Item: Henry O. Fortin scrapbook, 1916-1930
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Finding Aid Title: Henry O. Fortin scrapbook, 1916-1930
Finding Aid Collection Number: 2575
Date Range of Collection: 1916-1930
Creator of Materials: Fortin, Henry O.
Content Description: The Henry O. Fortin scrapbook contains dance cards, theater programs, sporting event programs, ticket stubs, "spirit" ribbons, and objects such as a beanie, pocket handkerchiefs, and a hat cord, most collected by him while he was a student at Montana State College. Several pages of signatures and brief testimonial comments from fellow USGS workers from 1926 through 1930 are included. Most of the material relates directly to Fortin's student years, although some items were collected when he was in California following his 1925 graduation. Among the student material ephemera from the Omega Beta fraternity is especially prevalent. The scrapbook also contains a few letters, including one personally signed by then U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and another by U.S. Congressman John M. Evans. A student essay based Fortin's personal experience growing up in rural Montana, "The Hunt," is pasted into the scrapbook. (A more comprehensive autobiographical essay describing Fortin's early life is held by the University of Montana Archives and Special Collections in Missoula.)
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv98275
Keywords: montana, sports, montana state college, scrapbook
Subjects: Montana State University and Perspectives on Higher Education Montana and Histories of the American West
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