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Virginia Vincent Papers, 1931-2011

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Vincent, Virginia, 1931-2020
Title
Virginia Vincent Papers
Dates
1931-2011 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.1 linear feet
Collection Number
Mss 971
Summary
The Virginia Vincent Papers contain flora and fauna observations around multiple locations in western Montana. Included are nesting note cards, general bird observations and field notes, as well as journals of Vincent’s time at the Ninemile Ranger District fire tower on Stark Mountain near Alberton, Montana. Her observations and information gathering spans from the 1970s to 2010.
Repository
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
32 Campus Dr. #9936
59812-9936
Missoula, MT
Telephone: 406-243-2053
library.archives@umontana.edu
Access Restrictions

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana-Missoula.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Virginia Vincent was born in Evanston, Illinois on September 25th, 1930 and later moved to Missoula, Montana to study natural history at the University of Montana in 1956. Since 1970 Vincent worked almost every summer season as a fire lookout at the Ninemile Ranger District on Stark Mountain near Lolo National Forest and Alberton, Montana. Throughout her time there as well as living in Missoula, Montana she kept records and observed hundreds of different species of flora and fauna. She particularly kept close observations of local bird populations within western Montana. Vincent wrote extensive diaries of her daily life at Stark Mountain. She also participated in multiple local outdoors and birding communities and worked with the University of Montana Herbarium into the early 2000’s. Virginia Vincent passed away in 2020 in Missoula, Montana.

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Content Description

This collection is arranged into four series that primarily contain notes, journals and field journals, as well as diaries of Virginia Vincent’s time on the Stark Mountain Ninemile Ranger District fire watch tower. The majority of the collection is raw collected data and observations of western Montana flora and fauna created by Vincent from the 1950s to the 2010s.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. Non-exclusive intellectual property rights are held by the University of Montana.

Preferred Citation

Virginia Vincent Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Series I: Journals and Diaries, 1970-2010, 0.5 linear foot

Series II: Observations, 1956-2011, 2.25 linear feet

Series III: Personal, 1931-2011, 0.25 linear feet

Series IV: Artifact, undated, 0.1 linear feet

Custodial History

The material in this collection was held by a friend following Vincent's death.

Acquisition Information

The Virginia Vincent collection was donated to Archives and Special Collections by her sister, Roberta Shupe, in 2021.

Processing Note

The collection processor foldered materials and organized the the raw data chronologically with each region that each material was respectively recorded in. There are some titles such as “Other Than” which are miscellaneous areas from Western Montana where Vincent recorded bird and other observations. "Other Than" was a categorization that Vincent used herself for field journals and other items that were miscellaneous or that didn't hold much organization.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Series I: Journals and Diaries, 1970-2010

    0.5 linear foot
  • Series II: Observations, 1956-2011

    2.25 linear feet

    Within this series, folders with 'observations' contain raw data gathered and created by Vincent.

    Most material within each folder is chronologically assembled.

    • Description: Bird Observations Montana (folder 1 of 2)

      Flathead Valley, Browning Lake, and other regions of western Montana

      Dates: 1956-1970
      Container: Box/Folder 1/6
    • Description: Bird Observations Montana Map (folder 2 of 2)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1/7
    • Description: Stark Mountain Bird Observations

      Bird Observations at Stark mountain Ninemile Ranger District Lolo national forest Montana

      Dates: 1970-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 1/8
    • Description: Stark Mountain Bird Observations
      Dates: 1990-2010
      Container: Box/Folder 2/1
    • Description: Bird and Mammal Records Ninemile Ranger District and Stark Mountain

      Observations, Correspondence Single page, Russ Peterson

      Dates: 1970-1978
      Container: Box/Folder 2/2
    • Description: Bird and Mammal Records Ninemile Ranger District and Stark Mountain MAP

      Quadrangle Map cutout

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/3
    • Description: Bird Observations USA Western, Pacific, and Australian

      Utah, Oregon, California, Hawaii, Tahiti, Australia, and New Zealand Birds

      Dates: 1956-1977
      Container: Box/Folder 2/4
    • Description: Bird Observations USA Western, Pacific, and Australian Map

      Map cutout of Montana Quadrangle Map

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/5
    • Description: Bird Observations Eastern USA (folder 1 of 2)

      Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia, Florida, Mexico Beach

      Dates: 1968-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2/6
    • Description: Bird Observations Eastern USA Map (folder 1 of 2)

      Map of Montana, South of Missoula Quadrangle Map

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/7
    • Description: Bird Observations 907 Kern St. Missoula Montana
      Dates: 1980-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 2/8
    • Description: Bird Observations Misc. Metcalf Refuge, Lolo National Forest, 907 Kern Street (Missoula), Stark Mountain. (folder 1 of 3)

      Individual pocket journals and pamphlet that contain multiple regions with bird Observations in Montana

      Dates: 1980-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 2/9
    • Description: Bird Observations Misc. Metcalf Refuge, Lolo National Forest, 907 Kern Street (Missoula), Stark Mountain. (folder 2 of 3)
      Dates: 1976-1979
      Container: Box/Folder 2/10
    • Description: Bird Observations Misc. Map (folder 3 of 3)

      Quadrangle Map cutout

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/11
    • Description: Bird Observations Montana Reserve St. Missoula, Metcalf Refuge (folder 1 of 2)

      With Dean Moore, Pocket Field Checklists, Mentions of Stark Mountain but there is no Observations from Stark Mountain

      Dates: 1970-1980
      Container: Box/Folder 2/12
    • Description: Bird Observations Montana Map (folder 2 of 2)

      Quadrangle Map cutout of West Glacier

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/13
    • Description: Bird Observations 1981 Redhill Oregon

      Written Observations in Redhill Oregon and a publication on the Bristled Thighed Curlew

      Dates: 1981-2002
      Container: Box/Folder 2/14
    • Description: Bitterroot Valley Quadrangle Map Cutout
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2/15
    • Description: 1985 UM Calendar with Observations
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box/Folder 2/16
    • Description: Field Notes of Western Bird Observations,

      Note cards organized into Index's and species by Virginia Vincent

      Dates: 1957-2008
      Container: Box/Folder 2/17
    • Description: Field Notes of Montana Birds

      Missoula, Lolo, and Idaho

      Dates: 1956-1969
      Container: Box/Folder 2/18
    • Description: Bird Observations Field Journal, 907 Kern St. Missoula
      Dates: 1993-1997
      Container: Box/Folder 3/1
    • Description: Bird Observations Field Journal, 907 Kern St. Missoula

      A Journal and loose typed paper of all the birds observation by Virginia Vincent

      Dates: 1998-2009
      Container: Box/Folder 3/2
    • Description: Bird Observations Notes, 907 Kern St. Missoula,
      Dates: 2001-2005
      Container: Box/Folder 3/3
    • Description: Bird Observations Notes, 907 Kern St. Missoula

      A single field journal

      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box/Folder 3/4
    • Description: Bird Observations Metcalf Wildlife Refuge Field notes

      Missing Years 1988-1992

      Dates: 1983-1987
      Container: Box/Folder 3/5
    • Description: Bird Observations Metcalf Wildlife Refuge Field notes
      Dates: 1993-2002
      Container: Box/Folder 3/6
    • Description: Bird Observations "Other Than", Field Journals (folder 1 of 5)

      Miscellaneous locations around western Montana

      Dates: 1990-1994
      Container: Box/Folder 3/7
    • Description: Bird Observations "Other Than", Field Journals (folder 2 of 5)
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box/Folder 3/8
    • Description: Bird Observations "Other Than", Field Journal (folder 3 of 5)

      Western Montana and Arizona

      Dates: 1995-1998
      Container: Box/Folder 3/9
    • Description: Bird Observations "Other Than", Field Journal (folder 4 of 5)

      Maclay Flats, Mount. Sentinel, Bitterroot Valley, State of Montana and State of Utah

      Dates: 1999-2006
      Container: Box/Folder 3/10
    • Description: Bird Observations "Other Than", Field Journal (folder 5 of 5)
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box/Folder 3/11
    • Description: Botanical Flora Observations Stark Mountain (folder 1 of 7)
      Dates: 1972-1982
      Container: Box/Folder 4/1
    • Description: Botanical Flora Observations Stark Mountain (folder 2 of 7)
      Dates: 1983-1986
      Container: Box/Folder 4/2
    • Description: Botanical Flora Observations Stark Mountain (folder 3 of 7)
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box/Folder 4/3
    • Description: Botanical Flora Observations Stark Mountain (folder 4 of 7)
      Dates: 1990-1995
      Container: Box/Folder 4/4
    • Description: Botanical Flora Observations Stark Mountain (folder 5 of 7)
      Dates: 1996-2001
      Container: Box/Folder 4/5
    • Description: Botanical Flora Observations Stark Mountain (folder 6 of 7)
      Dates: 2002-2009
      Container: Box/Folder 4/6
    • Description: Botanical Flora Observations Stark Mountain (folder 7 of 7)

      With notes of previous snow levels from 1990-2006

      Dates: 1990-2010
      Container: Box/Folder 4/7
    • Description: Botanical Flora Observations Red Hill Oregon
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box/Folder 4/8
    • Description: Flora Observations Note Cards

      Flora observation note cards, miscellaneous, no order

      Dates: 1970-2011
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Birders Field Journal Metcalf Wildlife Refuge
      Dates: 2003-2011
      Container: Box/Folder 5/1
    • Description: Bird Nesting Observations Note Cards

      Observations on bird nesting, not in any order, areas covered are Stark Mountain, bitterroot valley, Missoula, and Metcalf Wildlife refuge

      Dates: 1966-2006
      Container: Box/Folder 5/2
    • Description: Field Checklists Bird Observations Pamphlets miscellaneous

      Observation Pamphlets concerning bird species ranging from Central Montana, California, Oregon, Alaska, Utah, Colorado

      Dates: 1979-2010
      Container: Box/Folder 5/3
    • Description: Bird Inventories and Indexes of Montana Bird Wildlife, Five Valley's Audubon Society

      Short Indexes and Inventories of Bird Life in Western Montana, Upper Rattlesnake, and Eastern Montana, Fort Peck Reservation as well as material related to the Five Valleys Audubon Society

      Dates: 1977-2010
      Container: Box/Folder 6/1
    • Description: Bird Observations Field Journals Metcalf Wildlife Refugee
      Dates: 1976-1992
      Container: Box/Folder 6/2
    • Description: Bird Observations Field Journal, Missoula Montana

      Bird Observations across Missoula Montana, campus, residential, etc.

      Dates: January 1989-April 1990
      Container: Box/Folder 6/3
    • Description: Nest Record Program

      Including letters from Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology to Virginia

      Dates: 1976-1999
      Container: Box/Folder 6/4
    • Description: Bird Observations Fort Belknap, Metcalf Refuge, Missoula Montana, Stark Mountain

      Miscellaneous papers, and a journal with multiple Observations at various places, very few papers that were organized together

      Dates: 1958-2009
      Container: Box/Folder 6/5
    • Description: 1970 Bird Nesting Dates

      Small Date book with nesting dates of different bird species, sparsely written in.

      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box/Folder 6/6
  • Series III: Personal, 1931-2011

    0.25 linear feet
    • Description: Fourth Grade Newsletter

      Newsletter published by the fourth grade union congregational church school upper Montclair

      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 6/7
    • Description: Elementary School Work Booklets

      Booklets created by Virginia Vincent in Elementary school titled "my lighting book" and "my ship book"

      Dates: 1938-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 6/8
    • Description: School Work
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6/9
    • Description: Lighthouse Scrap Book
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6/10
    • Description: "Our Home Town", Lewis Vincent

      A book published by Virginia Vincent's father

      Dates: 1931
      Container: Box/Folder 6/11
    • Description: Christmas Greeting Card from Lewis Vincent
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6/12
    • Description: Photos Stark Mountain, West Fork Butte

      Madison fire, Stark Mountain July 1st, 1988 and a portrait of Bernice Patterson and Molly Morrison (May, June), 1990s

      Dates: 1988-1990s
      Container: Box/Folder 6/13
    • Description: Published Materials and News Clippings

      Washington post, Missoulian, and friends of the University of Montana herbarium

      Dates: 1989-2011
      Container: Box/Folder 6/14
    • Description: Forest Service Certificate of Appreciation
      Dates: 6/22/2000
      Container: Box/Folder 6/15
  • Series IV: Artifact, undated

    0.1 linear foot
    • Description: Compass

      A broken compass, presumably owned by Virginia Vincent

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7

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Subject Terms

  • Bird watchers--Montana--Missoula
  • Birds--Inited States
  • Birds--Montana
  • Fire lookouts--Montana--Lolo National Forest
  • Plants--Classification
  • Wildfires--Montana--Prevention and control

Personal Names

  • Vincent, Virginia, 1931-2020--Archives

Corporate Names

  • University of Montana (Missoula, Mont. : 1965-1994)

Geographical Names

  • Ninemile Ranger District (Mont.)
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