Gallery
BUTTE:
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Long Live The M&M Cigar Store - Butte, Montana
Original artwork © Lisa Wareham Photography. Historic image © the BSB Archives.
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Thornton Finlen Acoma - Butte, Montana
These three iconic Butte buildings still exist today: The Thornton, the Finlen...
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Miners Union Building Blueprint - Butte, Montana
The original blueprint of the Miner’s Union is overlaid as close as...
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Newbro Drug Co - Butte, Montana
The Newbro Drug Co. sign weighed 30 tons. The warehouse installed the...
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Phoenix Building and Symons - Butte, Montana
Today’s Phoenix Building is yesteryear’s Symons Department Store. Notice how much detail...
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Butte Americana - Broadway Street - Butte, Montana
Ladies in full-brimmed hats drag children across streets by their collars so...
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Gertrude Pitkanen "Gerties Babies" Butte, Montana
In 1932 at age 53, Gertrude “The Baby Seller” decided to adopt...
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Copper Street Stroll - Butte Montana
Sometimes I wonder how legally Idaho Street can exist at the grade/steepness...
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The Blue Range - Butte, Montana
Senator Lee Mantle owned the Blue Range as a brothel in the...
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The Clark Chateau and Smithers Wedding - Butte Montana
Elva and C. Owen Smithers Jr. on their wedding day in 1955...
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The Elk - Butte Montana
The Elks Club built this giant elk statue for its Elks Convention...
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Hennessy Sign - Butte Montana
The Hennessy Building is located at the corner of Granite and Main...
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Liberty Theater - Broadway St - Butte Montana
-The Liberty Theater on Broadway Street- The Piccadilly Museum is now in...
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Walkerville and Pissers Palace - Butte Montana
This group of motorcyclists pose on Daly Street in Walkerville. At left...
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Butte Americana - Broadway Street - Butte, Montana
Ladies in full-brimmed hats drag children across streets by their collars so...
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Courthouse Elevation Sign - Butte, Montana
This is the elevation sign at the Butte Silver Bow County Courthouse....
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Butte Archives and Old Fire Department - Butte, Montana
The BSB Archives is housed in the Butte Fire Department No.1 building,...
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Hamilton Street Wagons - Butte, Montana
Hamilton Street, the obscure one-block, one-way street that most of Butte doesn’t...
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The Motherlode Theatre and Fox Theater - Butte, Montana
1923: The Masonic Bodies built the Temple Theatre Great Depression: the Masons...
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Rialto Theater Demolition from Alley - Butte, Montana
The Rialto Theater was demolished so that the First Metals Bank and...
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Rialto Theater Demolition From Park Street - Butte, Montana
The Rialto Theater was demolished so that the First Metals Bank and...
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Serbian Orthodox Church - Butte, Montana
The hand-written caption on this is "Serbian Easter Sunday - 1935" alongside...
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Take a Ride Through Time - Trolley in Butte, Montana
Come take a ride with me up and down the routes of...
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Water Company and 1923 Filming - Butte, Montana
This shows the actual 1920’s vs. the 1923 set that was filming...
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Montana Tech Arch and Hill - Butte, Montana
If this Brick House could speak, I’d imagine it would tell the...
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Marcus Daly Statue on Main St - Butte, Montana
The historical image was taken in the summer of 1939. The Marcus...
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Motherlode Theatre and YMCA - Butte, Montana
This “Time Travel” image of the present day Mother Lode Theatre blended...
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Miners Union Building Blown Up - Butte, Montana
On June 23rd, 1914, Martial law was declared in Butte after rioting...
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Marcus Daly Statue and Original Mine - Butte, Montana
There once was a Machine Shop, Shoe Repair, and Drug Store here...
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Original Mine Headframe and Dirt - Butte, Montana
Dancing the jig has replaced dancing around dynamite (if that was such...
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Idaho Street Late 1800's - Butte, Montana
Original artwork © Lisa Wareham Photography.
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Mountain Con Mine Lawn and Wood - Butte, Montana
The Mt Con Mine is now home to a beautiful lush green...
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North Western Energy Old Buildings - Butte, Montana
Original artwork © Lisa Wareham Photography. Historic image © BSB Archives.
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Immaculate Conception Church - Butte Montana
During the construction of the Immaculate Conception Church a big wind storm...
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Masonic Temple People and Car - Butte, Montana
Sometimes things really DON'T change...except hat styles...and maybe cars... But architecturally, the...
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Layers of Time on Main Street & Northwestern Energy- Butte, Montana
I often walk around Uptown Butte imagining what it must have been...
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Montana Tech Main Hall and Band - Butte, Montana
The band plays outside of Main Hall on the Montana Tech campus....
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100 Year Anniversary of the Granite - Speculator Fire Mining Disaster - Butte, Montana
Original artwork © Lisa Wareham Photography.
