Montana Society of Engineers records, 1887-2025

The constitution, by-laws, and related materials; minutes; photocopied published reports of the MSE appearing in Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies; materials from the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE); Chapter and Committee records; assorted papers collected and possibly presented at meetings; 3 financial ledgers; assorted conference, meeting and proceedings papers and bulletins; records of Gold Medal winners; an incomplete subject index; research papers of Kathleen Hendricks; oral history tapes and an oral history transcript of early MSE member of Arthur E. Adami, Sr.; ribbons and other ephemera including a 1916 song book of the Society. The original cassette tapes of Adami's interview have been removed from Box 8, folder 13, for storage elsewhere.

Application forms and early membership rolls followed by updated membership lists up through 1957. Membership applications are in chronological order, and some have oaths of fealty, resignation letters and memorial letters attached. There are two ledgers that incompletely list the dues collections for members during 1909 to 1937. Finally there are file cards (Box 11) that should have all members listed chronologically. The cards have notations as follows: Left top is the name and address, company or position of the member, right top has the date voted into membership and an asterisk to indicate a charter member, æO.M.' to indicate an organizing member, æC.M.' to indicate a corresponding member, æA.M.' to indicate an associate member and æH.M.' to indicate an honorary member. In the middle left are lists of references to the member. The reference notations are C= correspondence; M= minutes; and # = year. For example, a C-39 notation means a reference in the 1939 correspondence file; an M-39 notation would refer to a reference in the minutes of 1939. M.A. represents a membership application which sometimes shows that it was rejected as unqualified. On the right middle are listed the year of offices held and also resignations, and dates of death for active members.

Index cards listing subjects of correspondence, followed by the chronologically sorted letters related to regular business of the Society and assorted special issues and concerns, along with replies from Montana organizations and industries listing their annual accomplishments in response to a yearly request from the society. There are also exchanges about scheduling of meetings, chapter news, and recommendations for papers and medal candidates, and associated materials.