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Montana Chamber of Commerce records, 1931-1967

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Montana Chamber of Commerce
Title
Montana Chamber of Commerce records
Dates
1931-1967 (inclusive)
Quantity
7.5 linear feet
Collection Number
MC 199 (collection)
Summary
The Montana Chamber of Commerce was founded as Montanans, Inc. in 1931 to promote business and professional interests and industrial development. The name was changed in 1946. Records (1931-1967) include general correspondence, financial records, legal documents, minutes, news releases, organizational records, printed materials, reports, speeches, subject files, and miscellany.
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 is 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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Historical Note

The Montana Chamber of Commerce, a private non-profit membership organization that advocates for the state's business and professional interests, was established as Montanans, Inc. on January 30, 1931, in Helena. The organization adopted its present name in July 1946. The Chamber's committees and staff promote tourism, foreign trade (especially with Canada), agricultural and industrial development, and lobby the state and federal legislatures for measures favorable to its constituency, such as lower property taxes and a sales tax.

Staff members included Gerald J. Skibbins who held the position of manager of the Montana Chamber of Commerce in the 1950s. Patrick E. Lee, a former Carroll College instructor, was the Chamber's publicity director from 1957 until 1959. William H. Browning began serving as executive vice president of the Montana Chamber of Commerce in 1956. He joined the Chamber staff as director of travel and publicity, and was promoted to manager in 1951. Browning also served concurrently as the first secretary of the Montana Citizens Freight Rate Association from 1951 to 1952. He was named national director of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and promoted Missoula as the location for that organization's national convention in 1953.

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Content Description

The records of the Montana Chamber of Commerce consist of general correspondence (195l-1967, undated) relating to the organization's day-to-day activity; financial records (1945-1966, undated); legal documents (1949), minutes (1943-1944, 1950-1966); news releases (1958, undated); organizational records (1957), including the articles of incorporation of Montanans, Inc.; printed materials (1955); reports (1945-1960); speeches (1958, undated); subject files (1944-1967); miscellany (1942-1967), including membership lists (1959-1967, undated), and "Montana Directory Questionnaires" (1954) used to compile the 1955-1956 edition of the Industrial Survey and Directory of Manufacturers of Montana, which provide information not used in the published version of the directory; and clippings.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

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 series. Some material housed in Archives Map Case. See inventory below for more information.

Location of Collection

12:2-1

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

Separated Materials

Artifacts, maps, photographs, and printed materials have been transferred to the Museum, Library Map Collection, Photograph Archives, and Library respectively.

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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

  • General Correspondence

    • Description: Art J. Baker (re sales of memberships)
      Dates: 1956-1957
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Noel Carrico (includes "Tour of Pine, Cabin Creek, and Gas City Oil Fields")
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Inquiries
      Dates: 1959-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Charles G. McGlave
      Dates: 1960-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Harry Preston
      Dates: 1960-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: C.M. "Neil" Wall
      Dates: 1951-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Lee Wulf (re television movie on Montana fishing)
      Dates: 1964-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Miscellaneous (re Polson tourist accommodations; Montana State Planning Board; Montana Power Company gas import case; etc.; also includes copies of Montana Chamber of Commerce circulars)
      Dates: 1951-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Miscellaneous (re Montana Taxpayers' Association survey of state's school needs; Senator Lee Metcalf's support of improvement and development of forest recreation; H.B. 71 re Nurses Employment Practices; Armed Forces Day; etc.)
      Dates: 1957 January -April
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Miscellaneous (re U.S. Customs stations at Del Bonita, Turner, Opheim, and Morgan; Montana Day; income tax reduction; Lewis and Clark Highway; Fort Peck Yacht Club's Missouri River Cruise; etc.; also includes copies of Montana Chamber of Commerce circulars)
      Dates: 1957 May-December
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Miscellaneous (re Dude Ranchers Association opposition to access roads on National Forest lands; proposed Paradise Dam; freight transportation tax; Cooke City- Red Lodge highway; billboards; proposed Columbia River Development corporation bill; Clark Fork River and Thompson River fish rehabilitation programs; etc.; also includes resolutions of the Montana Conservation Council)
      Dates: 1958 January -May
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Miscellaneous (re unemployment compensation; Montana Day; etc.; also includes copies of Montana Chamber of Commerce circulars)
      Dates: 1958 June-1960 September
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Miscellaneous (re Montana Highway Users Conference; etc.; also includes Montana State AFL-CIO list of Montana right wing organizations)
      Dates: 1963-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Miscellaneous (re use of name "Big Sky Country" for other states; Montana Dismantlers Association and highway beautification; dams within the Bob Marshall Wilderness; Lincoln Back Country Protective Association and the "Lincoln Back Country-Scapegoat Mountain" area; etc.)
      Dates: 1965-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence

  • Financial Records

    • Description: Account ledger [OVERSIZE: See Archives Map Case]
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Oversize Folder 1
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Annual statements of operations and financial statistics (includes monthly financial reports, November-December 1950; proposed operational budget, 1950; statement of assets and liabilities, January 1950; "Supplemental Data Embracing Proposed Features of the 1952 Budget on Operational Expenditures"; and special convention issues, 1953-1955)
      Dates: 1950-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Audit reports (includes Montanans, Inc.; Montana Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Division; also includes financial statement, July 1947-April 1948)
      Dates: 1945-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6-7
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Bank account deposits
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Budget
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Checking account ledger register
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Comparative income reports (includes budget requirements for 1948)
      Dates: 1946-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Financial statements and statements of operational statistics (also includes audit report, 1959)
      Dates: 1956-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12-13
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Payroll
      Dates: 1950 November - 1951 December
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Proposed annual budgets
      Dates: 1960-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Schedules of operating expenses and balance sheets
      Dates: 1960-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
      Location: Financial Records

  • Legal Documents

    • Description: Certification of name change from Montanans, Inc. to Montana Chamber of Commerce
      Dates: 1948 August
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4
      Location: Legal Documents
    • Description: Lease with Helena Building and Realty Company for office
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
      Location: Legal Documents

  • Maps

    • Description: List of maps transferred to Library Map Collection
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
      Location: Maps

  • Minutes

    • Description: County Board of Directors meeting (includes lists of members of Boards of County Directors, 1954-1956)
      Dates: 1953 November
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Minutes (Montanans, Inc.)
      Dates: 1943-1944
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 8
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Minutes and related materials
      Dates: 1950, 1953-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 9-12
      Location: Minutes
    • Description: Trades and Services Division
      Dates: 1953 February
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
      Location: Minutes

  • Organization

    • Description: Montanans, Inc. articles of incorporation and bylaws
      Dates: 1931 November
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
      Location: Organization
    • Description: Bylaws
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 15
      Location: Organization

  • Press releases

    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1955, 1958, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16-17
      Location: Press releases

  • Photographs

    • Description: List of photographs transferred to Photograph Archives
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 18
      Location: Photographs
    • Description: List of printed material transferred to Library
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 19
      Location: Photographs
    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes promotional brochures)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 20
      Location: Photographs

  • Reports

    • Description: Aviation Committee report
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 21
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Budget Committee report
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 22
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Fort Peck: construction and operating expenses (includes "Air Engineering Development Center Site Questionnaire," by Gerald J. Skibbins)
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 23
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Future Goals for the Industrial Development Division," by Gerald J. Skibbins
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 24
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Highlights of the Proceedings Which Determined the Montana Industrial Mobilization Program," Industrial Mobilization Division
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 25
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Montana Chemical Industry Report," Montana Chemicals Industry Task Force
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Montana Forest Industries Report," Montana Forest Industries Task Force
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Montana Mining and Smelting Industries Report," Task Force on Mining and Smelting
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "The Montana Proposal for Locating the AEC [Atomic Energy Commission] Reactor Research Installation," by Gerald J. Skibbins
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Montana Research Facility Report," Montana Research Facility Task Force
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Montana's Metal-Working Industry Report," Metal Industries Task Force
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Oil and Synthetic Fuel," by Gerald J. Skibbins
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Montana Petroleum and Gas Report," Montana Petroleum and Gas Task Force
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "A Preliminary Inventory of Montana Mineral Resources," by Francis A. Thomson
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Report on policy and program
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Turkey Production," Industrial Development Division
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Wood Sugar Molasses Pilot Plant and Research Program," Montana Wood Molasses Advisory Committee
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "The Work of the Division," Industrial Development Division
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
      Location: Reports

  • Speeches

    • Description: Speech (re cooperative planning in recreational development)
      Dates: 1958 April
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 14
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Statement of William H. Browning before the Subcommittee on Flood control, Rivers and Harbors (re Columbia River Basin)
      Dates: 1958 December
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 15
      Location: Speeches

  • Subject Files

    • Description: Agriculture Committee
      Dates: 1950-1953, 1962-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 16-17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Alaska-Canada-Montana Relations Committee
      Dates: 1962-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 18
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Alaska Highway Paving Project
      Dates: 1957-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 19-20
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Alaska Highway Paving Project
      Dates: 1964-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1-3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Alaska Air Tour
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4-6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Alaska relations
      Dates: 1958=1959
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: All-Montana Canadian Tour [clippings]
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: American Chemet Corporation (includes material re Columbia Paint company; air pollution survey; etc.)
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Asbestos
      Dates: 1945-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Beef tariff
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Bricks (re Fromberg brick factory)
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Canadian relations (includes minutes of Alberton Section, Joint Trade Committee, May 2, 1957)
      Dates: 1953-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1-7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Canadian Relations Tour
      Dates: 1955-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 8-10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Canadian Tourists Project
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Canadian trade
      Dates: 1956-1957, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Changing World of Beef Tour
      Dates: 1961-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Christmas tree industry (includes Marketing Montana Christmas Trees, by Ben Huey and S. Blair Hutchinson, 1949; Management Policies for Christmas Tree Production, by C.A. Wellner and A.L. Roe, 1947; "Christmas Tree Production in Western Montana, 1939," and "The Christmas Tree Industry of Western Montana," by E.F. Ragpraeger, 1939
      Dates: 1939-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: College-Business Symposium
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Committee on Committees
      Dates: 1953-1954
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Community Development Conference, Great Falls
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Commercial Division (includes minutes)
      Dates: 1950-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Conference on Government
      Dates: 1958-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Conventions
      Dates: 1954, 1959, 1961, 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 7-10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Conventions
      Dates: 1964-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1-3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Council of State Chambers of Commerce
      Dates: 1965-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: County advisors
      Dates: 1961-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Defense contracts procurement
      Dates: 1951-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Eastern Montana Oil Meeting" (includes minutes; "A Field Survey of Oil Developments in the Dakotas and Montana as a Source of Business Expansion"; E.G. Booth; etc.)
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Elections of county directors
      Dates: 1954-1957
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Emergency Lead-Zinc Committee
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Federal budget
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Federal legislation (re recreational license for national forests and expansion of social security benefits)
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Federal-State Relations Committee (includes minutes)
      Dates: 1954-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Federal-State Relations Project
      Dates: 1953-1954
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Finance Committee (includes budget materials)
      Dates: 1962-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Flour Milling Division
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Forests (includes "Pulp Mill Sites in Eastern Montana in Relation to Effect on Water Quality of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers," by L.F. Warrick and H.A. Anderson)
      Dates: 1951-1954
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Freight rates
      Dates: 1948-1962, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Governors' Conference
      Dates: 1959-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Highway finance
      Dates: 1952-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Homesteading (includes "Some Points to Consider in Selecting and Buying a Farm," by R.B. Tootell)
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Industrial Committee (includes minutes)
      Dates: 1960-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Industrial Development Division (includes "The Development of Montana," by Gerald J. Skibbins; minutes and organizational chart of Rocky Mountain Wool Council; minutes of meeting with Montana Woolgrowers Association and Governor Sam Ford; progress report; minutes; "General Prospectus on Sidney, Montana, Establishment of Industry"; etc.)
      Dates: 1946-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 9-10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Industrial directory
      Dates: 1951-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Iron ore (includes "A Memorandum Report on a Deposit of Iron Ore, Montana-Idaho Area," by M.R. Cooper)
      Dates: 1946-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Knowles Dam
      Dates: 1962-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Legislation
      Dates: 1962-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Legislative reporting
      Dates: 1964-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Legislative services
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Lignite coal (includes "Coal Processing Possibilities in Montana," by Dick Setterstrom; "A Summary of Information on the Coal Resources Tributary to the Milwaukee Railroad West of Mobridge, S.D." by J.W. Melrose)
      Dates: 1951-1954, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Magazines: Field and Stream (includes "The Month the Madison [River] Goes Mad" re fishing)
      Dates: 1965-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Magazines: miscellaneous
      Dates: 1956-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Malmstrom Air Force Base
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Membership
      Dates: 1965-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Minimum wage
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Missouri [River] Basin Survey
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Centennial Train
      Dates: 1963-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Citizens' Freight Rate Association (includes minutes, financial statements, reports)
      Dates: 1952-1957, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 11-13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Day
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Industrial Laboratory (includes articles of incorporation, minutes, membership, bylaws; also includes oversize drawing of the Browning Road De-Icer, by John W. Browning, inventor)
      Dates: 1950-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Industrial Mobilization Program (includes "Interim Report of Task Force on Manpower and Technical Training..."; etc.)
      Dates: 1948-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Inventors Congress
      Dates: 1964-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Manufacturers' Association
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Power Company
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Montana Product Listings Survey" (re products marketable in Canada)
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana products (includes Montana Industrial Mobilization Program survey of canning industry; product brochures; "Production of Basic Chemicals in Montana"; "Montana Chrome, Inc., Red Lodge Operation Report #10" etc.)
      Dates: 1942-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana store hours
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Typographical Conference
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Movie: "Flathead Lake--a Vacation Utopia"
      Dates: 1962-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: National Boy Scout Jamboree
      Dates: 1964-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: National Forest use fees
      Dates: 1953-1954
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: National Park Committee (re proposed purchase of Yellowstone National Park concessions by State of Wyoming; includes "Secretary's Report Absaroka Conservation Committee")
      Dates: 1953-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Outdoor Editors Tour"
      Dates: 1951-1953
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 14-15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Outdoor Editors Tour"
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Outdoor Writers' Association of America, 1953 Missoula convention (includes dude ranch promotional materials, etc.)
      Dates: 1951-1953
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 2-4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Phosphates
      Dates: 1948-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Public Land Law Review Commission
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Railroad memberships (re Northern Pacific Railway and Union Pacific Railway)
      Dates: 1950-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Regional meetings ("Little Aircade")
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Reichle Dam
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Remington Farms
      Dates: 1962-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Rendering plant
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sales tax
      Dates: 1960-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Schools (re post-Labor Day opening and reorganization)
      Dates: 1965-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Social Security
      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Speakers Bureau (re anti-communist education program)
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sugar beet industry
      Dates: 1951-1953
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 1-2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Synthetic liquid fuel from coal
      Dates: 1948-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Tariffs on lead and zinc (includes correspondence with Anaconda Company)
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Taxation
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Taxation of cooperative businesses
      Dates: 1961-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Transportation Committee
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Travel Division
      Dates: 1952-1953
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Travel Promotion Committee
      Dates: 1962-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Travertine
      Dates: 1945-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Unemployment compensation
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Unemployment Compensation Committee
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Unemployment compensation legislation
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: U.S. Internal Revenue (re activities of the Montana Chamber of Commerce)
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Upper Midwest Research and Development Council (includes minutes of organizational meeting and proceedings)
      Dates: 1958-1959, 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Vermiculite (includes "Report on the Vermiculite Deposits Owned by S.H. Chamberlin and Geo. H. Garnet in Ravalli County, Montana")
      Dates: 1947-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Voting records (re Montana delegation to Congress)
      Dates: 1959-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Water pollution
      Dates: 1951-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 18
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Water resources (includes Montana Water Resources, by Gerald J. Skibbins)
      Dates: 1950, 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 19
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Women's Division
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Wood molasses
      Dates: 1948-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Drawings of "Wood to Molasses Pilot Plant, Bozeman, Montana" [OVERSIZE: See Archives Map Case folder MC 199-215]
      Dates: 1948-1950
      Container: Oversize Folder MC 199-215
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Wool cleaning plant
      Dates: 1948-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 3
      Location: Subject Files

  • Writings

    • Description: Magazine articles by Patrick E. Lee
      Dates: 1957-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "A Water Use Policy for Montana: a Statement by Montana Chamber of Commerce before the Task Force on Water Resources and Power, of the Commission on Organization the Executive Branch of Government" (includes Irrigation Pays, Montana Reclamation Association)
      Dates: 1952, 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 5
      Location: Writings

  • Miscellany

    • Description: Absaroka Conservation Committee secretary's report on Yellowstone Park meeting
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Annual Survey for 1959 Program of Work" [blank form]
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 7
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Billings Chamber of Commerce, "Community Capital Improvements Study"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 7a
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Committee membership lists
      Dates: 1959-1966, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 8
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Contracts to advertise county products and resources
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 9
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Convention programs
      Dates: 1950-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 10
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: A Directory of Chambers of Commerce of Montana
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 11
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Directories of local chambers of commerce
      Dates: 1953, 1966-1967, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 12
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Ground Effect Machine" (re invention by Leonard Grayson)
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 13
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Industrial surveys (Bozeman, 1951; Roundup, 1952; Three Forks, 1956)
      Dates: 1951-1952, 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 14
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: List of artifacts transferred to the Museum
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 15
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: List of Montana local chambers of commerce and service organizations
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 16
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: List of Montana trade associations
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 17
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: List of women's organization presidents
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 18
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership lists (new members, January-April; cancelled members, February-April; also includes list of contributors to Montana Citizen)
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 19
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership lists (arranged by county within each year)
      Dates: 1959-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 20-22
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership lists (arranged by county within each year)
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 1-3
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership lists (arranged by type of business)
      Dates: 1962-1966, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 4
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership lists (arranged by county within each year)
      Dates: 1963-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 5-6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership lists (arranged by county within each year)
      Dates: 1965, 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 1-2
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership program ballots
      Dates: 1954-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 3
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Membership survey (includes lists of members by classification)
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 4
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Miles City Chamber of Commerce annual report
      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 5
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Miles City request to U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board for additional regularly scheduled airline service
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Montana Council on Corrections material (includes list of members and speech "Citizen Leadership in the Correctional Field," by W.J. Billings)
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 7
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Montana Directory Questionnaire" (arranged by town: A-G)
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 8-12
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Montana Directory Questionnaire" (arranged by town: Great Falls-Z)
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 1-5
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Montana Directory Questionnaire" (newspapers and printing, arranged alphabetically by town)
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Montana Motor Hotel Association and Montana Hotel Association convention programs
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 1
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Montana's Production in Relation to War Needs"
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 2
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: The Montana Products Directory
      Dates: 1958 July
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 3
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Montana State Apprenticeship Council annual report
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 4
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Montana State Farm Bureau Federation statement to Missouri Basin Commission (re irrigation)
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 5
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Public Contractors Licensed with the Montana State Board of Education, Montana Contractors' Association, Inc. and the Montana Building Chapter, Inc.
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Payments in Lieu of Taxes by Valley Authorities," by A.L. Libra, Montana State University Law School
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 7
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Pulp Mills (includes "Report on Proposed Pulp Mill in Montana in Relation to Mill Effluent Effects on Quality of Waters of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers" [includes photos]; "Resource Factors Affecting the Feasibility of Pulp Mills in Eastern Montana," by S.B. Hutchinson and J.H. Wikstrom; "Report of Conversations Regarding Establishment of a Pulp Mill in Montana," by Lloyd Berg)
      Dates: 1952-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 8
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Speech by R.A. Dightman, Montana Climatological Section, U.S. Weather Bureau, Helena (re rain making)
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 9
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: State Advertising Advisory Committee minutes
      Dates: 1958 September
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 10
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "A Statement of Policy from the Montana Chamber of Commerce to President's Water Resources Policy Commission, Spokane Conference"
      Dates: 1950 June
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 11
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Statement on the Economy of Montana Prepared for the Montana Citizens' Freight Rate Association" (before the Interstate Commerce Commission, Transcontinental-Mountain-Pacific Class Rate Investigation), by Harold J. Hoflich and Maxine Johnson
      Dates: 1954 February
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 12
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Survey of new tourist attractions, aids, facilities (by municipality)
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 13
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Testimony of Perry F. Roys, Director, Montana State Planning Board" (before the Interstate Commerce Commission re Montana economy)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 14
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Travel Week" packet
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 15
      Location: Miscellany

  • Clippings

    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 18 / 16
      Location: Clippings

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Subject Terms

  • Agriculture, Cooperative--Montana
  • Boards of trade--Montana
  • Centennial celebrations, etc.--Montana
  • Christmas tree growing--Montana
  • Coal liquefaction--Montana
  • Commercial law--Montana
  • Conservation of natural resources--Montana
  • Dams--Montana
  • Dude ranches--Montana
  • Economic development--Montana
  • Energy development--Montana
  • Environmental policy--Montana
  • Federal government
  • Forest management--Montana
  • Freight and freightage--Rates--Montana
  • Guides for hunters, fishermen, etc.--Montana
  • Industrial laws and legislation--Montana
  • Industrial promotion--Montana
  • Iron mines and mining--Montana
  • Newspapers--Montana
  • Outdoor recreation--Montana
  • Petroleum industry and trade--Montana
  • Phosphate mines and mining--Montana
  • Pollution--Montana
  • Promotional societies
  • Public lands--Montana
  • Research, Industrial--Montana
  • Sales tax--Montana
  • Sugar beet industry--Montana
  • Taxation--Montana
  • Tourist trade--Montana
  • Transportation and state--Montana
  • Travertine--Montana
  • Trucking--Montana
  • Water--Pollution--Montana
  • Water-supply--Montana
  • Wildlife conservation--Law and legislation--Montana
  • Wood-pulp industry--Montana
  • Wool industry--Montana

Corporate Names

  • Montana Chamber of Commerce (creator)

Geographical Names

  • Alaska Highway
  • Knowles Dam (Mont.)
  • Reichle Dam (Mont.)

Finding aid prepared by Bill Summers, 1989
2006

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