MZFCollection1088.xml Guide to the Virginia W. Thompson Scrapbook1959-1960 Virginia W. Thompson Scrapbook Kim Allen Scott, 2017 Montana State University-Bozeman Library
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Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition) Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 United States Phone (406) 994-4242 Fax (406) 994-2851 http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ University Archivist spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu
Collection 1088, MtBC, us Thompson, Virginia Walker, 1899- Virginia W. Thompson Scrapbook 1959-1960 1 volume The Virginia W. Thompson Scrapbook contains primarily newspaper and magazine clippings from a number of publications all pertaining to the August 17, 1959 earthquake which occurred on the Madison River in the Hegben Lake area. Collection materials are in English Biographical Note

Mary Virginia Walker was born in Crawfordsville, Iowa on April 5, 1899, the daughter of William and Viola May Walker. The family moved to Bozeman, Montana in 1912 where Mary attended the local schools and graduated from the Gallatin County High School in 1918. She married Herbert Ellis Thompson in 1921, and worked as a post office clerk and baker. She was living in Bozeman during the 1959 Madison River earthquake and took a keen interest in the topic, collecting a number of items relating to the disaster. She died in Bozeman on August 23, 1988.

The Virginia W. Thompson scrapbook contains primarily newspaper and magazine clippings from a number of publications all pertaining to the August 17, 1959 earthquake which occurred on the Madison River in the Hegben Lake area. A number of laid-in items, including whole issues of the Boezman Daily Chronicle, the Billings Gazette, and the Great Falls Tribune are also in the collection.

This collection is open for research.

An original scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings pertaining to the 1959 Madison River earthquake in Montana created by Virginia W. Thompson was donated to Montana State University by her on September 5, 1973.

This collection was processed 2017 February 8

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