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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the Montana City Directory Collection 1890-1982<date calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="1890/1982" type="inclusive"/></titleproper>
        <titleproper type="filing" altrender="nodisplay">Montana City Directory Collection</titleproper>
        <author encodinganalog="creator">Kim Allen Scott, 2009. Updated by Heather Mulliner, 2022.</author>
        <sponsor encodinganalog="contributor">Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities</sponsor>
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        <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Montana State University Library, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscript Collections</publisher>
        <date encodinganalog="date" calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="2022">2022</date>
        <address>
          <addressline>P.O. Box 173320, Centennial Mall</addressline>
          <addressline>Montana State University</addressline>
          <addressline>Bozeman, MT 59717</addressline>
        </address>
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      <creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2022-09-02</date>.</creation>
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        <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="latn" encodinganalog="language">Finding aid written in English</language>
      </langusage>
      <descrules>Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition.</descrules>
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      <repository>
        <corpname encodinganalog="852$a">Montana State University Library, Archives and Special Collections, Manuscript Collections</corpname>
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      <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Montana City Directory Collection</unittitle>
      <unitid countrycode="US" repositorycode="mtbc" encodinganalog="099">2308</unitid>
      <physdesc>
        <extent encodinganalog="300$a">269 volumes</extent>
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      <unitdate calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="1890/1982" type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f">1890-1982</unitdate>
      <abstract encodinganalog="5203_">The Montana City Directory Collection consists of directories for various Montana cities. Cities represented in the collection are Anaconda, Billings, Butte, Columbia Falls, Dillon, Glasgow, Glendive, Great Falls, Hamilton, Hardin, Havre, Helena, Kalispell, Lewiston, Livingston, Miles City, Missoula, Sydney, and Whitefish. The collection is incomplete and not all years are available for each city listed.</abstract>
      <langmaterial>Collection materials are in English</langmaterial>
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      <p>This collection is open for research.</p>
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    <acqinfo encodinganalog="541">
      <p>Directories for selected Montana cities, primarily published by the R. L. Polk company, were collected by the Montana State University Library from a variety of sources over the span of several decades.</p>
    </acqinfo>
    <processinfo>
      <p>This collection was processed 2009 April 9</p>
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      <p>Cities represented in the collection are Anaconda, Billings, Butte, Columbia Falls, Dillon, Glasgow, Glendive, Great Falls, Hamilton, Hardin, Havre, Helena, Kalispell, Lewiston, Livingston, Miles City, Missoula, Sydney, and Whitefish. The collection is incomplete and not all years are available for each city listed. Researchers are advised that directories for the city of Bozeman have been classified separately under F739.B6 A18.</p>
      <p> The directories have been arranged in alphabetical order by town name, and thereafter chronologically.</p>
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        <geogname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="651">Butte (Mont.)-Directories</geogname>
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        <geogname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="651">Glasgow (Mont.)-Directories</geogname>
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        <geogname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="651">Hamilton (Mont.)-Directories</geogname>
        <geogname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="651">Hardin (Mont.)-Directories</geogname>
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        <geogname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="651">Kalispell (Mont.)-Directories</geogname>
        <geogname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="651">Lewiston (Mont.)-Directories</geogname>
        <geogname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="651">Livingston (Mont.)-Directories</geogname>
        <geogname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="651">Miles City (Mont.)-Directories</geogname>
        <geogname source="lcnaf" encodinganalog="651">Missoula (Mont.)--Directories</geogname>
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        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690">Media and Communication</subject>
        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690">Montana</subject>
        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690">Helena</subject>
        <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690">Missoula</subject>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Anaconda</unittitle>
          <unitdate normal="1947/1947">1947</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1962/1962">1962</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1964/1965" type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f">1964-1965</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1967/1967">1967</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1969/1970" type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f">1969-1970</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1972/1978" type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f">1972-1978</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1980/1980">1980</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1984/1984">1984</unitdate>
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          <unitdate normal="1956/1956">1956</unitdate>
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          <unitdate normal="1985/1985">1985</unitdate>
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          <unitdate normal="1925/1925">1925</unitdate>
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          <unitdate normal="1964/1964">1964</unitdate>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Glendive</unittitle>
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          <unitdate normal="1964/1965" type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f">1964-1965</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1972/1972">1972</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1974/1974">1974</unitdate>
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          <unitdate normal="1965/1965">1965</unitdate>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Havre</unittitle>
          <unitdate normal="1960/1960">1960</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1962/1962">1962</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1964/1964">1964</unitdate>
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          <unitdate normal="1971/1971">1971</unitdate>
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          <unitdate normal="1982/1982">1982</unitdate>
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          <unitdate>1920</unitdate>
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          <unitdate normal="1927/1927">1927</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1929/1929">1929</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1931/1931">1931</unitdate>
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          <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Kalispell-Whitefish-Columbia Falls</unittitle>
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          <unitdate normal="1954/1954">1954</unitdate>
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          <unitdate normal="1960/1960">1960</unitdate>
          <unitdate normal="1962/1963" type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f">1962-1963</unitdate>
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