Montana Historical SocietyPhotograph Archives
Lot 008
Silver Bow County (Mont.).
Health Department
Silver Bow County Sanitary Conditions report
photographs
1908-1912
1 box
134 photographic prints
This collection contains photographs taken to illustrate a
"Report of Investigation of Sanitary Conditions in Mines and of the Conditions Under Which
the Miners Live in Silver Bow County", 1908-1912. The images show sanitary conditions in
Butte neighborhoods, local dairies, the county hospital, and underground mines. Each
photograph has the description which accompanied it in the report.
English
The photographs in this collection accompanied a report entitled "Report of Investigation
of Sanitary Conditions in Mines, and of the Conditions Under Which the Miners Live in Silver
Bow County." This report presented the findings of a study of sanitary conditions in below
ground and surface workings of the Butte mines, residences in Butte and Silver Bow County,
local dairies, and the county hospital or poor farm. This investigation was probably
undertaken by county health officials and was an attempt to determine the causes of wide
spread incidence of tuberculosis in Silver Bow County. The data was collected during the
years 1908-1912.
These photographs show sanitary conditions found by the inspectors in the Butte mines, in a
few of the dairies adjacent to Butte, around dwellings and boarding houses, and conditions
found at the county poor farm from 1908 to 1912. The photographs include views of the
Anaconda, Gagnon, Little Minah, Never Sweat, Original, St. Lawrence, and Stewart mines, as
well as mines that are not identified. The dairies photographed were the Crescent, Imperial,
North Star, Reliable, Springtown, and Summit Valley. Photographs of residences often include
street addresses and show exterior views of yards and streets. The photographs were taken in
Butte, Centerville, Meaderville, and Walkerville.
The photographs in this collection are unattributed.
The photographs were arranged by subject and organized into four subject-based series:
Series I. Dairies, Series II. Hospitals, Series III. Houses, and Series IV. Mines
Collection is open for research.
The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Photograph Archives
collections and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses.
Written permission must be obtained from the Photograph Archives before any reproduction
use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in its
collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization
from the copyright owners.
Silver Bow County Sanitary Conditions report photographs. Lot 008. [Box and folder number.]
Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, Helena, Montana.
Acquisition information available upon request.
The photographs were transferred from the Archives, SC 89, and accessioned under PAc
75-31.
The collection was reprocessed by Rebecca Kohl in 1995.
See the "Report of Investigation of Sanitary Conditions in Mines and of the Conditions
Under Which the Miners Live in Silver Bow County", SC 89, for related manuscript
materials.
This collection is indexed under the following headings. Researchers desiring materials
about related topics, persons, or places should search under these terms.
Sanitation -- Montana -- Butte
Butte (Mont.)
Montana
Photographic prints
Miners
City and Town
Life
Labor
History
Mines and Mineral
Resources
Montana
Photographs
Series I
Dairies
1 / 1
Crescent, Summit Valley, Springtown, North Star,
Reliable, Imperial and East Side dairies (includes views of barns, milk houses, milk
cans, cattle, dog and stable in Butte)
1908-1912
Series II
Hospitals
1 / 2
Silver Bow County Hospital (interior views with
hospital equipment and beds, men sitting and lying in beds)
1908-1912
Series III
Houses
1 / 3
Butte, Montana: exterior views of residences and yards
at East Mercury, East Park, East Transit, and South Dakota Streets (includes refuse in
back yard of the Florence Hotel, chickens, piles of manure, privies, and washing on
line)
1908-1912
1 / 4
Butte, Montana: exterior views of residences and back
yards at East Park, East Broadway, Lee Avenue, East Mercury North Wyoming, West
Center, East LaPlatte, North Montana, and Second Avenue (includes toliets, children at
play, sewers, women, refuse, manure piles, washing on line, goats, turkey, stove,
alleys, and chickens)
1908-1912
1 / 5
Centerville area of Butte, Montana: exterior views of
residences with back yards at O'Neill, Bennett, Laplatte and Minah Streets (includes
children with dogs, manure, goats, refuse, laundry, geese, and a cow) and Big
Butte.
1908-1912
1 / 6
Meaderville, Montana: rear of Main Street (includes
man with foot on a barrel, refuse in street)
1908-1912
1 / 7
Walkerville, Montana: exterior views of residences and
yards at Transit and West Daly Streets with manure piles and privies
1908-1912
Series IV
Mines
1 / 8
Miners at Stewart and Gagnon Mines, ventilator shaft,
showers, washroom, lockers, "dry", explosives, toilet cars in Original Mine and
hoist
1908-1912
1 / 9
Miners, toilet car, drill, ventilation tubes and
shafts, mine railroad car, lantern, water tank, and fungus on timbers
1908-1912
1 / 10
The "Dry" at Stewart Mine, lockers, washroom, toilet,
miners, Little Minah Mine, horses and stables underground, jacks, drills, mine
railroad car, powder magazine, ventilation pipes, and hoists
1908-1912
1 / 11
Miners, toilet, mine railroad cars, shift bosses
eating, jack in Mountain Consolidated Mine, mouth of shaft with hoist, water pump,
horse and barn
1908-1912
1 / 12
Miners at mouth of shaft at Never Sweat Mine, horses
and stables in St. Lawrence Mine, mouth of shaft and goat at Anaconda Mine, electric
fan, fire doors, John P. O'Neill, hoisting engine
1908-1912