-3621: Remains of overshot water wheel
on Sanders ranch on Little Sleeping Child.
Negatives made from Koda-Chrome slides taken Fall, 1973 by Robert K. Gerloft(?), Hamilton, MT.
|
1973 |
99-3622: Clarence Strong |
1941 |
99-3623: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3624: Clarence Strong (left) and Neil
Fullerton (right). Kootenai Trail map. Thompson Falls, MT |
August 3, 1967 |
99-3625: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3626: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3627: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3628: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3629: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3630: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3631: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3632: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3633: Clarence Strong |
undated |
99-3634: Shingle mill saw |
undated |
99-3635: Shingle mill saw |
undated |
99-3636: Logging equipment, unidentified
|
undated |
99-3637: Corliss Steam Engine: The Big
Wheel |
undated |
99-3638: Idaho historic marker: Lake
Steamers |
undated |
99-3639: Tug Boat on the St. Joe above St.
Mares, Idaho. Towing logs to Coeur d'Alene |
May 8, 1941 |
99-3640: Tug boat |
undated |
99-3641: Tug boat Hercules |
undated |
99-3642: Rudolf - 1 ton Scotch Highland
Steer (of Charlo, MT), b. April 6, 1961. Buggy is a 1916 custom built Chatham
built in Quebec and purchased in Tombstone, AZ. Pendleton, OR, Sept. 15, 1972
|
|
99-3643:
Lake McDonald in June, Glacier Park.
R.H. McKay photo # 291.
|
|
99-3644: Mullan tree |
undated |
99-3645: Harrison, Idaho |
1903 |
99-3646: St. Joe River flood |
1913 |
99-3647: Two unidentified men viewing
photos |
undated |
99-3648: Rutlidge mill |
1950 |
99-3649: View of unidentified buildings or
logging camp |
undated |
99-3650: One legged miner on Ohio Match
(?) Cr. Operation |
undated |
99-3651: Abandoned logging flume and
unidentified man |
undated |
99-3652: Harrison, ID |
1963 |
99-3653: Logging flume, unidentified
location |
undated |
99-3654: St. Joe flood, St. Mares, ID
|
undated |
99-3655: Logging flume, unidentified
location |
undated |
99-3656: Log float, unidentified location
|
undated |
99-3657: Potlatch logs from Stony Creek,
Merry Creek landing, Clarkia, ID |
July 18, 1941 |
99-3658: Potlatch logs from Stony Creek,
Merry Creek landing, Clarkia, ID |
July 18, 1941 |
99-3659: Loading logs, unidentified
location |
undated |
99-3660: Rogers Mill Fire |
September 2, 1940 |
99-3661: Fire which spread from an
uncontrolled forest fire to the yards of the Spirit Lake Lumber Co. And
destroyed 35 million feet of manufactured lumber. Spirit Lake, ID.
Photo by K.D. Swan. USFS
|
September 1, 1939 |
99-3662: Jackson lumber harvester in
action in Boundary Co. |
undated |
99-3663: Three Forks saw mill
Sawing lumber for Three Forks Ranger Station. The bearded fellow
is Jack Clack. Dick Shields with Jack on ground.
|
1910 |
99-3664: State Lumber Co. mill at La
Salle, MT |
1898 |
99-3665: Unidentified area, logs on stream
bank |
undated |
99-3666: Mrs. Gene Grush and unidentified
boy and man, Yaak River |
undated |
99-3667: Cut lumber piles and building
under construction, unidentified location |
undated |
99-3668: Log rollers, unidentified
|
undated |
99-3669: Hunting party, unidentified men
|
undated |
99-3670: Log jam |
undated |
99-3671: Log jam |
undated |
99-3672: Unidentified men in surveyor camp
|
undated |
99-3673: Saw mill, unidentified
|
undated |
99-3674: Log drive, Fortine River, Eureka
Lumber Co. |
undated |
99-3675: Unidentified crowd |
undated |
99-3676: Log jam |
undated |
99-3677: Clyde Webb |
undated |
99-3678: Spokane Falls, Washington
Territory |
1888 |
99-3679: Coeur d'Alene Mission in the
Rocky Mountains |
1854 |
99-3680: Panhandle Mill, Spirit Lake, ID
|
undated |
99-3681: Portrait of unidentified man
|
undated |
99-3682: Horses skidding logs in winter
|
undated |
99-3683: Ox teams hauling lumber
|
undated |
99-3684: Interior scene in Leighty Bros.
Mill, Yaak River.
Photo by Gene Grush
|
undated |
99-3685: Mining in the Pacific Northwest,
1960's, unidentified location, possibly North Idaho. |
|
99-3686: Winter log sledding horse team
and loggers. Unidentified location, but possible Minnesota or Michigan hauling
eastern white pine |
undated |
99-3687: Panhandle Mill, Spirit Lake,
ID.
Photo by Mark Krause
|
undated |
99-3688: Logging road and loggers near a
stream, Spirit Lake, ID area.
Photo by Mark Krause
|
undated |
99-3689: Spirit Lake, ID (?) |
undated |
99-3690: Spirit Lake, ID (?) |
undated |
99-3691: White pine logs, Potlatch Forest
Inc. sale on Homestead Creek, St. Joe, ID |
July, 1940 |
99-3692: Loading logs, unidentified
location |
undated |
99-3693: USFS personnel pose near a large
tree. Clarence Strong on bottom right |
undated |
99-3694: Abandoned Spokane International
RR caboose |
undated |
99-3695: Unidentified lumber mill.
|
|
99-3696: Bonner base ball team
|
undated |
99-3697: Western Lumber Co. plant,
Milltown, MT |
undated |
99-3698: Western Lumber Co. Switch engine,
Milltown, MT |
undated |
99-3699: Trolley station at Milltown, MT
|
undated |
99-3700: Unidentified lumber mill and lake
|
undated |
99-3701: Clark's dam and power house,
Missoula, MT |
undated |
99-3702: Dam at junction of Stillwater and
Whitefish for a sawmill |
ca. 1903 |
99-3703: McGurk's Mill, South fork of
Teton Creek.
Photo by H.B. Ayres. USFS
|
July 1899 |
99-3704: H.M. Stevenson tie operation
along Union Pacific just south of West Yellowstone. |
|
99-3705: Frank Vogel, early century
cruiser and estimator for Anaconda Co. |
|
99-3706: Western Lumber Co. Plant at
Milltown, MT |
undated |
99-3707: Winter log sledding team, horses
and loggers. Unidentified location |
undated |
99-3708: Sleigh log team, Bitter Root
Mountains |
undated |
99-3709: In the Bitter Root Mountains, the
mill and pond at Hamilton |
undated |
99-3710: Logs in Tobacco River, Eureka, MT
|
August 8, 1915 |
99-3711: Collapsed Cedar St. bridge, 1908
flood, Missoula, MT. |
|
99-3712: Unidentified lumbermill under
construction |
undated |
99-3713: Missoula County H.S. fire
|
1931 |
99-3714: Eureka Mill |
undated |
99-3715: Rail ties of RR tracks
|
undated |
99-3716: Unidentified saw mill under
construction |
undated |
99-3717: Unidentified saw mill under
construction |
undated |
99-3718: Unidentified lumber mill fire
|
undated |
99-3719: Unidentified farm |
undated |
99-3720: Logs in the Tobacco River,
Eureka, MT |
1915 |
99-3721: Johnny Dahlberg dam, Barnaby Lake
|
undated |
99-3722: Johnny Dahlberg dam, Barnaby Lake
|
undated |
99-3723: Clark Fork flood (?) |
June 6, 1908 |
99-3724: Eureka Lumber Co. Mill
|
undated |
99-3725: Winter logging, Fortine, MT area
|
undated |
99-3726: BLM Thibadeau surveying team
|
undated |
99-3727: Source of Missoula Water supply
|
undated |
99-3728: H.C. Tuttle (left) and N. E.
Wilkerson (right). Forest Service cabin constructed by rangers Wilkerson and
Tuttle in June 1899 at Alta, MT. Believed to be the first Forest Service
building and the first flag floated by the Forest Service. |
|
99-3729: Logging truck and logs
|
undated |
99-3730: Horse skidding logs |
undated |
99-3731: Hunt Taylor, deceased 1967
|
undated |
Series VI: Oral History , 1946Return to Top
This reminiscence of fire fighting in the Salmon, Idaho area by C.S. Porter was collected by Strong. This history discusses in great detail a fire fought in the Summer of 1946 and how the crew worked and lived while it fought the fire. This folder was removed from the main collection and can be found in the archives oral history transcripts as OH-371. There is no audio tape of the interview.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Folder | ||
OH-371 | This reminiscence of fire
fighting in the Salmon, Idaho area by C.S. Porter |
Series VII: Audio Tape , undatedReturn to Top
This series contains two cassette tapes copied from a reel-to-reel audiotape. The tapes record Clarence Strong reading articles from the Timberman between 1900 and 1924. The printed record of these articles appears in Series II, box 4, folder 8.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
7/1 |
Timberman readings |
ca. 1970 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Foresters--Coeur d'Alene Mountains (Idaho and Mont.)
- Lumbering--Coeur d'Alene Mountains (Idaho and Mont.)--History
- Lumbermen--Montana--History
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
Personal Names
- Greenough, Thomas L., 1851-1911
- Holter, Anton M., 1831-1921
- Rankin, John, 1841-1904
Geographical Names
- Coeur d'Alene Mountains (Idaho and Mont.)
Form or Genre Terms
- Photographs
- Sound recordings