Edith Rolfe Maxwell papers, 1933-1946.

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Edith Rolfe Maxwell papers, 1933-1946.

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Correspondence (1933-1946); school papers; coursework by Edith Maxwell and Edward Hollister (dates unknown); working papers for Great Falls Yesterday (1938-1939); writings (1940?); and miscellany, mainly related to the compilation of the book Great Falls Yesterday.

1.25 linear ft.

Cascade County Historical Society, Archives

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Maxwell, Edith Rolfe, 1886-1963

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Edith Rolfe Maxwell was born in Helena, Mont., on 22 Jan. 1886 to Herbert Percy Rolfe, surveyor for the Great Falls Townsite and Martha Edgerton Rolfe Plassman, the daughter of Sidney Edgerton, first governor of Montana Territory. The Rolfe family moved to Great Falls from Fort Benton in spring of 1884. Edith taught high school history, was secretary of the art unit of the Montana Institute of Arts, and president ofthe Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers. She married Arthur B. Maxwell who die...

United States. Works Progress Administration (Mont.)

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In 1935, almost a fourth of the population of Montana, or about 137,000 persons, were dependent upon some form of federal, state, or county relief assistance. Up to that point, relief came in New Deal programs such as old age assistance, Aid to dependent children, or the construction programs of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and Army Corps of Engineers. Certainly one of the largest federal projects was the construction of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana. Already by 1935 it wa...

Hollister, Edward

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