Power family photograph collection. 1872-1945

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Power family photograph collection. 1872-1945

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Thomas C. Power (1829-1923) came to Montana Territory in 1866 and established a successful mercantile and transportation network in and around Fort Benton serving miners, military posts, Indian tribes of the region, and local residents. In partnership with others he developed a transportation network of steamboats along the Upper Missouri as well as overland stage and freight routes. He moved his corporate headquarters to Helena in 1878 and had an interest in politics that paralleled his diverse business career. He was elected Montana's first senator, and during his six-year stay from 1890-1895 in Washington D.C., collected portraits of colleagues and officials with whom he worked "on the Hill." His only son, Charles Benton Power, Sr. (1868-1953) inherited his father's interests and pursued a variety of business enterprises including real estate, mining, ranching, logging, oil exploration, and mercantile operations throughout the state and region. The collection includes photographs of many of the business interests, including steamboats on the Missouri, as well as portraits of family, friends and social events enjoyed by extended family.

13 boxes; 1215 photographic prints (includes 1 album with 200 photographic prints, 12 oversized prints, 1 framed print, 6 engravings, and 4 tintypes); 35 nitrate film negatives

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Larson, Margaret Moran.

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Power, Catherine W. McLeer.

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Martin, T.L.

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Tobin, Jane Power d. 1988

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Power, John Merlin, 1888-1940

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Martin, Leo Thomas, 1888-

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Power, Charles Benton, 1868-1953

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Thomas C. Power was born in Dubuque, Iowa, May 22, 1829, the son of Irish immigrants, Michael Walsh Power and Catherine McLeer Power. He was raised on the family farm near Dubuque. The eldest of four children, Power worked on the farm while completing basic education courses offered in area schools. In his teens, Power attended Sissinawa Mound College, in Wisconsin, where he studied science and engineering. After three years of college course work, but without graduating, he returne...

Power, Mary Flanagan (Mrs. T. C. Power).

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Fort Benton Transportation Company.

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Power, John W., 1844-1901

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Power, Thomas C. (Thomas Charles), 1839-1923

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Thomas Charles Power was born at Dubuque, Iowa, May 22, 1839, the son of Irish immigrants, Michael W. Power and Catherine McLeer Power. In 1867, he travelled up the Missouri River to Fort Benton, Montana Territory and opened a general mercantile firm in partnership with his brother, John W. Power. T.C. Power and Brother and I. G. Baker and Company dominated trade and freighting on the northern plains by the mid 1870's. In connection with this trade, T.C. Power and severa...

Martin, Josephine Power, 1856-1904

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Georgetown College

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Power, Sarah E., 1848-1935

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Power, Margaret Mary.

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Power, Mabel Lamey Larson, d. 1918

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