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Montana Statehood Centennial Commission and Office Records, 1982-1991

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Montana Statehood Centennial Commission and Office
Title
Montana Statehood Centennial Commission and Office Records
Dates
1982-1991 (inclusive)
Quantity
14 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
RS 2
Summary
This collection (1985-1991) consists of materials produced by the Montana Statehood Centennial Commission and Office during its preparations for centennial celebrations. Records include correspondence, license files, grant applications and agreements, financial records, minutes, subject files, newsletters, video and audio cassettes, clippings, and miscellany. [Video cassette tapes transferred to Photograph Archives.]
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

The 1983 Montana Legislative Assembly passed Senate Joint Resolution 21 recognizing the approaching Montana Statehood Centennial and urging the governor to make recommendations to the 1985 Legislative Assembly on formal centennial observances. In response to this resolution, Governor Ted Schwinden appointed Lieutenant Governor George Turman to coordinate the official response. Turman concentrated on three areas: volunteer citizen involvement, interagency cooperation, and communication with other centennial states in the region. To encourage citizen participation, Turman created "The Eighty-Niners", a volunteer organization with local chapters around the state. The Eighty-Niners solicited suggestions concerning possible celebrations, published a newsletter, and its local affiliates sponsored many local events. The Centennial Commission sponsored several projects among which were the issuing of special Centennial license plates to finance grants for local projects; the Century Citizens Project, honoring Montanans who would be 100 years old by 1989; and the Centennial Acres Project, selling certificates of "ownership" in several State Parks and sites. The main focus of the work of the Centennial Office, however, became the licensing of officially sanctioned products, events, and projects. The Office received 1,068 applications for licensing, most of which were approved. These applications included museum exhibits, musical events, parades, rodeos, plays, pageants, tree plantings, art work, books, belt buckles, lapel pins, baseball caps, etc. Money from license plate sales funded a small number of grants to worthy projects. The Centennial celebration's grand finale was the Centennial Ball held in Helena November 11, 1989. The final event of the year-long celebration was the burying of a time capsule on January 23, 1990.

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Content Description

Records include general correspondence (1984-1990), which is primarily outgoing correspondence, but also includes some incoming correspondence, interoffice memoranda, circular letters to the Centennial Commission members, and correspondence of lieutenant governors Allen Kolstad and Gordon McOmber. The bulk of the incoming letters were filed in the subject files. Case files include grant agreements, grant applications, and license applications. The grant applicants also appear in the license application files, but the numbering system is totally separate. There are indexes to all three sets of files to assist in locating the files. Indexes to the grant agreements and grant applications are only by number. Indexes to the license application are arranged by number, by applicant, by town, and by type of project. Financial records (1984-1990) include budget materials, audits, financial reports, and State Budget and Accounting System (SBAS) reports. Legal documents consist of contracts for services (1988-1989). There is a complete set of Commission minutes (1985-1990), including agendas, lists of license applications to be discussed, and related material. In addition there are minutes of the Archiving Committee. [Minutes also exist on cassette tape.] The subject file consists of relations with other states' centennial committees, files on the Centennial Acre program, files on the design of the centennial logo, brief biographical data on centenarians nominated as Century Citizens, writings by Northern Cheyenne students at Dull Knife Memorial College, centennial birthday cards sent in by school children, and files on proposed centennial events and products. Many of these last files expand on the materials submitted with the license application. There is an extensive clipping file, focusing primarily on the Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive, but also documenting a wide range of other centennial events. [Tapes of minutes, radio programs, etc. ......]

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

This collection is arranged by series.

Location of Collection

17:5-6

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

  • General Correspondence

    • Description: A-B (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1-3
    • Description: Centennial colleagues and vendors (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
    • Description: Centennial Commission members and staff (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
    • Description: Centennial file memos
      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
    • Description: Centennial States Caucus Coordinating Council (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
    • Description: Constitutional Connections Committee
      Dates: 1986-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
    • Description: County Treasurers (re Centennial license plate sales)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
    • Description: C (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10-11
    • Description: Ken Dunham (re 1964 Centennial High School Band)
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
    • Description: D (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
    • Description: Eighty-niner newsletter
      Dates: 1987-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
    • Description: E (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
    • Description: Dorothy Floerchinger
      Dates: 1984-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
    • Description: F-G (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17-18
    • Description: Emily J. Horswill (re novel)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19
    • Description: H (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20-21
    • Description: Inter-Agency Task Force for Centennial Coordination
      Dates: 1985-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
    • Description: I (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
    • Description: Jon Jost (filmmaker re Vigilantes)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24
    • Description: J (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 25
    • Description: Allen Kolstad
      Dates: 1988-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 26
    • Description: K (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 27
    • Description: William H. Leininger Jr. (re planned pageant)
      Dates: 1985-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 28
    • Description: L (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 29-30
    • Description: Gordon McOmber
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 31
    • Description: Montana (includes Montana bankers, Montana Historical Society, Montana Institute of the Arts, Montana Journal, Montana Street Rod Association)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 32
    • Description: Alice K. Montin (re "The Day God Made Montana")
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 33
    • Description: M-Q (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 34-41
    • Description: Rocky Mountain Association of Fairs
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 42
    • Description: R-V (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 43-47
    • Description: Wally Byam Caravan Club International (Airstream trailer rally in Bozeman)
      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 48
    • Description: W-Z (predominantly outgoing letters)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 49-50
    • Description: Chronological file (re wind-up of affairs of Centennial Office business)
      Dates: 1989-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 51
  • Case Files

    • Description: Grant agreements #1-42 (list in first folder, several missing)
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1-5
    • Description: Grant application log
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
    • Description: Grant applications #1-122 (several missing)
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7-25
    • Description: Grant applications [no numbers]
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 26
    • Description: License lists: applicants by number
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 27
    • Description: License lists: applicants by name
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 28
    • Description: License lists: applicants by city
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 29
    • Description: License lists: applicants by type of project
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 30
    • Description: License lists: sanctioned products by name
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 31
    • Description: License lists: sanctioned projects by city
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 32
    • Description: License applications and licenses #1-15
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 33-46
    • Description: License applications and licenses #16-140 [several missing]
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1-106
    • Description: License applications and licenses #141-315 [several missing]
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1-167
    • Description: License applications and licenses #316-510 [several missing]
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1-192
    • Description: License applications and licenses #511-700 [several missing]
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1-192
    • Description: License applications and licenses #701-925 [several missing]
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1-221
    • Description: License applications and licenses #926-1068 [several missing]
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1-139
  • Financial Records

    • Description: Accounting system
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 140
    • Description: Accounts payable
      Dates: 1985-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 141
    • Description: Audits
      Dates: 1988-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 142
    • Description: Budget materials
      Dates: 1984-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 143
    • Description: Eighty-Niner Newsletter
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 144
    • Description: Encumbered funds
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 145
    • Description: Financial reports
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 146
    • Description: Financial reports: royalty on licensed products
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 147
    • Description: Financial reports: sale of Centennial license plates
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 148- 149
    • Description: Grants to counties: sale of Centennial license plates
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 150
    • Description: Receipts
      Dates: 1985-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 151- 152
    • Description: Receipts
      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1-2
    • Description: SBAS reports
      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 3-4
  • Legal Documents

    • Description: Contracts for services
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 5
  • Minutes

    • Description: Meeting minutes, agendas, etc.
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 6-21
    • Description: Archiving Committee minutes
      Dates: 1990 February
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 22
  • Organization

    • Description: Staff position descriptions, etc.
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 23
  • Press Releases

    • Description: Press releases
      Dates: 1983-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 24-27
  • Reports

    • Description: "Celebrating the State's 100th Birthday: a Summary of Early Planning Efforts for Montana's Statehood Centennial in 1989"
      Dates: 1982 December
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 28
    • Description: "Statehood Centennial Planning," Lieutenant Governor George Turman to Legislature
      Dates: 1985 February
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 29
  • Speeches

    • Description: Speeches given at Centennial events by Lieutenant Governor Allen Kolstad, Leo Ellingson, Mike Cooney, and unidentified
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 30
  • Subject Files

    • Description: Affiliates; '89ers chapters
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 31
    • Description: "Appreciation Event"
      Dates: 1989 December
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 32
    • Description: Arts Committee (includes Montana Arts Council, Arts Committee of the Centennial Celebrations)
      Dates: 1985-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 33
    • Description: Arts Events inventory responses
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 34
    • Description: Background: 1964 Territorial Centennial
      Dates: 1963-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 35
    • Description: Background: 1976 American Revolution Bicentennial
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 36
    • Description: Canada (re trade relations, Expo 86, etc.)
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 37
    • Description: Catalog of official products (re production problems, etc.)
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 38
    • Description: Centennial Acres (includes correspondence, contracts, design, legislation)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 39-42
    • Description: Centennial Acres (includes order print-outs)
      Dates: 1985-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1-10
    • Description: Centennial Acre I: Headwaters State Park
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 11
    • Description: Centennial Acre II: Homestead (Roosevelt County)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 12
    • Description: Centennial Acre III: Bannack State Park
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 13
    • Description: Centennial Acre IV: Glacier Acre (Upper Thompson Lake)
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 14
    • Description: Centennial Ball
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 15
    • Description: Centennial flags (sold and borrowed)
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 16
    • Description: Centennial float
      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 17
    • Description: Centennial granite (pieces salvaged from Capitol renovation)
      Dates: 1986-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 18
    • Description: Centennial kick-off workshop
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 19
    • Description: Centennial license places (includes correspondence, design, history of Montana license plates, refunds)
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 20-23
    • Description: Centennial logo (correspondence)
      Dates: 1985-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 24
    • Description: Centennial logo (design contest entries #1-147: list in first folder)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 25-30
    • Description: Centennial logo (design contest judging and finalists)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 31
    • Description: Centennial Marketing Inc. (correspondence with Jack Beatty, legal, sales and royalty reports, belt buckles, lapel pins, etc.)
      Dates: 1987-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 32-33
    • Description: Centennial properties (list of properties National Register properties and Centennial sites; arranged by county)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 34
    • Description: "Centennial Sal" (hitch-hiking mannequin from Jefferson School, Helena)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 35
    • Description: Centennial time capsule
      Dates: 1989-1991
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 1
    • Description: Centennial video by North Country Media Group
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 2
    • Description: Century Citizen Project (includes correspondence, Lewistown ceremony)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 3-4
    • Description: Century Citizen Project (lists by name, town, date)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 5
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: A (includes Erminia Albertini, Emma Gilbert Albro, Ingeborg Alvstad, Jennie Sanders Anderson, Adrai Atkinson, Wallace Avrel)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 6
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: B (includes Florence Carter Backus, Earl Bailey, Medora Baird, Essie Ballard, Mary Anna Barclay, James Barron, Eliza Bartlett, Laura Bartlett, Effie Amelia Bauer, Ella Louise Marr Beals, Anna Beniger, Selma Birk, Helen Blessing, Leona Bonnet Mary Bosckis, Nell Bowery, Edna Mowre Boyer, Celia Brenden, Agness Brown, Elizabeth Brown, Thomas Browning, William Buchholz, Meta Buller, Lorena Burgess, Orr Burgett, Joe Burke)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 7-9
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: C (includes Vi Calmettes, Vera Alice Carkeet, Martha Carlson, Mina Carolus, Myrtle Carrico, Viola Chaffin, Selma Christiansen, Oline Christiansen, Christ O. Christiansen, Ella Churchill, Rosa Clark, Chester Clement, Eva Cleveland, Myrtle Clingingsmith, Harry Clocksin, Teresa Cobetto, Katherine Collier, Neil Conway, Callista Shay Conwell, Ina Louise Cook, John Reaves Cook, Elsie Cooley, Laura Crosby, Gertrude Crowley, Christine Crupper)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 10-14
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: D (includes Betsy Jacobsen Dahl, Frances Darby, Jenny Bruna Datres, Elsie Davenport, Margaret Davis, Ray Dickerson, Dora Dickert, Frieda Kruse Dira, Alice Ditsworth, Alma Dolven, Ida Mae Douglas, Byron Downer, Charlotte Dresen, Tillie Vanous Duffy, Anna Dunbar, Idoniea Duntley, Bert Dye)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 15-17
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: E (includes George Ebner, Barbara Edmonds, Amelia Eisele, Mabel Elliott, Edna Emary, Catherine Esplin, Genie Estell, Anfin Estrem, Jessie Estrin, Etta Evans)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 18
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: F (includes Dirk Fabrick, William Farnum, Margaret Farrell, Hazel Akeley Fergus, Clyde Fickes, Margaret Foote, Ethel Beatrice Ford, Tina Wilkins Frey, Thea Fynskov)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 19
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: G (includes Sadie Martin Goldberg, Anna Gookin, Goldie Thompson Grant, Katherine Grant, James Gratz, Phoebe Cuddles Grazier, Fern Gregg, Ruth Gregory, Emma Grindheim, William Grose, Mary "Grass Woman" Ground, Christine Gunter, Ella Nelson Gussenhoven, Eugenie Guyonnet)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 20-22
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: H (includes Karen Hanson, Bernice Harkelroth, Freda Harkins, Adelaide Harms, Carrie Harrison, James Hartley, Margaret Harmann, Frank Heck, Selma Heck, Vic Hillstrom, Ina Buckmaster Hoblitt, May Busch Hodson, Otis Hoekema, William Hoffman, Jessie Holman, Dora Holmberg, Elizabeth Hopkins, Nina Horan, Esther Hough, Katie Huether, Tressie Hughes, Gertrude Humphrey)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 23-24
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: I-J (includes Jim Ingram, Ellen Marie Irons, Caroline Jackson, Lillian Jamieson, Charles Jenkinson, Cora Johnson, Mary C. Johnson, Marie Ethel Johnson, Tina Stallcop Jones)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 25
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: K (includes Lulu Kaiser, Mary Kanduch, Minnie Karnes, Edna Keenan, Ethel Keith, Lambert Kelley, James O. Kenyon, Rosina Kesler, Mattie Kinney, Esther Kircheis, Edith Kirgan, Jessie Kittleson, Tom Kjorlien, Emma Konopatzke, Sid Kornelis, Clarence Kuhl)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 26-27
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: L (includes Jacob Lacher, Kathryn Marie Ladner, Jacob Laubscher, Mary Rodes Leaphart, Lilian Tucker Lear, Gertrude Leavens, Ethel "Zoe" Leckey, Oline Lee, John Lippert, Della Logan, Etta Mae McCamm Logan, Sara Lohn, Eva Lovelace, Margaret Low, Anna Ludeman, Edward Luger, Josephine Lykken)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 28-29
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: M (includes Amelia Magnani, Maude Managhan, Karen Mang, Pierina Marchello, Elizabeth Marshall, Mathias Martinz, Antonia Mata, Roland Matthews, Mary Bacon Mattovich, Blanche Melaney, Goldie Metcalf, Marie Miller, Bessie Kerlee Monroe, Olga Muir, Alice Mundy, Stazzie Murr, Minnie Myerhaugen, Marie Myers)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 30-31
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: Mc and Mac (includes Mary Eller McCann, Catharine Calk McCarty, Theresa McCoy, Julia Emily McDonald, William MacDonald, Florence McEachren, Mary Lavinia McEwen [includes correspondence and reminiscence], Emma McGowan, Frances Wright McIntosh, Esther McLachlan)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 32
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: N-O (includes Iyo Saito Nagashima, Merle Nelson, Estelle Nestor, Mary Carey Nicholls, Clara Luan Nielsen [includes reminiscence], Ed Noble, Bertha Nygard, Ruth Gullekson Ofstedal, Sella Oksness, Jentoff Olson, Clarence Owens)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 33
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: P (includes Alvina Pancake, James Patten, Anna Perrott, Arthur Perry, Mette Petersen, Leonard Peterson, Mathilde Peterson, Fred Pfeiffer, Petrina Pogreba, Julia Poirier, Anna Poole, Grace Metcalf Prigan, Lizzie Pritchett, Hattie Mae Proost, Elizabeth "Buff" Purdum)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 34
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: Q-R (includes May Quaintance, Minnie Ragan, Amelia Rapp, Mary Reed, Jacob Renz, Lena Slager Rew, Romeo Richard, Ella Ross, Cora Rost, Oluf Roys, Mary Ruckman, Mary Rutter)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 35
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: S (includes Ruth Sanders, Minnie Sassman, Vera Saveresy, Caroline Schlepp, Hazel Schmidt, Bertha Schnaidt, John Shaffner, Niza Shaw, Alvina Shea, Mary Sheets, Nellie Shelton, Cornelia Sherman, Esther Shoaf, Mattie Shook, Beulah Shore, Cora Stewart Siddens, John Klausen Simonsen, Jacob Skartved, Joesef Skryja, Dulcie Slee, Clara Smith, Edith Smith, Theodore Solland, Anna Wiprud Sollid, George Sollid, Emma Spahr, Percy Sparling, Willie Spaulding, Daisy Spint, Forrest Steen, Bill Stephenson, Dorothy Stewart, Jeannette Summers, Alice Susag, Ed Swingen)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 36-40
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: T (includes Margaret Thomas, Julia Thompson, Thorval "Ted" Thompson, Jesse Trafton, Grace Trees, Dora Trotter, Elizabeth Tvaruzek, Sam Tweedy, Laura Tyler)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 41
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: V (includes Aldo Vaira, Mary Van Gieson, Jacob Van Wechel, Maggie Vorhies)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 42
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: W (includes Nina Waber, Helen Wagner, May Wiley Walters, Simon Warrington, Nelle Sadler Webb, Victor Weber, Bertina Dolven Weber, Letty Wesin, Louise Sueltz Wessel, Mary Wessel, Andrew Westerdale, Anna Westlake, Georgia Whipps, Olga Wigen, Mary Wilcox, Maybelle Wilcox, Frost Wilder, Winifred Williams, Viola Williams, Irene Geary Wilson, Clara Finsley Wise, Clara Wise, Clara Wolfinbarger, Frances Wollcott, Mary Wynne)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 43-46
    • Description: Century Citizen Project: Y-Z (includes Robert Yellowtail, Harriet Young, Flora Zanto, Elizabeth Zigan Zimber, Pete Zimmer)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 47
    • Description: City and county centennials (list)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 48
    • Description: Commissioners (resumes, correspondence, etc.)
      Dates: 1985-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 49
    • Description: Constitutional Connections Committee
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 50
    • Description: Contributions and donations
      Dates: 1985-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 51
    • Description: Corporate sponsorship
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 52
    • Description: Dull Knife Memorial College, Northern Cheyenne Reservation (includes essays by Rosella Killsnight, Lucille Big Fire, Paul Youngblood, Gail Tallwhiteman, Roserita Goodface)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 53
    • Description: "Fifty Ways to Mark Montana's Centennial"; "100 Ideas for Montana's 100th Birthday"; "Centennial Suggestions"
      Dates: 1985-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 54
    • Description: First Bank, Helena (book project, contribution)
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 55
    • Description: Governor's Inaugural Ball
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 56
    • Description: Grants (includes finances, procedures, etc. of grants given by Centennial Office)
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 57-58
    • Description: Great Falls Centennial Committee
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 59
    • Description: "The Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive" (includes correspondence, proposal, insurance, brochures, etc.)
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 60-62
    • Description: "The Great Montana Centennial Sheep Drive"
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 63
    • Description: Green Thumb Program (includes brochures, and hiring of Green Thumb workers by Centennial Office)
      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 64
    • Description: Historical background and chronologies
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 65
    • Description: "Home Sweet Dome" (mock election for state capital site)
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 66
    • Description: Interagency Task Force for Centennial Coordination (includes correspondence and minutes)
      Dates: 1982-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 67
    • Description: Last Spike Centennial (Northern Pacific Railroad)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 68
    • Description: Lewis and Clark Expedition / Centennial Coordinating Committee
      Dates: 1984-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 69
    • Description: Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 70
    • Description: Liberty Day (Statue of Liberty restoration)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 71
    • Description: Local history (brief sketches of towns and counties; also includes 1910 forest fires and 1964 flood)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 72
    • Description: Media contact
      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 73
    • Description: "Montana-Canadian Friendship Day"
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 74
    • Description: Montana Centennial Organizing Conference and Vendor Fair
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 1
    • Description: Montana Centennial Sled Dog Race Circuit (Charles Van Hook)
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 2
    • Description: Montana Centennial Stamp
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 3
    • Description: Montana Centennial Wagon Train
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 4
    • Description: Montana Committee on the U.S. Constitutional System
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 5
    • Description: Montana Community Foundation Inc. (includes constitution, bylaws, correspondence, related material)
      Dates: 1984-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 6
    • Description: Montana Historical Society
      Dates: 1983-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 7
    • Description: "Montana in the Year 2089" (student essay contest)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 8-9
    • Description: The Montana Jefferson Meetings (re bicentennial of U. S. Constitution)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 10
    • Description: Montana Legislature (includes act creating Statehood Centennial Commission, centennial resolution, administrative rule changes, resolutions for past celebrations)
      Dates: 1925-1939, 1984-1985
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 11-12
    • Description: Montana Picnic in Central Park, New York
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 13
    • Description: Mountain Bell '89ers chapter (includes membership and suggestions)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 14
    • Description: National Capitol Christmas Tree
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 15
    • Description: Native American involvement in Centennial
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 16
    • Description: Northwest Centennial: Centennial States Caucus (includes minutes of annual meetings and related material)
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 17
    • Description: Northwest Centennial: Documents West Project
      Dates: 1988-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 18
    • Description: Northwest Centennial: Idaho
      Dates: 1986-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 19
    • Description: Northwest Centennial: North Dakota
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 20-21
    • Description: Northwest Centennial: South Dakota
      Dates: 1985-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 22
    • Description: Northwest Centennial: "Voyage of the Centennial Messenger" (school exercises to celebrate centennial in six-state region)
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 23
    • Description: Northwest Centennial: Washington
      Dates: 1983-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 24-26
    • Description: Northwest Centennial: Wyoming
      Dates: 1985-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 27
    • Description: Office inventory
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 28
    • Description: Other states: Arkansas Sesquicentennial
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 29
    • Description: Other states: Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 30-31
    • Description: Other states: Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 1
    • Description: Other states: Colorado Centennial / Bicentennial final report
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 2
    • Description: Other states: Michigan Sesquicentennial report
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 3
    • Description: Other states: Tennessee Homecoming '86
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 4
    • Description: Other states: Texas Sesquicentennial commemorative products list
      Dates: 1985-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 5
    • Description: Other states: Virginia Cultural Laureate Awards
      Dates: 1977-1981
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 6
    • Description: Other states: miscellaneous
      Dates: 1983-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 7
    • Description: Parades
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 8
    • Description: "A Passion for Peace" (Nadine Arlyn portrayal of Jeannette Rankin)
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 9
    • Description: "Pillars of the Past" (St. John's Home Foundation)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 10
    • Description: President George Bush visit [photos]
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 11
    • Description: Proclamation of statehood [photocopy]
      Dates: 1889
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 12
    • Description: Proclamations and resolutions
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 13
    • Description: Product and project proposals
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 14
    • Description: Products (approvals)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 15
    • Description: Projects: Blackfeet Country, by Pat Lawshe (re planned tourist brochures)
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 16
    • Description: Projects: Eureka Community Hall
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 17
    • Description: Projects: Music in Montana (re planned history of music in Montana)
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 18
    • Description: Proposals: Montana Carriage Company
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 19
    • Description: Proposals: Mountain Visions (re planned slide shows)
      Dates: 1984-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 20
    • Description: Proposals: Rolf Olson, Montana Outdoor Leadership Expedition video
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 21
    • Description: Proposals: PS, a Partnership (Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith production of opera Pamelia)
      Dates: 1984-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 22
    • Description: Proposals: Jo Ann Rachele, Folklife Festival
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 23
    • Description: Proposals: Mona Vanek (history of Noxon)
      Dates: 1985-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 24
    • Description: Proposals: Paul Wilson (Montana Atlas)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 25
    • Description: Red Lodge Grizzly Peak-a-Boos (can-can dancers)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 26
    • Description: Red Lodge Mountain Man Rendezvous
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 27
    • Description: Religious Heritage Days
      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 28
    • Description: Requests for proposals: advertising and public relations
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 29
    • Description: Requests for proposals: processing Centennial Acres deeds
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 30
    • Description: Requests for proposals: video; miscellaneous
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 31
    • Description: Requests for proposals: video, North Country Media Group
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 31
    • Description: Willard Scott visit (NBC Today Show) [photos]
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 32
    • Description: State and Territorial warrants (correspondence, orders, information re bounty warrants)
      Dates: 1985-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 33-34
    • Description: State telephone book (Centennial theme on cover)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 35
    • Description: Students: Bozeman, Anderson School birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 37
    • Description: Students: Columbia Falls High School scrapbook (re "Echoes of the Past" play)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 38
    • Description: Students: Columbus Elementary School wagon project
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 39
    • Description: Students: Deer Lodge, Granville Stuart Elementary School (letters re President Bush visit)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 40
    • Description: Students: East Glacier schools logo entries
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 41
    • Description: Students: Florence Elementary School birthday cards and thank yous
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 42-43
    • Description: Students: Fort Peck School birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 44
    • Description: Students: Glasgow, Irle School birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 45
    • Description: Students: Glendive, Washington School birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 46
    • Description: Students: Harrison School birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 47
    • Description: Students: Havre, Cottonwood School birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 48
    • Description: Students: Kremlin-Gildford Elementary School birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 49
    • Description: Students: Madison County schools birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder OvFd / 1
    • Description: Students: Missoula, Hawthorne School birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 50
    • Description: Students: Oakley family birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 51
    • Description: Students: Polson Middle School RC Cola logo
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 52
    • Description: Students: unidentified schools birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 53
    • Description: Students: unidentified schools birthday cards
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 1-2
    • Description: Suggestions
      Dates: 1982-1988
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 3
    • Description: Television production on northwest region (proposed)
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 4
    • Description: Time capsule
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 5
    • Description: Trademark registration and permission to use state seal
      Dates: 1984-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 6
    • Description: United States Constitution bi-centennial
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 7
  • Writings

    • Description: "The Bright Side of Montana's Centennial", by Tom Daubert
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 8
    • Description: '89ers mailing list sign-ups [scattered]
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 9-10
  • Miscellany

    • Description: Certificates of recognition issued
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 11
    • Description: Licensing form letters
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 12
    • Description: Licensing rules and forms
      Dates: 1986-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 13
    • Description: Lists: appreciation certificates
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 14
    • Description: Lists: books
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 15
    • Description: Lists: Centennial Commission members
      Dates: 1985-1990
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 16
    • Description: Lists: status reports on products
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 17
    • Description: Lists: Montana Historical Society library and museum (items sent to)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 18
    • Description: "Notable Montana Events since 1889" (compiled by Historical Research Associates)
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 19
    • Description: "Your Classroom and the Montana Centennial," by Larry Anderson, Helena High School
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 20
  • Clippings

    • Description: re "Boots and Saddles," (Bill Leininger pageant re George Armstrong Custer)
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 21
    • Description: Centennial Ball
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 22
    • Description: Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 23-30
    • Description: Great Montana Centennial Cattle Drive: Meagher County News special editions
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 31
    • Description: Great Montana Centennial Sheep Drive
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 32
    • Description: Great Montana Centennial Swine Drive
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 33
    • Description: President George Bush visit to Helena
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 34
    • Description: Wagon trains
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 35
    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes articles on Centennial Commission, on local events, on background, and on related topics)
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 36-47
    • Description: Other states' celebrations
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 48

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Subject Terms

  • Aged--Montana
  • Art
  • Cattle drives--Montana
  • Centennial celebrations--Montana
  • Cheyenne Indians--Montana
  • Rodeos--Montana

Geographical Names

  • Missouri Headwaters State Park (Mont.)
  • Montana--Centennial celebrations, etc.
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