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Lee M. Ford papers, 1878-1977

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Ford, Lee M.
Title
Lee M. Ford papers
Dates
1878-1977 (inclusive)
Quantity
13 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
UPMC 46A (85:1-5); UPMC 46B (85:2-1)
Summary
Lee M. Ford was a businessman in Great Falls, Montana. His papers consist primarily of subject files (1878-1977) of his personal papers, and those of the Ford family, as well as records of the Ford Brothers Corporation. The files are primarily composed of general correspondence including letters concerning the sale of Charles M. Russell paintings. Also included in the collection are financial records (1914-1957), organizational records (1914-1924), and miscellany. (UPMC 46A 85:1-5; UPMC 46B 85:2-1)
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
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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

by series

Location of Collection

UPMC 46A (85:1-5); UPMC 46B (85:2-1)

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

Processing Note

Preliminary sorting

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Subject Files

    • Description: [NOTE: for additional personal correspondence of Lee and Shirley Ford see Miscellany folder 12]
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder /
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Aircade (re Helena air show)
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Allen, Martha
      Dates: 1941-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Allen, Mrs. Samuel
      Dates: 1924-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Altman, B. (re lamp and dress)
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: American Museum of Natural History (New York)
      Dates: 1929-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: American Pioneer Trails Association
      Dates: 1945-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: American Taxpayer League
      Dates: 1932-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Antelope
      Dates: 1932-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Arabian Horses
      Dates: 1961-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Aronson, Hugo, Governor
      Dates: 1956-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Arrow Peak Farm
      Dates: 1915-1921
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Arrowheads
      Dates: 1929-1954
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12-13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Artifacts, etc.
      Dates: 1949-1961
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ashby, Norma and Shirley (Christmas letter)
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ashby, Jack
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Augusta News (Mrs. "Lige" Louise M. Hicks)
      Dates: 1942-1975
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Babcock, Tim, Governor
      Dates: 1962-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Battin, James
      Dates: 1963-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Battin, Babcock, Blewett (campaigns)
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Battin for Congress
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 21
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Beatty, Guy
      Dates: 1946-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Bell, W.A. (re Ledgerwood land)
      Dates: 1924-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Bets (re gambling)
      Dates: 1928-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Birch, Fred
      Dates: 1946-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 25
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Birds
      Dates: 1949-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 26
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Blankenbaker
      Dates: 1940-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 27
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Blood clot
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 28
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Bohemian Grove [re Bohemian club]
      Dates: 1952-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 29
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Bonner, John W., Governor
      Dates: 1949-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 30
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: B ? (re a Highway Commission controversy)
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 31
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Books
      Dates: 1938-1969
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 32
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Brown, Barnum
      Dates: 1929-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 33
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Brown-Eyed Queen Mining Company
      Dates: 1896, 1927-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 34
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Browning Hall of Fame
      Dates: 1932-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 35
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Buck, Ballie (Belknap, Mont.)
      Dates: 1932-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 36
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Burks, F.M.
      Dates: 1926-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 37
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Buttrey Broadcast, Inc
      Dates: 1945-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 38
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Campaigns (include correspondence re Nixon-Lodge, and Nutter campaigns)
      Dates: 1949-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 39
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Campbell, Alexander
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 40
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Cartoons
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 41
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Casals, Pablo (cellist)
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 42
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Cascade, First State Bank of (re stock)
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 43
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Cats
      Dates: 1960-1961
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 44
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Cemetery (L.M.F. notations)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 45
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Centennial
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 46
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Certificates, memberships
      Dates: 1915-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 47
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Chicago
      Dates: 1940-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 48
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Chief Joseph
      Dates: 1972-1977
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 49
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Christmas (buffalo, Christmas parties, greetings, turkeys)
      Dates: 1937-1945
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 50-54
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Clippings
      Dates: 1896-1925 1937-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1-2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Committees, etc., on which L.M.F. served
      Dates: 1924-1961
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Conrad, Fritz (Frederick)
      Dates: 1944-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Coolidge, E.M.
      Dates: 1940-1953
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Corey, Clark and Clara(?)
      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Corkscrew, misc. (staff newsletter from Great Falls airfield??)
      Dates: 1940-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Couch, Ned, E.G.
      Dates: 1909-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Couch, Tom
      Dates: 1927-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Crosby, John
      Dates: 1957-1961
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Crutcher (Wm. H. Crutcher - Industries)
      Dates: 1910-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Currency (misprinted)
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Cycads (cycadeoid plant)
      Dates: 1934-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Dempsey (re Jack Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons fight)
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Doctors
      Dates: 1930-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15-16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Dogs
      Dates: 1942-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Dundas, D.J.
      Dates: 1946-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 18
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Earthquake '06
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 19
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Eglin Air Force Base, (Florida): Firepower show
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 20
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Faegre, Mrs. Robert (Shirley)
      Dates: 1940-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 21
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Fifty year anniversary (Montana Bankers Association Club)
      Dates: 1956-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 22
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Fitzpatrick mining claim (sold to Hasterlick)
      Dates: 1887-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 23
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Fletcher, Robert H.
      Dates: 1937-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 24
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Floweree Groves (includes letter with biographical information re Dan Floweree)
      Dates: 1924-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 25
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "taxes"
      Dates: 1913,1927, 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 26
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "West side lots"
      Dates: 1943-1953
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 27
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Ford building given to bank"
      Dates: 1923-1924
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 28
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Ford Corporation"
      Dates: 1932-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 29-31
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Woehner Guarantee, 1939"
      Dates: 1933-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 32
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Donovan vs. Great Falls Bank et al"
      Dates: 1936-1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 33
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Ford Brothers"
      Dates: 1943,1955
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 34
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Ford Building..."
      Dates: 1914-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 35-38
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Taxes"
      Dates: 1943-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 39-40
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Ford Corporation Financial Report"
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 41
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Ford Corporation 1937 and 1938"
      Dates: 1935-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 42
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Ford Corporation" (includes taxes for 1943-1953)
      Dates: 1935-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1-2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Misc."
      Dates: 1955-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Ford Corporation"
      Dates: 1941-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4-5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Chisholm loan"
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Ford Corporation"
      Dates: 1930-1932
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7-9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "(Contract for deed, abstracts of title, Ford Brothers audit reports)
      Dates: 1913-1937
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: (Misc.)
      Dates: 1924, 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Brothers: "Ford Corporation"
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Tribune" (75th Anniversary Edition) - Article by L.M.F.
      Dates: 1959-1961
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Articles by L.M.F."
      Dates: 1952-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Editorials by L.M.F."
      Dates: 1953-1957
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "L.M.F." (inc. obituary clippings)
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Will of L.M.F."
      Dates: 1930-1971
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Mrs. Lee M. Ford"
      Dates: 1932-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 18
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Mrs. R.S. Ford Embolism (includes Ford family burial site list, Sun River Cemetery)
      Dates: 1892,1941
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 19
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Mrs. S.S. Ford (Bessie)"
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 20
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: Mrs. S.S. Ford ("Mar. 5, 1954 Newhart letter re assg. to Shirley Faegre")
      Dates: 1943-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 21
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: (Misc.)
      Dates: 1928,1941
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 22
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Ford, S.S."
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 23
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Data of visit to Comptroller of Currency"
      Dates: 1922-1927
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 24
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Ford, S.S., Teton Land Sale"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 25
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Ford, S.S., Teton Land Co., Wergeland"
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 26
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Ford, S.S." (includes memorial, clippings, correspondence of Mrs. Ford)
      Dates: 1906-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 27-30
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Saddles sale of Highwood land, marriage of Rodgers boy - Aunt Gertrude's ward"
      Dates: 1941-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 31
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Lee Ford Historical - Ford Corporation"
      Dates: 1956-1957
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Robert Ford"
      Dates: 1888-1901
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Misc. letters L.M. Ford"
      Dates: 1925-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Lee M. Ford Misc."
      Dates: 1923-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: (Misc.)
      Dates: 1927,1958
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Democratic State Central Committee"
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Ford, S.S. (Mrs.)"
      Dates: 1946-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7-11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "S.S. Ford (Personal), Mollie's birth, Mrs. Phineas Henry's death, Barney Bolch hired at Teton Ranch"
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Ford S.S."
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: "Ford S.S." (S.S. Ford's last letters)
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ford Family: (Misc.)
      Dates: 1950-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Fox, Chas. J.
      Dates: 1949-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gad, A.A.
      Dates: 1960-1961
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gordon, Bob
      Dates: 1962-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 18
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gough, Newell
      Dates: 1960-1969
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 19
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Great Falls Realty (bank statements and check stubs)
      Dates: 1931-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 20
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Great Northern R.R. Co. & C.M. St. P & P.R. Co. agreements
      Dates: 1938-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 21
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Gun, double barrel
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 22
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Heisey (Heisey Company, Wholesale Grocers)
      Dates: 1927-1935
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 23
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Horses, LMF, personal
      Dates: 1935-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 24
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Indians
      Dates: 1929-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 25
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: IXL Consolidated Mining Company
      Dates: 1864-1895
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 26
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Kerman, George
      Dates: 1951-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 27
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Kumpf, Jack F.
      Dates: 1946-1953
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 28
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Livestock Pavilion (includes old Montana bank letterheads)
      Dates: 1920, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 29
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Livestock Pavilion, Montana
      Dates: 1929-1926
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 30
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Long Investment Co.
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 31
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Lowry, Goodrich
      Dates: 1955-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 32
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: M (re mining claims, medicine bundles and wheels buffalo traps, fossils and stone artifacts)
      Dates: 1925-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 33
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Manning Gold Scales (includes correspondence with W.M. and Gertrude Manning re Indian artifacts and antique china)
      Dates: 1932-1947
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 34
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: McClanahan (correspondence to Sue McClanahan from Selia Page and Loudie Phillips)
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 35
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: McLellan, Pauline
      Dates: 1955-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 36
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Meadow Lark Country Club. (Orig. Receipt of Lee M. Ford)
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 37
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Meadow Lark Country Club
      Dates: 1947-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 38
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Meadow Lark Country Club (beginning)
      Dates: 1925-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 39
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Memberships
      Dates: 1919-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Livestock Loan Co.
      Dates: 1934-1936
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Magazine
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Montana Society of Natural History
      Dates: 1936-1941
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Newcomen (The Newcomen Society of England)
      Dates: 1942-1953
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Nixon, Richard
      Dates: 1960-1961
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Nutter, Donald, Governor
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: N.W. Banco (re Bancorporation and an affidavit re A.R. Pardue)
      Dates: 1929,1956
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: North Bench Land Company and Highwood Bank
      Dates: 1927-1938
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: O'Day, R.S. "Dick" and Gertrude O'Day
      Dates: 1960-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Park Commissioner (Great Falls)
      Dates: 1921-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Party invitations
      Dates: 1938-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Personal oil leases
      Dates: 1924-1929
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Pigeons
      Dates: 1924-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 14-18
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Poetry
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 19
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Poetry: permission to use
      Dates: 1962-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 20
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Remodeling (Letters of congratulations on bank)
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 21
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Retirement (L.M.F.)
      Dates: 1945-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 22-24
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Rifles
      Dates: 1942-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 25-26
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Ringland, Mrs. Joe F. "Rebecca"
      Dates: 1939-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 27
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Rogers Memorial Fund (Will)
      Dates: 1931-1936
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 28
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Royce, Ralph (Letters)
      Dates: 1944-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 29
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Russell, C.M.: Estate of
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Russell, C.M.: Letters of
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Russell, C.M.: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1929-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 3-6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Russell, C.M.: for J.F. Ringland
      Dates: 1955-1957
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Russell, C.M.: Jerk Line (sale of Russell Painting)
      Dates: 1934-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 8-9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Russell, C.M.: Trigg-Russell Memorial newspaper clippings
      Dates: 1950-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Russell, C.M.: Trigg-Russell Gallery, C.M. Russell Paintings
      Dates: 1957-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Russell, C.M.: Trigg-Russell Memorial Foundation
      Dates: 1951-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: St. Paul School Alumni
      Dates: 1930-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Salad dressing, G.N. Ry., Chef
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Samuel, A.J.
      Dates: 1886-1904
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sheep
      Dates: 1907-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sheep's Head
      Dates: 1915-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Simpson, John, Capt. (includes biographical sketch of John C. Ford)
      Dates: 1914-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 18
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Slogan: "There is no substitute for experience"
      Dates: 1947-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 19
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: State highway (includes correspondence and records of Ford as Highway Commissioner)
      Dates: 1947-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Stocks, Northwest Bancorporation, etc.
      Dates: 1931-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Stocks: L.M.F. (personal)
      Dates: 1930-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sun River Cemetery (maps-plans, includes check stubs of Great Falls Natl. Realty)
      Dates: 1918,1948- 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sun River Cemetery Association
      Dates: 1944-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5-6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sun River Cemetery
      Dates: 1950-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 7-9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Sun River Sun
      Dates: 1959, UNDATED
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Thomas, Myles (Opinions from H/W attorney re Montana Highway Patrol)
      Dates: 1949-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Tusler, Montana - Prehistoric deposits
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Uncle" letter
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: [University of Utah?]
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 14
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: W [Wallace, William?]
      Dates: 1924-1930
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 15-16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Wallace, William. Sr., Cle Elum
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 17
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Wallace Investment Company
      Dates: 1924-1930
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 18-20
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Western Drilling Company
      Dates: 1929-1930
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 21
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: [Western Petroleum Exploration, personal oil lease?]
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 22
      Location: Subject Files

  • Organizational Records

    • Description: Choteau Petroleum & Gas: Corporation record
      Dates: 1920-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: Ford Brothers: Corporation record
      Dates: 1914-1924
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / Vol. 1
      Location: Organizational Records

  • Financial Records

    • Description: Ford Brothers: Ledgers
      Dates: 1915-1923
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 2-3
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Ford Brothers: Real estate book
      Dates: 1915?
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / Vol. 2
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Ford Building: Trial balance (includes balance sheets and operating statements)
      Dates: 1919-1925
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 4
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Ford Corporation: Checkbook stubs
      Dates: 1943-1957
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Great Falls National Realty Company: Bank statements and checks
      Dates: 1926-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 6
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Great Falls National Realty Company: Stock certificate book
      Dates: 1918-1937
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Great Falls National Realty Company: Tax returns
      Dates: 1918-1940
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 2
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Unidentified ledger
      Dates: 1914-1915
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 3
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: "Stagecoach Mary", original story and screenplay (re Mary Fields)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 4
      Location: Financial Records

  • Miscellany

    • Description: (Misc. including legal papers for Brown-Eyed Queen Mining Company)
      Dates: 1910-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 5
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: (Abstracts of title)
      Dates: 1897-1930
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 6
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: (Photocopy of Affidavit re post mortem of Jesse James)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 7
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Soo Line Railroad: Safety rules
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 8
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Montana Stockgrowers Association: (Typescript of minutes of organizing meeting in 1880; biographical reminiscence re early "Social Activities", and other historical writings)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 9
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 10
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Misc. data re Ford Corporation, Great Falls National Realty Company, and Great Falls National Bank
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 11
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: "Personal Letters" (General correspondence of Lee Ford including letters with Shirley Ford)
      Dates: 1929-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 12
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Misc. certificates and legal documents, most are re Erich Intze of Great Falls. All documents are in German.
      Dates: 1899-1912
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 13
      Location: Miscellany

Preliminary finding aid prepared by MHS staff
2007

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