Photo, Print, Drawing Image 19 of Milk River Wagon Train, fifth day, Labor Day parade, Malta, Montana

About this Item

About this Item

Title

  • Milk River Wagon Train, fifth day, Labor Day parade, Malta, Montana

Names

  • Young, Kay, 1931- (Collector)
  • Crummett, Michael, 1948- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Malta, Montana, September 3, 1979

Headings

  • -  Wagons
  • -  Roadside architecture
  • -  Wagon trains
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Montana -- Malta

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Index data: Image numbers, descriptions: with the Milk River Wagon Train, fifth day ride: 1-2, moving from dirt trails to highway pavement, the wagon train returns to Malta on Labor Day for a parade through town; 3-5, people from town climb into the wagons in order to ride in the parade; 6-7, veterinarian Jim and Gaelen Curtis stop momentarily in front of Henry and Vi Compton's place to salute this well known, elderly couple in Malta; 8, the wagon train moves past onlookers on a street in Malta; 9-12, the Myers/Truax sheepwagon (painted red) passing through a Malta intersection; 13-14, American flags line the route of the Labor Day parade and the Milk River Wagon Train as it returns to the streets of Malta; 15-16, fieldworker Kay Young riding with Howard Smith and his wagon; 17, Jack McKuen driving the polka dot special the last mile for another year; 18-19, the Jacobsen wagon and Clydesdales; 20, Steve Schwartz running and carrying a girl, the photographer writes, "trying to catch the Milk River Wagon Train."

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/005: MT9-MC51

Source Collection

  • Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Young, Kay, and Michael Crummett. Milk River Wagon Train, fifth day, Labor Day parade, Malta, Montana. United States Montana Malta, 1979. Malta, Montana, September 3. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_mc51/.

APA citation style:

Young, K. & Crummett, M. (1979) Milk River Wagon Train, fifth day, Labor Day parade, Malta, Montana. United States Montana Malta, 1979. Malta, Montana, September 3. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_mc51/.

MLA citation style:

Young, Kay, and Michael Crummett. Milk River Wagon Train, fifth day, Labor Day parade, Malta, Montana. Malta, Montana, September 3. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_mc51/>.