Renowned photographer and Montana native Earnst Peterson was a photographer with a far reaching reputation. He has been featured in National Geographic, Field and Stream, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, Colliers, The Saturday Evening Post, and Country Gentlemen. Major calendar companies sought his work, and corp. like Anaconda Company, Dow Chemical, and Montana Power Co. used his photos for advertisements and year end reports.
The Ravalli County Museum is the repository for Earnst Peterson's photograph collection and archives. We house an astounding 27,000 prints, slides, negatives and positives of his work. We honor this privilege each year with the Earnst Peterson Photograph Montana contest, which began as a way to raise funds to preserve and digitize this important historical collection.
To submit your own photo and for more information- check out our website! Show starts at 6 PM.