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Barclay Craighead Papers, 1924-1949

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Craighead, Barclay, 1895-1978
Title
Barclay Craighead Papers
Dates
1924-1949 (inclusive)
Quantity
6.5 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 182 (collection)
Summary
Barclay Craighead served as secretary to U.S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, secretary of the Wheeler for President Club, secretary of the Montana Democratic State Central Committee, director of the Federal Housing Administration in Helena, and as chairman of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of Montana. This collection (1924-1949) consists of correspondence, writings, clippings, printed materials, photographs, and miscellany relating to Craighead's various positions.
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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Biographical Note

Barclay Craighead was born in Clemson, South Carolina, on April 10, 1895, the son of Edwin Boone and Kate A. Johnson Craighead. The Craigheads had two other children, Edwin Boone, Jr., and Catherine. E.B. Craighead served as president of Clemson College, Central College in Missouri, and Tulane University in New Orleans. In 1912 he resigned from the presidency of Tulane and assumed the presidency of Montana State University in Missoula, a post he held until 1915, when his controversial efforts to consolidate the state's university system led to his dismissal. With his sons, E.B. Craighead re-established and operated The New Northwest, a Democratic newspaper in Missoula. E.B. Craighead died in October 1920. Barclay, a graduate of Montana State University and Gonzaga University in Spokane, served as business manager of the New Northwest from 1915 until 1918, and as editor of the Daily Northwest from 1918 until 1920. Both papers were owned by the Northwest Publishing Company. From 1921 until 1925, he managed the Iron Mountain Mining Company in Superior, Montana, but returned to the newspaper business in 1925, when he worked for the editorial staff of the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. Craighead returned to Montana in 1926, and worked as chief of the State Division of Labor and Statistics and served as Montana's Real Estate and Publicity Commissioner. In 1932 he was a field auditor for the Montana State Board of Equalization. Barclay Craighead actively participated in Democratic Party affairs. In the 1926, 1928, 1930, and 1932 elections he served as office manager of the Democratic State Central Committee. Under Party Chairman Grover C. Cisel, he served as both office manager and secretary of the Committee in the 1934 and 1936 elections. In 1952 he was the Party's candidate for lieutenant governor. Craighead was a staunch and life-long supporter of Burton K. Wheeler. Craighead editorialized in his newspaper for Wheeler when he ran unsuccessfully for governor against Joseph M. Dixon in 1920. He supported him in his first and successful race for U.S. senator in 1922, and when Wheeler was Progressive Robert LaFollette's vice-presidential running mate in 1924. In 1928 Wheeler defeated Dixon and retained his Senate seat. Craighead campaigned for Wheeler against Republican Judge George M. Bourquin in the Senate campaign of 1934. In 1933 Craighead was hired by Wheeler as his secretary, and worked in the Senator's Washington, D.C., office for two years. Although Craighead returned to Montana in 1935 as head of the Montana Federal Housing Administration, he continued in his capacity as an advisor and supporter of Wheeler. In 1940 Barclay Craighead was instrumental in the formation and operation of the Wheeler for President Club of Montana. In addition to his political activities, Craighead also was involved in political patronage, working to obtain jobs for those who had served the Democratic Party. Barclay Craighead gradually became affiliated with the more conservative elements of the Democratic Party and, in 1938, worked to defeat liberal Democratic Congressman Jerry O'Connell by supporting Butte Republican Jacob Thorkelson. Craighead also supported Republican Governor Sam C. Ford, and retained his position as chairman and executive director of the Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission to which he had been appointed when the Commission was established in 1937. Craighead supported Ford in the 1948 election, but he was fired following Ford's defeat by Democrat John W. Bonner. Craighead, arguing that he held his position through merit and that his removal from office was an attack upon the Merit System, took his case to the Montana Supreme Court. On May 14, 1949, the Supreme Court decided against him and Craighead retired from public service. In addition to his political activities and his public service career, Craighead also was interested financially in radio stations around western Montana. In 1941 he established a radio station in Butte. Craighead was the manager of Helena radio station KXLJ during the 1950s. From 1957 until 1963 he was vice-president of the Z Bar Radio Network, which owned radio stations in Helena, Bozeman, Great Falls, Missoula, and Butte, and TV stations in Butte, Helena, and Spokane. In many of these ventures he collaborated with Butte radio pioneer Ed Craney. Barclay Craighead married Lucille Henry, daughter of Louis C. and Genevieve B. Henry of Helena. The couple had one daughter, Lorraine. Barclay Craighead died at the age of 82 on January 19, 1978.

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Content Description

This collection consists of the papers of Barclay Craighead and is divided into three subgroups: Barclay Craighead personal papers; the Montana Democratic State Central Committee; and the Burton K. Wheeler for President Club of Montana. The Barclay Craighead Subgroup consists of two arrangements of general correspondence. The first (1924-1938) is arranged chronologically; the second (1932-1949) is arranged alphabetically as well as chronologically. Barclay Craighead's correspondence with Burton K. Wheeler's office (1932-1949) is in the second arrangement of correspondence. The correspondence with Wheeler's office includes letters to and from Burton K. Wheeler; Maude Wheeler Mitchell, Wheeler's sister and personal secretary; R. Bailey Stortz, clerk of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee chaired by Wheeler; and others. Also included in the Burton K. Wheeler office correspondence are letters to and from Wheeler during the years Craighead served as a Wheeler secretary (1932-1933). Principal correspondents include Judge E.C. Carruth, Great Falls; Grover C. Cisel, Billings; James V. Bennett, Scobey; J. Burke Clements, Helena; C.H. McLeod, Missoula; William F. Casey, Warm Springs; Rev. Patrick Casey, Deer Lodge; Arthur F. Lamey, Havre; Walter L. Pope, Missoula; C.T. "Sully" Sullivan, Great Falls; E.B. Coolidge, Great Falls; James F. O'Connor, Livingston; B.R. Albin, Billings; Willard E. Fraser, Billings; Louis G. DeNayer, Billings; Leonard "Belgian" Daems, Bozeman; and Sam C. Wallin, Whitefish. Much of the correspondence pertains to political patronage. Also in the Barclay Craighead Subgroup are miscellaneous correspondence (1939-1949, undated); financial records (1937-1949); speeches (1938, undated); subject files (1941, 1946), reflecting, among other things, Craighead's involvement in the Sam C. Ford gubernatorial campaign, Craighead's application for a radio station license, and his association with the Great Falls Broadcasting Company; writings (c.1920, 1931); miscellany, including Burton K. Wheeler speeches and clippings. In the Montana Democratic State Central Committee Subgroup are General Correspondence (1936-1938), including letters pertaining to Craighead's efforts to defeat U.S. Representative Jerry O'Connell; financial records (1928, 1937); minutes (1934); news releases (1936); subject files (1934) concerning the general election; and miscellany. In the Wheeler for President Club of Montana Subgroup are general correspondence (1939-1940) arranged alphabetically and chronologically pertaining for the most part to the Club's attempts to raise support within Montana for Wheeler's candidacy; financial records (1939-1940); printed materials (1940); speeches (1940); miscellany; and clippings. Artifacts, maps, photographs, and printed materials have been transferred to the Museum, Library Map Collection, Photograph Archives, and Library respectively.

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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

Arranged by subgroup and series. Some material hosued in Archives Map Case. See inventory below for more information.

Location of Collection

11:8-3

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

Separated Materials

Printed material and maps have been separated to MHS Library. Photographs seperated to MHS Photo Archives. See inventory below for more information.

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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

  • Barclay Craighead

    • General Correspondence

      • Description: Personal (re Iron Mountain Mining Company, etc.)
        Dates: 1926-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1-2
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Personal (re application for position as commissioner of the Montana Department of Agriculture, etc.; correspondents include Burton K. Wheeler)
        Dates: 1928-1929
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3-4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Personal (includes Harry H. Parsons, Missoula, re Great Depression, etc.)
        Dates: 1930
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Personal (includes scholastic grades, 1927, 1929)
        Dates: 1931
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Personal (includes letter re reorganization of Montana counties, with maps)
        Dates: 1932
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Personal (re election, etc.; also includes correspondence with Miles Romney re Federal Housing Administration)
        Dates: 1934
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Barclay Craighead - State Director personal letters" (re Federal Housing Administration, etc.)
        Dates: 1934 December- 1935 May
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Barclay Craighead - State Director personal letters" (includes drafts of circular letters for James E. Murray re Montana agriculture)
        Dates: 1935 May-October
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Barclay Craighead - State Director personal letters" (re Eben F. Comins' portrait of Thomas J. Walsh; and P.B. Moss' proposal for a "Mutual Deposit Banking System")
        Dates: 1935 November-1936 March
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Personal file" (re Roy Humbert, Daniels County, smuggled cattle case, etc.; also includes James E. Murray correspondence and speeches, "The Presidency and Recovery" and "A Plea for Cooperation in Lieu of Destructive Criticis"; and letter to Roy E. Ayers re Montana politics)
        Dates: 1936 March-June
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Personal file" (re election, Federal Resettlement Administration, butte cartoonist John Powers, and Chevallier Livestock Company [Canyon Creek]; correspondents include James E. Murray and James F. O'Connor; also includes text of Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech at Fort Peck Dam)
        Dates: 1936 July-September
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Personal file" (re election, E.L. Livestock Company, religion and politics in Kalispell; also includes open letter from B.R. Albin re Gov. W. Elmer Holt and the Independent Merchants' Legislative Association; correspondents include James E. Murray, C.K. Dickey, and Joe Bosone)
        Dates: 1936 October-November
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Personal file" (re proposed Public Works Administration chemistry-pharmacy building project at Montana State University, radio, etc.; also includes correspondence and cartoon by John Powers)
        Dates: 1936 November-1937 January
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Personal letters" (re radio, etc.; also includes news release re Ed Craney-supported copyright bill)
        Dates: 1937 February-May
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Barclay Craighead - personal" (re People's forum of the Air, Non Partisan Dinner, etc.)
        Dates: 1937 June-July
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Personal" (re radio, unemployment compensation, etc.)
        Dates: 1937August-December
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Personal file - Barclay Craighead" (re Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission, radio, etc.; also includes "Comparative Annual Income and Expenditures, 1934-1937," materials re Roberts-MacNab Company and Gallatin Radio Forum applications for construction permits; etc.)
        Dates: 1938 January-April
        Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Personal file - Barclay Craighead" (re radio, election, etc.; also includes letters to Catholics re allegations against Burton K. Wheeler concerning anti-Catholicism; and radio speech re Jerry O'Connell alliance with Montana Communists)
        Dates: 1938 April-July
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Personal file for Barclay Craighead" (re American Federation of Labor and Montana Council for Progressive Political Action, radio, elections, etc.; also includes "The Passing of Jerry [O'Connell]" by John Nelson; a list of railroad labor organizations endorsing Dr. J. Thorkelson and repudiating Jerry O'Connell; and "Certain Phases of the Case of Dr. Paul C. Phillips, considered by the Service Committee of the State University of Montana in July and August 1938," by N.J. Lennes)
        Dates: 1938 August-December
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Ray A. Adams - Personal"
        Dates: 1943-1948
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "A" (re radio, etc.)
        Dates: 1940-1948
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "B" (re radio, and proposed sale to military of buffalo coats, etc.; also includes "Statement Discussed at Caucus of Democratic House and Senate Members at Helena, Montana, March 2, 1943" re actions of Burton K. Wheeler in support of Wellington Rankin against James E. Murray)
        Dates: 1939-1943
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "B" (re radio, elections, lodgepole pine, etc.; also includes letter from Joe Bosone re Sam Ford)
        Dates: 1944-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "Barclay Craighead Procurement Office War Department, Salt Lake City Army, 1943" (re application for military position)
        Dates: 1943
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Edwin Boone Craighead, Jr.
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 8
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "C" (re radio, Burton K. Wheeler candidacy for President, elections, etc.)
        Dates: 1939-1940
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 9-10
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "C" (re radio, elections, Edwin Boone Craighead, Jr.'s death, etc.)
        Dates: 1941-1945
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 11
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "C" (re radio, elections, Edwin Boone Craighead, Jr.'s death, etc.; also includes letter from Charles Russell Memorial Committee re commission of Charlie Beil for bronze)
        Dates: 1946-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "D" (includes "Wheeler, Fighting Liberal," by Barclay Craighead)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "E" (correspondents include Zales Ecton)
        Dates: 1940-1948
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "F" (re elections, America First Committee in Billings, development of Montana's rivers, and social security legislation, etc.)
        Dates: 1939-1948
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "General Electric - Richland (re coal bids, etc.)" (re Montana Coal and Iron Company)
        Dates: 1947-1948
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "G" (re radio, etc.)
        Dates: 1939-1948
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "H" (re Hatch Act, elections, etc.; also includes press release re Burton K. Wheeler and Columbia Basin Project and suggested news story re Wheeler)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6-7
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "I-J" (re radio, etc.)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "KPFA" (re Helena radio station)
        Dates: 1945-1946
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "K" (re radio, etc.; also includes "Wheeler--Liberal or Conservative?" by bob Davee; correspondents include Edward Keating)
        Dates: 1939-1947
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "L" (re elections, Bearmouth hot springs, radio, etc.; also includes speech by Arthur F. Lamey re re-election of Gov. Ayers; correspondents include N.J. Lennes)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "M" (re elections, radio, etc.; correspondents include James E. Murray)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1-2
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "M" (re elections, etc.; correspondents include James E. Murray)
        Dates: 1939-1942
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "N" (re elections,; also includes speech re Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "O" (includes open letter from Joe bosone to membership of United Mine Workers of America re Jerry O'Connell and Burton K. Wheeler)
        Dates: 1939-1945
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "P"
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "R" (re Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Library Committee, radio)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "S" (re Great Falls News, Wheeler for President Club, Hill 57, Montana hydroelectric programs, Burton K. Wheeler, America First Committee; correspondents include Charles L. Stevens, O.H.P. Shelley)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7-9
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "T" (re Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission, etc.)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 10
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "U" (re United Service to China, Inc.; correspondents include Mearl L. Fagg)
        Dates: 1939-1947
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 11
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "V"
        Dates: 1939-1943
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 12
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re Buffalo Rapids Project, Big Horn Dam, silver question, proposed Missoula Federal Building, elections, Judge George Bourquin, etc.; also includes letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt to B.K. Wheeler re Revenue Act of 1932 and Wheeler-Howard Bill)
        Dates: 1932- 1934 April
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 13
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re Montana Power Company, Robert Yellowtail and Crow Indians, Medicine Lake and Bowdoin Lake projects, Chevallier Livestock Company [Canyon Creek], Judge George Bourquin, proposed Missoula Federal Building, Montana Home Owners' Loan Corporation, etc.)
        Dates: 1934 May-September
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 14
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re Montana Federal Housing Authority, Gov. Frank Cooney, Montana labor unions, etc.)
        Dates: 1935
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re elections, Gov. W. Elmer Holt, Roy Ayers, Chevallier Livestock Company [Canyon Creek], radio, etc.)
        Dates: 1936
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 2
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re Montana State University chemistry-pharmacy building project, U.S. Supreme Court, radio, Montana labor unions, Jerry O'Connell, Gov. Roy Ayers, etc.)
        Dates: 1937
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 3
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re Jerry O'Connell, unemployment compensation, etc.; also includes statement by B.K. Wheeler re railroads)
        Dates: 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re Jerry O'Connell, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Gov. Roy Ayers, etc.; also includes strategy for "Wheeler for President" movement in Washington and Oregon)
        Dates: 1939
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 5-6
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re James E. Murray, Wheeler for President clubs, Harrison J. Freebourn, elections, Jerry O'Connell, radio, etc.; also includes list of Montana contributors to Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, B.K. Wheeler speech on "Conscription and National Defense")
        Dates: 1940
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 7-8
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re Jews, Lend Lease program, Charles Stevens' accusation of B.K. Wheeler's alleged pro-Nazi sentiments, James E. Murray, World War II, etc.)
        Dates: 1941- 1942 June
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re elections, Wellington Rankin, Gov. Sam Ford, etc.)
        Dates: 1942 July- 1945
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 2-3
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re elections, Mike Mansfield, smelter unions, Leif Erickson, Montana mining industry, Zales Ecton, etc.)
        Dates: 1946
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler's Office (re elections, James E. Murray, Z Bar N Network [radio], John Bonner, etc.)
        Dates: 1947-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler (re radio)
        Dates: 1941-1946
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 6
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: "W"
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 7
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence
      • Description: Miscellaneous
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 8
        Location: Barclay Craighead / General Correspondence

    • Miscellaneous Correspondence

    • Financial Records

    • Maps

      • Description: List of maps transferred to Library Map Collection
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 12
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Maps

    • Photographs

      • Description: List of photographs transferred to Photo Archives
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 13
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Photographs
      • Description: List of printed materials transferred to Library
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 14
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Photographs

    • Speeches

      • Description: Charter Day speech, Missoula
        Dates: 1938 February
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 15
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Speeches
      • Description: Miscellaneous (includes "Unemployment Compensation"; "The Two Dollar Plan" re tariffs; and "Speaking of Liberty" re corporations; also untitled speeches re Liberty League, social security legislation in Montana, development of Montana's resources, Leif Erickson, relationship of unemployment compensation and employment services divisions, administrative cooperation among federal, state, and local governments, agricultural matters, and Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission contribution report)
        Dates: 1939, 1946, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 16
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Speeches

    • Subject Files

      • Description: "Bourquin" (includes materials compiled in 1934 re Judge George M. Bourquin's career and personal life, 1906-1934, including "The Judicial Career of the Hon. George M. Bourquin," by D.A. Batchoff; "Sentences Imposed by Judge Bourquin in Cases involving Violations of Harrison Acts" re narcotics; court papers re Mary M. Bourquin v. George M. Bourquin; lists of cases heard by Bourquin, James E. Murray speech re Bourqin and Scott leavitt; etc.)
        Dates: 1934
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: "E.B. Craighead - magnesite, etc." (re Ely, Nevada, magnesite property)
        Dates: 1942, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 2
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Gov. Sam C. Ford election (includes radio spots, speeches, and analysis of Gallup poll)
        Dates: 1944
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 3
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: "Mercer Mining Claims" (re John F. Mercer's claims including in Poorman's Creek, Gould-Stemple Mining District; also includes Ida Mine, Inc. and Drumlummon Extension Mine stock certificates)
        Dates: 1933-1943
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: "Mining Claims" (re claims in Lewis and Clark and Stemple [unorganized] mining districts)
        Dates: 1901-1947
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission (includes "Digest of Official Interpretations approved and adopted..."; "Regulation for the Administration of the Montana Unemployment Compensation Law"; official interpretations, #1-20; "Questions and Answers Bearing upon the Basic Principles, Scope, Methods, and Economic Benefits of the Montana Unemployment Compensation Law"; The Wagner-Murray Bill"; circular letters; "Employment News Letter"; statement of expenditures for equipment; Social Security Board review of budget; and blank forms)
        Dates: 1937, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 6
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission (includes "stationery; notes; list of reports, news releases, and publications; memo re personnel transferred from U.S. Employment Service; "Maximum Lumber Production in Montana Can be Attained by Full Utilization of Sawmill Capacity and the Available Labor Supply"; biographical sketches of Commission employees; "Unemployment Compensation in Montana"; radio transcript of Bailey Stortz with Barclay Craighead, Louis G. DeNayer, and Carl Anderson; etc.)
        Dates: 1943-1948, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 7
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Radio (re application and amended application for Federal Communications Commission license)
        Dates: 1941
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 8-10
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Radio (re application and amended application for Federal Communications Commission license; includes correspondence with Jeannette Rankin)
        Dates: 1941
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1-2
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Radio (re purchase of equipment for Butte radio station)
        Dates: 1941
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 3
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Radio (re People's Forum of the Air; KPFA radio station, Helena; also includes correspondence of E.B. Craney's refusal to carry Walter Winchell's commentary)
        Dates: 1941-1945
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Radio (re application of Hennessy Broadcasting Company for Federal Communications Commission license; includes articles of incorporation, depositions of M.J. Thomas, L.E. Vidal, A.T. Hibbard, Rev. Ralph Johnson, Jerry O'Connell, J. Burke Clements, Miles Romney, Sylvester Graham, John J. Tomcheck, Paul A. Dickover, H.E. Hart, James B. Graham, Judge George W. Padbury, Jr, Will Whalen, Edmond G. Toomey, Howard A. Johnson, G.A. Norris, E.C. Burris, Lewis Penwell, and Payne Templeton; also includes articles of incorporation for People's Forum of the Air and annual reports of Hennessy Mercantile Company and Anaconda Copper Mining Company)
        Dates: 1941
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 5
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Radio (re radio stations in Butte, Helena, and Great Falls, and a proposed station in Havre, etc.; includes correspondence with E.B. Craney, K.O. MacPherson, J. Russell Larcombe, Pat Goodover, A.T. Hibbard, et al.; also includes balance sheets and stock certificates of Great Falls Broadcasting Company)
        Dates: 1946-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 6-7
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files
      • Description: Miscellaneous (includes correspondence re application for radio construction permit, Butte; death of E.B. Craighead, Jr.)
        Dates: 1939-1949
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 8
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Subject Files

    • Writings

      • Description: "America Tomorrow: Industrial Millennium or Mirage?" and "Wheat and the Federal Farm Board" (includes note from W.S. McCormick)
        Dates: 1931, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 9
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Writings
      • Description: Miscellaneous (re Burton K. Wheeler, Joseph M. Dixon, Thomas J. Walsh, Micky McGlynn, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Myers, Barclay Craighead, Nonpartisan League, Harry H. Parsons, hydroelectric power, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, communism, Industrial Workers of the World [IWW], Montana politics and elections, World War I, etc.; also includes "Career Statement" re application with Department of Agriculture)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 10
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Writings
      • Description: "The Industrial Depression"
        Dates: 1931 June
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 11
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Writings

    • Miscellany

      • Description: Application for position as executive officer, Federal Works and Security Agency (includes cover letter)
        Dates: 1941 July
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 12
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Blueprints ("Residence for Mr. and Mrs. Barclay Craighead, Helena, Montana, Sigvald L. Berg, licensed architect" [Archives Map Case see folder MC 182-194]
        Dates: 1936 March
        Container: Oversize Folder MC 182-194
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Certificate of appointment as chairman of Montana Unemployment Compensation Commission [Archives Map Case see folder MC 182-194]
        Dates: 1937 May
        Container: Oversize Folder MC 182-194
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Certificate of appointment as notary public [Archives Map Case see folder MC 182-194]
        Dates: 1937 February
        Container: Oversize Folder MC 182-194
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Christmas card lists
        Dates: 1934, 1936
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Edwin Boone Craighead Jr. ephemera
        Dates: 1945-1946, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 2
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Election wager forms
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 3
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: "Highlights of Local Office Labor Development Reports in Montana"; "Population and Employment [in Montana] 1940 and 1943"; "Determination of Seasonal Employment"
        Dates: 1943, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 4
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: "Information for the Use of Office Staffs of Senators Entering Their First Terms of Service in the 73rd Congress"
        Dates: 1933
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 5
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: KGIR, Inc. contract for political broadcasting [blank]
        Dates: 1934
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 6
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: List of artifacts transferred to the Museum
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 7
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: List of federal projects in Montana [arranged by county; provides status of projects]
        Dates: 1934
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 8
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Montana Federal Housing Administration reports of operation, 1935-1937
        Dates: 1937
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 9
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Montana State Employment Service expenses, 1937-1939; breakdown of federal and state contributions, 1938
        Dates: 1938-1939
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 10
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Notes re Big Horn Dam
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 11
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Plan to consolidate Montana counties
        Dates: 1934
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 12
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Poetry ("The Sound Dollar"; "The New Deal")
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 13
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: St. Lawrence Seaway materials
        Dates: 1931-1934
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 14
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler speeches [annotated] (re silver question, democracy, the Roosevelt Administration, Thomas J. Walsh, and Thomas Jefferson)
        Dates: 1933, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 15
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler speeches (includes "Keep Out of War"; "Youth: Jobs and War"; "1940 Liberalism"; "Government Control of Business"; "The National Farm Problem"; "America Must Remain at Peace"; and untitled speeches re neutrality, universal military conscription [draft], Farmers Union, business and democracy, Democratic Party and problems of America, aid to Finland, interrelationship between neutrality and improvement of American economy, hopes and plans of Roosevelt Administration)
        Dates: 1939-1940, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 16
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler speeches (includes "War or Peace"; "Unity for Peace"; untitled speech re Henry L. Stimson's charge of "near treason" against Wheeler; "Remonetization of Silver")
        Dates: 1932-1933, 1940-1941
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 17
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler stationery (U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 18
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Burton K. Wheeler writings ("Processing Racket Farm Board Follies")
        Dates: 1934
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 19
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany
      • Description: Wheeler-Howard Bill materials (re federal Indian policy)
        Dates: 1934
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 20
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Miscellany

    • Clippings

      • Description: Re Barclay Craighead
        Dates: circa 1940-1949, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 21
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Clippings
      • Description: Re radio blackout of Walter Winchell broadcast
        Dates: 1941 July
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 22
        Location: Barclay Craighead / Clippings

  • Montana Democratic State Central Committee

  • Wheeler for President Club of Montana

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Bimetallism
  • Cartoonists
  • Elections--Montana
  • Insurance, Unemployment--Montana
  • Patronage, Political--Montana
  • Radio broadcasting--Montana
  • Silver question--Montana

Personal Names

  • Craighead, Barclay, 1895-1978 (creator)

Geographical Names

  • Bearmouth Hot Springs (Mont.)
  • Butte (Mont.)--Commerce
  • Helena (Mont.)--Commerce
  • Superior (Mont.)

Finding aid prepared by MHS staff
2004

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