Marion "Minnie" Porterfield was born in Kansas in March 1879. She moved to Missoula, Montana by 1911 to teach at the Roosevelt School. She joined the Montana Mountaineers in its inaugural year of 1922. As a Mountaineer, Porterfield held the positions of Secretary and Musical Director. She taught in Missoula until her retirement from the Central School in 1944. She died on 24 September 1972.
The Marion Porterfield photograph albums consist of three albums: one dating from 1922-1931, one from 1932-1938, and one with photos from 1936-1942. Many of the photographs are of hikes taken by the Montana Mountaineers in or around Missoula, Montana. These locations include Rattlesnake Creek, Pattee Canyon, Blue Mountain, and Mount Sentinel. The scrapbooks also include photographs taken in Glacier National Park, the Canadian Rockies, Swan Valley (Montana), Garnet, the National Bison Range, Polson, and an expedition in 1933 down the Pacific Coast to Oakland, California.
The albums also contain portraits that are not likely related to the Montana Mountaineers.
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Marion Porterfield Photograph Albums, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
The Marion Porterfield photo albums came into possession of her great-niece Alice Vroman before being donated to the Mansfield Library.
Alice Vroman donated the collection to the Mansfield Library in 2005.
Loose materials in the collection have been placed in envelopes and enclosed in the album in which the materials were found.
The Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections holds a set of
Montana Mountaineers scrapbooks (Mss 529), as well as the Montana Mountaineers
newsletter titled
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