Sepia toned photo of Cut Bank - The Oil Metropolis
[Postcards]
THE OLD WEST
INDUSTRY COMES WEST

Industry Comes West / Old Meets New / Refineries

Monochrome photo of a smoke stack
Front reads, "Highest Concrete Stack in the World, 353 ft. Butte, Mont." and "Ellis(?) Photo"

Reverse reads, "Keefe Bros., Publishers." No photo essay of Montana's industry would be complete without a picture of the Anaconda Copper Company smelter stack just outside of Butte, in Anaconda, Montana. No date, never sent.

Monochrome photo of tanks and stacks
Front reads, "Union Oil Refinery - Near Cut Bank and Shelby, Mont. B-908" Postmarked June 3, 1948 Reverse reads "Cecil C. Nixon 206 S. Idaho St. Butte, Montana"
Sepia toned panoram photo of Cut Bank
Front reads, "Cut Bank, Montana - The Oil Metropolis B-914" Reverse reads, "Cecil C. Nixon 206 S. Idaho St. Butte, Montana" No date, Never sent.
Sepia toned photo of a huge dark smoke spewing stack above a factory
Front reads, "Sugar Factory Billings Mont." Never sent but message dated "5/1 -09"

 

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