Looking east on Park Street, Butte, Montana. Streetcar tracks run down the center of the street with a streetcar on the tracks. A car is on the street, and pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. 1908. #mthistory #montana #history buff.ly/2LIWHik

Try our HistoricMT app to virtually visit the Rundle Bldg in Glasgow. Its basement housed a billiards room, bowling alley, & 5-chair barber shop with a Turkish bath steam cabinet and two showers for after a night on the town. historicmt.org/items/show/2130 #mthist MTHistoricalSociety #archives

Rev. L. B. Stateler brought Southern Methodism to #Montana in 1864. G. O. Hilton was appointed first pastor at Corvallis in 1871. His tenure ended a month later when a falling tree killed him. More: historicmt.org/items/show/1725 #mthist MTHistoricalSociety #mthistory #history #archives #mtnews

Facing the Rising Tide: How the Whitney Museum of American Art Addresses Resiliency & Storm Preparedness Through Design Consider New York City, where cultural sites are currently at risk from floods and rising sea levels. ifcpp.org/news/9435213

This hand-tinted post card of Sperry Glacier is dated 1907. That's 3 years before the Park was established! The card was mailed to the Pine Knob Ranch in Sula, Montana. #postcardsfromthepast #ravallimuseum

Frank Woody's first Christmas in Missoula was 1856. He spent Christmas camping with others at Council Grove. Their meals "were laid upon a half cured buffalo hide, hard and stiff, spread upon the ground with the hair down...but it was a merry meal and we all enjoyed it."

Today's HistoricMT app takes us to a single female boarding house (aka brothel) that shared the block with the original jail in 1912. The 10x10-foot wood-framed jail had only enough room for one cell! #mthist MTHistoricalSociety #mthistory #MontanaMoment #Montana historicmt.org/items/show/842

Grass Range, Montana. Grass Range was located by J. H. Charters in 1890; he built a general store, hotel and livery stable to serve the early ranchers. He sold the townsite to the Milwaukee Railroad in 1893. Grass Range Stage. #mthistory #montana #history buff.ly/2WnYqeQ

Interior of Morton J. Elrod home. 205 South 5th East, Missoula, Montana. Christmas celebration. Seven adults and two children sit in a room. A decorated Christmas tree is visible in the background. #mthistory #montana #history buff.ly/39XBpaz

Last chance to see Love Letters to the Collection! 💌 #closingsoon: this special exhibit featuring selections from the Contemporary American Indian Art Collection. Come see it today or tomorrow! #mamloveletters

Bozeman streetcar. Bozeman, Montana, streetcar number 2 of the G.L.P. & Railway Company. The side of the car reads 'Capitol Hill, Bozeman Hotel, Depot.' Conductor stands at doorway of streetcar on the right. #mthistory #montana #history buff.ly/3mklPbK

The Margaret Hotel in Bonner, Montana, had in 1892 thirty-five living rooms for guests, parlors, a dining room for dancing, and billiard rooms and bar. @fortmissoulamuseum instagram.com/p/CJHo9b3HOs3/… #ravallimuseum #bonnermt #mthistory

The stage that ran from Bonner to Missoula. Photograph of the stage that ran from Bonner to Missoula. The stage is loaded with many items and shows the driver, known as Friday, holding the reins, a boy sits to the right. #mthistory #montana #history buff.ly/2KDaoia

Maiden, Montana. The main street of the gold mining town of Maiden in the Judith Mountains, Montana. Many buildings line both sides of the street. The Maiden band is in a semi-circle in the street on New Year's Day. 1887. #mthistory #montana #history buff.ly/38dMt10

Looks like January! Wintertime at the cabin. The main cabin at Coyote Forest following a snowstorm. #mthistory #montana #history buff.ly/3o9gAgM

The description says there is a tent but it doesn't seem obvious. Tent and snowshoes. Because it has been established with concern for nature, little sign of man will remain after this base camp is removed from the forest. #mthistory #montana #history buff.ly/2MfCUqS

They don't make them like this anymore: Circa 1890 wedding slippers. They're silk dark cream color with a narrow, pointed toe and French heel that's 1.5" tall. The vamp is beaded in white beads, in a geometric floral pattern. 1996.07.09 #mthist #mthistory #museum MTHistoricalSociety #MTNews

As Montana's 2021 legislative session begins, read about Montana's first female state Sen. Ellenore Bridenstine, who first served in 1945. In her own words in this #Montana the Magazine of Western History article: bit.ly/38eHkXE #mtleg #mthist MTHistoricalSociety #mtnews #history

1910 Ice Harvesting. In the days before modern refrigeration methods, ice was harvested from Polson Bay by cutting chunks and then taking it by horse-drawn sleighs to sites where it would be stored under layers of sawdust. #mthistory #montana #history buff.ly/2Lhxzin