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Montana State Board Of World's Fair Managers Records , 1891-1894

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers
Title
Montana State Board Of World's Fair Managers Records
Dates
1891-1894 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
RS 54
Summary
These Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers records consist of general and interoffice correspondence (1891-1894); financial records, a minute book (July 1891-March 1893); and miscellany. The Board of Lady Managers records consist of general and interoffice correspondence (1891-1894); reports (1892, undated); and miscellany. [ Printed material and artifacts transferred to Library and Museum respectively.]
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library and Archives
Montana Historical Society, Library and Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 406-444-2681
Fax: 406-444-5297
mthslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection 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

In 1890 the U.S. Congress created a World's Columbian Commission to organize the celebration for the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus which would occur in 1893. The World's Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chicago, was to feature international exhibits of the arts, industries, and manufacturers. The Montana Legislative Assembly passed an act in March 1891, "to provide for the collection, arrangement and display of the products of the state of Montana at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and to make appropriation therefore." Members of the Board of World's Fair Managers of the State of Montana were appointed by the governor. L.H. Hershfield, Dr. A.H. Mitchell, B.F. White, and T.E. Collins represented Montana on the Exposition's national committee. The state Board was composed of Walter M. Bickford, executive commissioner; Stephen DeWolf, president; Allan R. Joy, vice president; David G. Browne, treasurer; and James G. Ramsay, secretary. Other members included Philip Lovell, C.R. Middleton, A.J. Stephens, Thomas Joyes, Dr. D.A. Pease, H.O. Chowen, George W. Morse, W.M. Nevitt, A.J. Davidson, W.H. Sutherlin, and George M. Hayes. In addition to this group, Montana also had a committee of Lady Managers which included Mrs. R.B. Harrison, Eliza A. Rickards, Clara L. McAdow, Laura E. Howey, and Mariam D. Cooper.

The Board organized the planning for the Exposition by creating committees including mines and mining, agriculture, livestock, building and building material, auditing, ladies department, statistics, rules and bylaws, and education. Efforts were made to create county organizations to plan and develop exhibits best illustrating the resources and products of the area. One goal for the exhibits was to attract people to Montana for settlement. The Montana State Building in Chicago's Jackson Park housed many exhibits from Montana although items were exhibited in other facilities such as the Mines and Mining Building, the Women's Building, etc. Montana also sent a silver statue representing Liberty to illustrate the mineral wealth of the state. The Board worked closely with the World's Columbian Commission and was required to adhere to rules concerning structures, spacing, and quality of exhibits created by the Commission. The Board completed its work in 1894.

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Content Description

The Board of World's Fair Managers of the State of Montana Records are divided into two subgroups. The first subgroup is for the Board itself and includes general and interoffice correspondence, financial records, minute book (1891-1893), miscellany, and clippings. The second subgroup is for the Lady Managers and includes general and interoffice correspondence, financial records, organizational materials, reports, miscellany, and clippings. Printed material and artifacts have been transferred to the Library and Museum respectively.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

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

The collection is arranged by subgroup and then series.

Location of Collection

18:7-6

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information is available upon request.

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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

  • Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers

    • General correspondence

      • Description: A-F (correspondents include Sue G. Anderson, A.H. Andrews and Company; D.C. Bass, Big Blackfoot Milling Company, A.H. Bradley, Lawrence A. Brown, Charles H. Buck, Butte and Montana Commercial Company, Butte Bystander, William Andrews Clark, J.B. Collins, Jerry Collins, T.E. Collins, S.H. Conrow, Joseph R. DeLamar, William DeVere, Louis DeLestry, J.T.W. DeJong, Allen W. Easterly, Henry Elling, August Fack, Joseph M. Fegtly, Mrs. George F. Field, O.C. French, Monroe Fulkerson)
        Dates: 1891-1893
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
        Location: Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers / General correspondence
      • Description: G-N (correspondents include I.J. Galbraith, H.S. Gilbert; William L. Greene, H.J. Haskell, George M. Hatch, Frances I. Hobson, O. Jeldness, E.H. Johnson, Rev. F.D. Kelsey, William R. Kerr, C.E. LeMunyon, Liberty's Golden Book, William Lorey, N.J. McConnell, James H. MacKnight, John C. Mahoney, R.J. Martin, James A. Maywood, S.J. Merritt, E.A. Morris, O.C. Mortson, William Muth, John S.M. Neill, George W. Newkirk, W.E. Nichols, S.N. Nicholson, C.B. Nolan, Northern Pacific Railroad Company, William Norwood)
        Dates: 1891-1893
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
        Location: Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers / General correspondence
      • Description: P-Z (correspondents include H.B. Palmer, R. Parkhurst, Paulsen and Lavalle, W.G. Pruitt, Gov. J.E. Richards, J.A. Riley, Peter Ronan, James B.F. Shuart, W. Schultz, G.C. Swallow, E.W. Toole, Emma J. Ware, Waukesha Hygeia Mineral Springs Company, Weisenhorn Carriage Manufacturing Company, L.C. Willmot, Mrs. G.B. Winston, W.F. Wittich, A.K. Yerkes, Robert G. Young, Paul Zuber)
        Dates: 1891-1893
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
        Location: Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers / General correspondence
      • Description: Form letters (from Board of World's Fair Managers seeking outstanding examples of Montana's crops, livestock, minerals, natural flora, educational material, etc. for exhibit in Montana's pavilion)
        Dates: 1891-1893, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
        Location: Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers / General correspondence

    • Interoffice correspondence

    • Financial records

    • Minutes

    • Printed material

    • Miscellany

      • Description: List of artifacts separated to the Museum
        Dates:
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11
        Location: Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers / Miscellany
      • Description: Request for bids for construction of Montana State Building; mines and mining exhibit information; list of members and minutes of meeting for Fruit Growers of Missoula County; list of fossils in Homer Squyer collection; Southern Montana Agricultural Mineral and Mechanical Association fair brochure; Montana Education Exhibit circular; Jackson park map; Crop Reports map from Gallatin Valley
        Dates: 1891-1892, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
        Location: Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers / Miscellany
      • Description: Resolutions (salaried employees; appointment of Professor O.C. Martson; appointment of Laura Howey to supervise exhibit in Chicago)
        Dates: 1893, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
        Location: Montana State Board of World's Fair Managers / Miscellany

    • Clippings

  • Lady Managers

    • General correspondence

      • Description: A-D (correspondents include A.H. Andrews and Company, Connie A. Andrews, Frances E. Bagley, Emma W. Baker, Lena E. Ballard, Virginia G. Bass, Katherine L. Beach, Rosa Beall, Mrs. N.B.R. Belcher, Emma Bickford, Susie M. Bickford, Mrs. J.F. Bishop, Mary Linton Bookwalter, Harriet E. Botkin, Mrs. George F. Brooks, Emily Buhrer, Cynthia F. Burg, Lizzie Burnett, Ida L. Busha, Mrs. Emmett R. Carroll, Nellie V. Chessman, Ida L. Chisholm, Lena B. Clarke, Mrs. C.E. Collins, Frances Comfort, Lillian P. Conner, Mrs. G.F. Cowan, Flora A. Davis, Mrs. S.K. Davis, Linnie G. Dawkins, Dollie Donovan, Olivia Duer)
        Dates: 1891-1893
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
        Location: Lady Managers / General correspondence
      • Description: E-M (correspondents include Emma Emmons, Frances C. English, Jennie W. Ennis, Mrs. George F. Field, Lydia A. Fitch, Sallie C. Flood, Lucy T. Folsom, Mrs. H.L. Glenn, Mary Hackett, Louise Hammond, Zoe Harmon, Nellie Harper, Agnes S. Harris, Mrs. Harsh, Ellen D.W. Hatch, Ellen F. Hauser, Edna L. Hedges, Delia A. Kellogg, Maude H. King, Agnes C. Knight, Ada Lathrop, Helen C. Lohman, Melvina J. Lott, Annie Loud, Mary McCormick, Flora McNulty, Bessie Marrion, Marshall Field and Company, Frances E. Moore, Mary B. Moore, Mrs. M.E. Merk, Estella A. Muth)
        Dates: 1891-1893
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
        Location: Lady Managers / General correspondence
      • Description: N-Y (correspondents include Lillie Nutting, Fannie O'Bannon, Ida O'Bannon, Minnie B. Parker, Mary S. Phillips, A.D. Prescott, Alice W. Quinn, D.J. Richards, Gov. J.E. Richards, L.H. Roethe, Martha Edgerton Rolfe, Mary C. Ronan, Laura M. Scott, Rebecca M. Shipman, Carrie V. Shuman, Eliza A. Rickards, Silver Bow Association, Mrs. John M. Smith, Lulu Spraker, Mrs. E.S. Stackpole, Lydia Tatem, Mrs. R.Z. Thomas, Helen Thornton, Mrs. John Tilton, Hattie Traphagen, Mattie S. Waite, Mrs. F.A. Walling, Mrs. V.P. Walker, Emma Ware, William F. Wheeler, May E. White, Emma D. Willson, Mary C. Woodward, Kate R. Worden, Mrs. W.M. Wright, R.G. Yaney, Mrs. H.C. Yeager)
        Dates: 1891-1893
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17
        Location: Lady Managers / General correspondence
      • Description: Form letters (to county Columbian Associations, etc)
        Dates: 1892-1893
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
        Location: Lady Managers / General correspondence

    • Interoffice correspondence

      • Description: Officers, executive commissioner, national committee, lady managers, members
        Dates: 1891-1894, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19-21
        Location: Lady Managers / Interoffice correspondence
      • Description: Montana Board of World's Fair Managers, Lady Managers, and World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
        Dates: 1891-1894, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
        Location: Lady Managers / Interoffice correspondence

    • Financial records

      • Description: Contributions to Children's Building; insurance list; checks drawn; price list; etc.
        Dates: 1893, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
        Location: Lady Managers / Financial records

    • Organization

      • Description: Articles for Park County Columbian Association
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24
        Location: Lady Managers / Organization

    • Reports

      • Description: Lewis and Clark Columbian Exposition Association; Beaverhead County Columbian Exposition Association; Committee on Mines and Mining; Committee on Ethnology and Archeology; final report of Women's Department
        Dates: 1892, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 25
        Location: Lady Managers / Reports

    • Miscellany

      • Description: Description of Lady Manager's organization and fair exhibits by Laura Howey
        Dates: 1893
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 26
        Location: Lady Managers / Miscellany
      • Description: Exhibit lists, receipts, permits, regulations, applications, etc.
        Dates: 1893
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 27
        Location: Lady Managers / Miscellany
      • Description: List of lady assistants, musicians, lady officers; instructions for hostess in Montana State Building; duties of the Board of Lady Managers; lists and regulations for jurors; Columbian Liberty Bell announcement; music regulations; lady managers circulars; items for visitors pamphlet; Women's Dormitory Association pamphlet
        Dates: 1893, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 1 / 28
        Location: Lady Managers / Miscellany

    • Clippings

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Subject Terms

  • Exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago
  • Exhibitions--Montana

Finding aid prepared by MHS Staff
2004

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