Looking North on Higgins Avenue. Image featured in Then and Now: Re-Photographing Missoula exhibit with the following caption: This image shows downtown Missoula’s continuity and change. The second Florence Hotel burned in 1936, to be replaced by...
View of the Rattlesnake Valley area of Missoula from Mt. Sentinel. Image featured in Then and Now: Re-Photographing Missoula exhibit with the following caption: The changes in the Rattlesnake Valley in more than 110 years are visible through...
Missoula panoramic from Waterworks Hill. Image featured in Then and Now: Re-Photographing Missoula exhibit with the following caption: Missoula over one hundred years later is larger and growing, with a strong sense of stability and change. Along...
Yogo Creek (Mont.) -- Little Belt Mountains (Mont.)
Yogo Creek above the American Sapphire Mine, Little Belt Mountains. Plate 42b. Douglas-fir predominates on old burn at left. Ponderosa pine stand on the drier southwest slope on right shows less change. Alteration of canyon bottom by road...
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station -- Bozeman (Mont.)
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station , 3 miles east of Bozemen, Montana. Plate 76b. Site of Fort Ellis is now occupied by Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. Closest slopes show a considerable change in occupancy and growth of conifers....
Across Dearborn River toward Steamboat Mountain, Montana. Plate 26b (September 7, 1981) 60 years later. Camera was moved backward to avoid Douglas-fir and limber pine which screened original view. Scene shows a marked change in tree cover on the...
Alder Gulch 2.2 miles above Virginia City, Montana. Plate 68a (1871) Fire Group 5: Cool-dry Douglas-fir. Elevation 6000 ft (1829 m). An east-northeast view up Alder Gulch 2.2 miles above Virginia City, Montana. Placer mining following discovery of...
Slope outside of old mining town of Marysville, Montana. Plate 28b (July 24, 1981) 80 years later. Camera position is somewhat lower and to the left of original position. Nonetheless, this scene shows a dramatic change following earlier...
Alder Gulch 2.2 miles above Virginia City, Montana. Plate 68a (1871) Fire Group 5: Cool-dry Douglas-fir. Elevation 6000 ft (1829 m). An east-northeast view up Alder Gulch 2.2 miles above Virginia City, Montana. Placer mining following discovery of...
Alder Gulch 2.2 miles above Virginia City, Montana. Plate 68b (July 28, 1981) 110 years later. The large Douglas-fir in foreground-left (arrow) is the same pictured in the original scene. Regeneration of Douglas-fir and Rocky Mountain juniper on...
Boothill above Virginia City, Montana. Plate 67b (July 9, 1980) 56 years later. Grading and remonumenting graves resulted in displacement of soil in foreground. Note change in location of grave markers. Near slope shows a marked increase in the...