Archives West Finding Aid

The contents of the collection have been calendared in this inventory. Aside from a handwritten biographical sketch of his father and the family business by George W. Flanders, Jr., the papers includes: a typewritten transcription of the sketch by Merrill G. Burlingame; additional reminiscences by Hurford E. Stone and Libbus DeFrate; printed memorabilia including a Spanish-American War program and Flanders's 1866 steamboat ticket; photographs of the Flanders family, friends, and businesses; a wallet and hat cord owned by George W. Flanders, Jr. The pictures have been grouped by subject and format. Loose photographs of the Flanders family, their Bozeman home, and the Hyalite Canyon sawmill operations have been given sequential numbers from 1-61. A single asterisk after the picture title indicates a negative is available; two asterisks indicate both a negative and copy print are available. Photographs numbered 51-61 are mounted in George W. Flanders, Jr. picture book probably made by his mother. It show his home in town, views of the mill, children playing in Hyalite Creek, a log boom coming down Middle Creek, the Flanders family about 1920. Following the numbered photographs is a family album including pictures of: children, schools, church, interior view of the Flanders home and friends, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tomlinson, grandparents John and Mary Parks, Dr. Whitefoot and his nurse Miss Malloy, and Mrs. John Work. Photographers include A. Schlechten, Bozeman, and Tower and Lowry, Helena.