Mountaineers catalog number: MTR.2009.8

These notes are by Lowell Skoog. This collection was donated to the Mountaineers by the estate of Marion Hessey on 8 April 2008. While compiling these notes, I applied numbers to the slide trays and boxes using blue masking tape. I refer to these numbers below. Note that the various boxes listed below have been combined into four "container boxes" labeled C1 through C4.

35mm slides in rotary (non-Kodak) trays

These trays (each in its own box) are in container boxes labeled C1 through C3. Each tray holds 100 slides and the trays are generally full. For best quality, look in the sections of the trays that I've noted. (As I reviewed the slides, I sometimes pulled out good ones and refiled them at the end of the tray.) My special interest is Washington skiing, so I've noted slides on this subject which may be of less interest to others.

 

2x2 slides in slide storage boxes

These slides measure two inches by two inches. Every box contains about 100 slides (or more). Many of the slides are slightly grainy and the focus is not razor-sharp, so the overall quality of these slides is typically no better than 35mm slides. There are exceptions.

Box 1 - "Alligator skin" box

This box contains miscellaneous photos (in summer) from all over the Washington Cascades. When the box is open like a book (with the lid on the left) all of the left row and most of the center row contain such slides. Some have a magenta cast. In addition, I've separated out other slides into the following groupings:

Box 2 - Metal box

Box 3 - Metal box

Box 4 - Metal box

Many of these slides have a significant magenta cast.

Box 5 - Cardboard box

This 7x10x3-inch cardboard box has many 2x2 slides sort of thrown inside. (I added dividers to keep the slides neat.) This box is currently in a larger box together with the miscellaneous slides in processing boxes listed below.

The box contains miscellaneous photos from throughout the Cascades, most of low quality. Some have a significant magenta cast. There are a few skiing pictures from the Muir Snowfield (1953) and Mt Baker ski area (1955). There are two photos of skiers on top of Crystal Mountain (mid-1950s), where the ski lodge now stands, with Mt Rainier in the background.

 

Miscellaneous slides in processing boxes

These are in a cardboard container box inside box C3. Most of these are 2x2 slides but a few are 35mm. Unless otherwise noted, all pictures are in summer.

Box A - Chroma Color Lab

Box B - Chroma Color Lab

Box C

Boxes D, L, N, O, Q, S, T
Misc Cascades and/or Olympics

Boxes E, F, G, H, I, J, K, R, Y
Olympics 1969-70

Box M
Lyman Lake ski

Boxes P
Mt Stuart area, Lake Louise AB

Boxes U, X
Napeequa Glacier (1) and misc

Box V - 35mm
Local (Naches Valley) scenes, developed Aug 1990

Box W - 35mm
Gold Hill cabin construction 1960 with photo of Chuck and Marion Hessey eating ice cream, also Louis Creek Basin (1)

Sheet 1 - 2x2
While scanning selected slides, I removed a few of them from glass mounts. My scanner cannot accommodate these mounts, and the mounts seem to encourage the growth of redish mold (rust?). So I placed these slides in an archival page. I've stored the page in the larger box containing the "miscellaneous slides in processing boxes."