Montana City Directory Collection

Overview of the Collection

Title: Montana City Directory Collection
Dates: 1890-1982 (inclusive)
18901982
Quantity: 269 volumes
Collection Number: 2308
Summary: The Montana City Directory Collection consists of directories for various Montana cities. Cities represented in the collection are Anaconda, Billings, Butte, Columbia Falls, Dillon, Glasgow, Glendive, Great Falls, Hamilton, Hardin, Havre, Helena, Kalispell, Lewiston, Livingston, Miles City, Missoula, Sydney, and Whitefish. The collection is incomplete and not all years are available for each city listed.
Repository: 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: This collection is open for research.
Languages: Collection materials are in English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Content Description

Cities represented in the collection are Anaconda, Billings, Butte, Columbia Falls, Dillon, Glasgow, Glendive, Great Falls, Hamilton, Hardin, Havre, Helena, Kalispell, Lewiston, Livingston, Miles City, Missoula, Sydney, and Whitefish. The collection is incomplete and not all years are available for each city listed. Researchers are advised that directories for the city of Bozeman have been classified separately under F739.B6 A18.

The directories have been arranged in alphabetical order by town name, and thereafter chronologically.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Directories for selected Montana cities, primarily published by the R. L. Polk company, were collected by the Montana State University Library from a variety of sources over the span of several decades.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2009 April 9

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Description: Anaconda

Dates: 1947; 1962; 1964-1965; 1967; 1969-1970; 1972-1978; 1980; 1984
Description: Billings

Dates: 1947; 1956; 1958-1959; 1961-1962; 1964-1967; 1971-1977; 1980-1981; 1985
Description: Butte

Dates: 1900; 1910-1918; 1925; 1927-1928; 1934; 1936-1937; 1939-1940; 1942; 1945; 1948-1949; 1952; 1954; 1961-1978; 1980; 1982
Description: Dillon

Dates: 1964
Description: Glasgow

Dates: 1962; 1964
Description: Glendive

Dates: 1949; 1964-1965; 1972; 1974
Description: Great Falls

Dates: 1899; 1923; 1927-1928; 1934; 1946; 1962-1963; 1965-1975; 1977; 1980-1981
Description: Hamilton

Dates: 1965
Description: Hardin

Dates: 1965
Description: Havre

Dates: 1960; 1962; 1964; 1966-1967; 1969; 1971; 1973-1980; 1982; 1984
Description: Helena

Dates: 1883-1884; 1890-1897; 1889-1918; 1920; 1922; 1925; 1927; 1929; 1931; 1933; 1937; 1939-1942; 1944; 1947; 1950; 1953; 1956-1958; 1960-1979; 1986
Description: Kalispell-Whitefish-Columbia Falls

Dates: 1961-1962; 1964-1972; 1974-1979
Description: Lewistown

Dates: 1963-1964; 1966-1967; 1969; 1971-1972; 1976; 1984
Description: Livingston

Dates: 1946; 1954; 1956; 1960; 1962-1963; 1965-1966; 1968; 1971; 1973-1974; 1976-1977; 1979; 1982
Description: Miles City

Dates: 1960; 1962; 1964-1967; 1969; 1971; 1973; 1975-1976
Description: Missoula

Dates: 1922; 1927-1929; 1938; 1940-1941; 1943; 1945; 1948; 1952; 1955-1956; 1958-1959; 1961-1962; 1964-1982; 1987
Description: Sidney

Dates: 1964-1965; 1971

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Corporate Names

R.L. Polk and Co

Geographical Names

Anaconda (Mont.)-Directories
Billings (Mont.)-Directories
Butte (Mont.)-Directories
Columbia Falls (Mont.)-Directories
Dillon (Mont.)-Directories
Glasgow (Mont.)-Directories
Glendive (Mont.)-Directories
Great Falls (Mont.)-Directories
Hamilton (Mont.)-Directories
Hardin (Mont.)-Directories
Havre (Mont.)-Directories
Helena (Mont.)-Directories
Kalispell (Mont.)-Directories
Lewiston (Mont.)-Directories
Livingston (Mont.)-Directories
Miles City (Mont.)-Directories
Missoula (Mont.)--Directories
Sidney (Mont.)-Directories
Whitefish (Mont.)-Directories

Form or Genre Terms

Directories-Montana

Montana City Directory Collection, 1890-1982

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