Mayhew Yale “Bo” Foster was born October 9, 1911 in Richmond, Virginia. As a child, he spent his summers on his family’s ranch near Glacier National Park in Montana. Foster graduated from Yale University in 1933 before hitchhiking back to Montana during the Great Depression. Once in Montana, Foster found a job working for the U.S Forest Service. In Missoula, Montana, he met Virginia Walters, a member of Missoula’s well-known Greenough Family and Tennessee Greenough’s great-niece. The couple married in 1940. The Fosters lived in the guest cottage of the Greenough Mansion following their marriage and had one child named Susan. During World War II, Foster was a Brigadier General and Army Pilot who was awarded the Silver Star for his involvement in “Riviera D-Day” in France. After the war, Foster is credited with starting Missoula’s first National Guard Unit, the 443rd Field Artillery Battalion. Foster died on March 21, 2011 in Missoula.
This collection contains 14 photonegative copies from Greenough family member Mayhew “Bo” Foster’s personal photograph album. Included are images of Missoula, Montana’s Greenough Park, the Greenough family’s first house in the Rattlesnake Creek drainage, the Vine Street Bridge, and captive bears held in Greenough Park. Also included are photographs of unidentified people and locations. It is presumed that the location of these unmarked photographs is Greenough Park. The original images were captured between the 1890s and 1910s. The reproductions were created in 2002 for the 100-year anniversary of Greenough Park.
This collection is arranged by photograph number and alphabetically by subject matter.
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Mayhew Yale Foster Collection of Greenough Park Photographs, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, the University of Montana-Missoula.
The images in this collection were reproduced from Mayhew “Bo” Foster’s personal photograph album, which he loaned to the University of Montana Archives and Special Collections in 2002 for copying. The Archives does not hold the original photograph album.
Kathleen Kennedy with the Friends of the Library facilitated the loan and reproduction of Foster's photographs with the Archvies and Special Collections in June 2002 in conjuction with the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Greenough Park.
In processing, the photonegative copies were placed in envelopes. Original image titles were maintained in processing and unlabeled images where given descriptive titles based on content by the Archives. The images were then arranged alphabetically and assigned photograph numbers.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Likely Rattlesnake Creek