The Montana Historical Society’s online collection of historical Montana newspapers is expanding. Its latest project, via the National Digital Newspaper Program, adds more than 100,000 pages from papers in Browning, Harlem, Hot Springs, and Poplar. Those papers and others, including issues of The Boulder Monitor from 1907 to 1927 as well as 19th-century area papers such as The Age, The Age Sentinel, and the Jefferson County Enterprise are now available for free via the society’s public access portal at mths.mt.gov/Research/collections/newspapers/mtnews.
And on Jan. 18, MTHS photograph archives manager Jeff Malcomson will share dozens of images in his presentation “Many Fine Views: Photographing the Montana Frontier with Haynes.” The talk, at 6:30 p.m. at the Lewis and Clark Library, features the work of photographer F. Jay Haynes, who followed the construction of the transcontinental railroad as it worked its way across the Montana Territory.
