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Photo, Print, Drawing Scenes in Butte, Montana

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About this Item

Title

  • Scenes in Butte, Montana

Names

  • Young, Kay, 1931- (Collector)
  • Young, Kay, 1931- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Butte, Montana, August 23, 1979 - August 27, 1979

Headings

  • -  Buildings
  • -  Amelanchier
  • -  Headstones
  • -  Mural painting and decoration
  • -  Marquees
  • -  Painted doors
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Montana -- Butte

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Note: Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  Index data: Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: probably at the at a cemetery in Butte MT: 1-2, gravestones, stone cut to look like log cross, John Robinson (d. 1910, age 92), background William O. (1846-1928) and Arty (1851-1933) Mallahan, with Mason and Eastern Star symbols; images of juneberry bushes south of Bozeman: 3-7, juneberry bush (Amelanchier alnifolia); 8-12, fieldworker Kay Young photographing Juneberry bush, these photographs taken by fieldworker Paula Johnson; scenes in Butte MT: 13, the Capri motel with dead palm tree; 14, building, corner of Idaho and Granite Streets, known as the Copper King Mansion or William Andrews Clark mansion; 15-17, looking south on Idaho Street from Copper Street; 18-19, home at 301 and 303 West Copper Street; 20, five girls in front of home at 301 and 303 West Copper Street, Kathy Bartz, Kelly Green, Michelle Hogart, Tracy Holland, and Michelle Davis; 21, looking east on Copper Street; 22, house on southwest corner of intersection of Copper and Idaho Streets (may be 321 Idaho St.); 23-27, back side of apartment building on Park Street, between Montana and Dakota Streets; 28-29, painted door in State Cafe Building, 16 (and 20 1/2?) South Main, "Big Sky Country, Butte 20 1/2 Mont., Birth Place the Best Place Always, Butte is the best city in America, Butte, best street is the South Main Street, July 21, 1971, Designed and Fixed by Dan C. Buller," and additional slogans; 30-31, wide shot of State Cafe building, "Booths for Ladies"; 32-33, mural in downtown Butte with depictions of mining and other features of the city's life; 34 and 37, the Clark Chateau, the former home of Charles and Katherine Clark, the eldest son of William Andrews Clark, 321 West Broadway; 35-36, movie theater on Park St. between Washington and Idaho Sts. (in 2017 the "Mother Lode Theater"), marquee "A Force of One, Chuck Norris"; 37, Charles Walker Clark mansion.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/005: 84603

Source Collection

  • Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Young, Kay, and Kay Young. Scenes in Butte, Montana. United States Montana Butte, 1979. Butte, Montana, - August 27, 1979. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1981005_84603/.

APA citation style:

Young, K. & Young, K. (1979) Scenes in Butte, Montana. United States Montana Butte, 1979. Butte, Montana, - August 27, 1979. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1981005_84603/.

MLA citation style:

Young, Kay, and Kay Young. Scenes in Butte, Montana. Butte, Montana, - August 27, 1979. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1981005_84603/>.