Images of Montana and the West, 1800-1919

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Images of Montana and the West, 1800-1919

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This collection contains images of people andplaces in the Montana and Dakota Territories and other locations in thewestern United States. Individuals photographed include Calamity Jane,Malcolm Clark, Theodore Roosevelt, and others. Places photographedinclude towns, mining camps, wilderness areas, and forts. Imagesprimarily include originals and reproductions of black and whitephotographic prints and sketches; there is one stereographic print.Items date primarily from the 1860s to 1890s.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6656079

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Calamity Jane, 1852-1903

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Calamity Jane, born Martha Jane Canary, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. In addition to many exploits, she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok. Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. She is said to have exhibited compassion to others, especially to the sick and needy. This facet of her character contrasted with her daredevil ways and helped to make her a noted frontier figure. She ...

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

William Andrews Clark memorial library

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The library and its collections were built by William Andrews Clark, Jr., and named after his father, who had built a mining fortune in MT. The son, a prominent Los Angeles book collector and philanthropist, had a house at the corner of Adams and Cimarron Streets, and from 1924 to 1926 he constructed the present library on the same lot. Shortly afterwards he announced his intent to donate the collection, the buildings, and the square-block property to UCLA. When he died in 1934 the deed passed t...

Kessler, Charles N. (Charles Nickolas), 1874-1957

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Charles Nickolas Kessler was born on 7 July 1874 in Montana to Nickolas Kessler and Louisa Ebert. In 1891 he began working at his father's Montana brewery. He later attended a Chicago school where he was involved in the pioneering of scientific brewing methods. He graduated from the school in 1895 after which he returned to Montana and assumed the presidency of the brewery. He was an officer and founding member of the United States Brewers Association and was actively involved in the anti-prohib...