Collections
This page lists unique collections of papers, publications and/or photographs. Click links in ID column below for finding aids. Click a column heading to sort on that column. For artifact collections, see this page.
ID | Name | Source | Dates | Location | Contents | Summary | ||
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Amsler, Rudolf photo album | Poor, Geraldine Heckendorn (a former neighbor) | 1929-36 | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album plus 4 loose photos in an envelope | Photos mainly of winter and skiing by members of The Mountaineers in the Snoqualmie Pass area and Stampede Pass (Meany Ski Hut). Also includes Glacier Basin, Paradise, Van Trump Park, Chinook Pass, and Crystal Lake areas around Mt Rainier. A few summer photos in the Mt Terror group (North Cascades) circa 1933. At the end of the album is an envelope addressed to Amsler and delivered via "U.S. Ski Mail" from Snoqualmie Lodge to Martin (Meany Ski Hut) by "HVS and ATW" (probably Herbert V. Strandberg and Arthur T. Wilson). | |||
Anderson, Lloyd and Mary collection | Anderson, Mary via Paul Robisch and Gary Rose | 1930s-1980 | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 three-ring binder and 1 box of small photographs (0.1 cu-ft). | Three-ring binder (8.5x11 inches) contains a photocopy of Lloyd Anderson's history of Recreational Equipment, Inc. and his Climbing Notebook. Both were copyrighted in 1980. The collection also includes originals of some photos in Lloyd's Climbing Notebook. Also several small B&W prints. | |||
Baker, Mount, 1939 Avalanche photos and report | Stauder, Helen of Sports Illustrated Magazine, and John Scurlock | 1939-40 | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 printed report plus additional photos | USFS report on the 1939 Mt Baker avalanche that killed six Western Washington College students. Additional photos related to the avalanche were donated by John Scurlock. | |||
Bauer, Wolf collection | Wolf Bauer family | 1930s-60s | Archives, S1 | 1 box (14” x 16” x 7”) | Books (in German and English), photographs, clippings, historic documents, correspondence and miscellany related to climbing, skiing, and mountain rescue. Some personal photos. | |||
Davis, Dan collection | Suzan Reiley | 1960s+ | Archives, S1 | 2 three-ring binders (11”x12”x3”) plus one manila file folder | Digitized photos have been copied to our Digital Archives disks. Two 8.5x11 inch binders contain color and B&W photo prints of climbs in Cascades, Sierra Nevada, Alaska, French Alps. Some lowland scenes. There is also a manila folder of news clippings and notes. | |||
Degenhardt, Stella collection | Stella Degenhardt | 1960s-90s | Lowell Skoog’s house | 1 box (15”x13”x11”) | Materials related to Cascade Mountains, Mount St Helens, Mt McKinley, Mt Robson, Olympic Mountains, Alpine Lakes, Mt Pilchuck, 1939 American Karakorum (K2) Expedition, and more. | |||
Degenhardt, William A. collection | Stella Degenhardt (Bill's widow) | 1930s-50s | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 box (8-1/2 by 11 inches by 2 inches) | Fine biographical info plus considerable information about early Mountain Rescue Council. Bill Degenhardt was a pioneer NW climber and skier and Mountaineers president in 1952-54. | |||
Dickert, Agnes papers | Lemp, Judi (daughter of Agnes Dickert) | 1930s (mostly) | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 box (0.5 cu-ft) | Papers associated with Mountaineers climbing courses, mostly after the Wolf Bauer era (after 1936). 1946 proposal for a “Climbers and Skiers guide to the State of Washington” to be written by Fred Beckey. And more. | |||
Dickert, Othello Phillip papers | Lemp, Judi (daughter) | 1920s-1990s | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 box (0.52 cu-ft) | Of particular interest are notes associated with 1935-38 Mountaineers climbing courses as well as handbooks (several in German) that contributed to the technical foundation of the course. | |||
Dickert, Othello Phillip photographs | Lemp, Judi (daughter) | 1920s-1990s | Lowell Skoog's house | 4 boxes (1.8 cu-ft) | Photos of early climbing and skiing in Cascades, first ascents of Mt Goode and Mt Challenger, Mountaineers Snoqualmie Lodge, Mountaineer Players and outings. | |||
MTR.2019.1 | Dow, Dr. Pierre collection | Chace, Tony | 1922 | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 envelope | Two photos from 1922 first winter ascent of Mt Rainier by French alpinists with Charles Perryman, newsreel cameraman. | ||
Gilded Olympics photo album | Unknown | 1940s (circa) | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album (Some photos are loose, glue failure) | Depicts an outing in the Olympic Mountains (circa 1940s) which included participants from the Mountaineers, various Northwest towns, and Massachusetts (including Henry Hall). Herb Crisler of "Olympic Elk" fame was apparently on the trip as well. The creator of the album is identified only as "Me" in several photos. The album includes photos of the Cascades, particularly the Snoqualmie Pass region. (The album name was inspired by its fancy cover.) | |||
Hershey, Mary photo album | Kyle, Audrey (grand-daughter) | 1913 | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album | Depicts the second Mountaineer outing (1913) across the Olympic Mountains, traveling from the Elwha River to Mt Seattle, Dodwell-Rixon Pass to Mt Olympus (East Peak), ascents of Mt Barnes, Meany, and Christie, then over the Low Divide to Lake Quinault, and finally by Indian dugout canoe down the Quinault River to the ocean at Taholah. Album concludes with a few photos taken around Mt Rainier. | |||
Hessey, Charles D., Jr. papers | Hessey, Marion estate | 1960s-1980s | Donated to Yakima Valley Museum on 11/5/2020 | 1 box (about 0.5 cu-ft). | Movie scripts, conservation writings, correspondence on religion. | |||
Hessey, Charles and Marion photographs | Hessey, Marion estate | 1940s-1980s | Donated to Yakima Valley Museum on 11/5/2020 | 4 container boxes (about 6 cu-ft). | 35mm and 2x2-inch color slides. The 4 large "container" boxes contain 28 rotary slide trays, 5 slide storage boxes and over 20 slide processing boxes. | |||
Kinzebach Pic-TOUR Guide Maps | Carl Mealy | 1970s-80s | MTRs Library map case, drawer 6 | 40+ different maps | Collection of “Pic-TOUR” maps of the Washington Cascades and Olympics by Robert M Kinzebach. Generally, two copies of each map have been retained. | |||
| Lahr, Bill collection | Goodman, Don | 1930s-1990s | Archives, S1 | 1 box (18” x 14” x 12”) | Collection of newsletters from Mountaineers summer outings (1941-1965). Books, peak lists, climbing course documents, photographs. Materials related to Mountaineers Players and banquets. And much more. | ||
Ligon, John Collection | Acquired via Monty VanderBilt | 1890s-1970s | Archives, S3 | 2 Bankers Boxes (10” H x 12” W x 16” D) | Extensive collection largely devoted to Mt Rainier. Contains photo albums, boxed photos, a few glass slides and negatives, 100+ 8x10” B&W prints, photocopies of historic articles, collectible booklets, two 16mm films (Mt Hood), a few maps, and various small collectible items. | |||
Marzolf, Art and Grace photographs | Bakken, Laura (great-niece) | 1920s | Lowell Skoog's house | 61 photos | Collection of loose B&W photos. Subjects include Mountaineers old Snoqualmie Lodge (summer and winter, some snowshoers and skiers), Kitsap Cabin, Hidden Ranch, Longmire, 1921 Lyman Lake outing, Mountaineer Players ("Robin Hood" 1923), 1929 Lake O'Hara outing, Goldmeyer Hot Springs, and more. A message from Laura Bakken says that when "GKM" and "WAM" are noted, they indicate Grace and Art Marzolf, respectively. | |||
McIntyre, Bob collection | Bob McIntyre | 1990s (mostly, with some older materials) | Lowell Skoog's house | 2 boxes: | Extensive collection related to the 1999 Centennial of Mount Rainier National Park and Mount Rainier history. Includes press releases, notes and planning documents, historical booklets, maps. Collection also includes a VHS tape of ranger Bill Butler and a CD-R disk with an index of selected Mountaineer Bulletin articles from 1910s sorted by author’s name. | |||
Moore, Harvey E. photo album | Jacobsen, Chris (nephew) | 1909-1930s | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album | Album includes photos of climbing on Mt Rainier in 1909-10 via Emmons Glacier (see finding aid). Album also includes family photos, Alaska ships and volcanoes, WWI-era soldiers on Mexican border, and various travels in Washington state (not scanned). In the PDF finding aid, Harvey E. Moore is shown in uniform on the right in the group photo taken at American Lake. | |||
Mountaineer Annuals | Mountaineers | 1907-1995 | Archives, N6 | 77 boxes | Archival set of printed Mountaineer Annuals. Multiple copies of each year. (PDF copies of the annual are in our Digital Archives, catalog number MTR.2014.32.) | |||
MTR.2014.32 | Mountaineer Annuals, Digitization Masters | Mountaineers | 1920-1993/94 | Archives, on top of C3NT | 5 boxes | Unbound set of Mountaineer Annuals used for digitization in 2014-15. (Albums prior to 1920 were digitized by Google, so we didn't need to sacrifice paper annuals for those years.) | ||
Mountaineer Annual Photo Plates | Mountaineers | 1907-1960s | Archives, N2 | 9 boxes | Selected photo printing plates from Mountaineer Annuals. | |||
Mountaineer Bulletins | Mountaineers | 1911-2010 | Archives, S2 | 13 boxes | Archival set of Mountaineer Bulletins. Multiple copies of each year. | |||
Mountaineers Film Collection | Mountaineers | 1922-1970s | UW Special Collections | 400+ films | Movies from early Mountaineer outings, instructional films, and films produced by Charles and Marion Hessey, Charles Perryman, Bob and Ira Spring, and Dwight Watson. Donated to UW Special Collections in October 2011. | |||
Mountaineers Lantern Slides | Mountaineers | 1900s-1920s | Lowell Skoog's house | 4 boxes (some with smaller boxes inside) | Photos of Mountaineer outings to Glacier Peak (1910), Mt Rainier (1909), Mt Stuart (1914), plus local outings and miscellany. Also photos of 1929 publicity trip to Glacier Peak area with F.W. Cleator of the USFS. Photographers include Asahel Curtis, J. Boyd Ellis, and Jacobs. Some slides in color. | |||
Mountaineer Miscellaneous Publications | Mountaineers | Various | Archives | TBD | Miscellaneous publications found while organizing the archives storage room. | |||
Mueller, Lynda photo album | Woods, David L. (son) | 1925-1926 | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album | Collection of photographs, documents and memorabilia from 1925 Mountaineers summer outing in the Alpine Lakes region and 1926 outing in the Olympic Mountains. | |||
Pelto, Mauri Glacier Photo Collection (2011) | Pelto, Mauri | 1900-1950s (circa) | Lowell Skoog's house | 6"x9"x3" box containing negatives and prints | Collection of 150+ historic negatives and a few dozen small prints of glaciers in the Washington Cascades. The collection was given by David Hirst and Austin Post of USGS to Mauri Pelto, director of the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project. Pelto later donated the collection to the Mountaineer Archives. Photographers include: A.H. Post, Asahel Curtis, Austin Post, Barney Zell, Richard Hubley, J.B. Richardson, Lage Wernstedt and more. See MTR.2018.6 photo list. | |||
Pollock, John papers | Clark, Marcia (widow) | 1970s-90s | Lowell Skoog's house | 10"x13" envelope | Notes related to publishing Fred Beckey's Cascade Alpine Guide in the 1970s. Other notes about Beckey. | |||
MTR.2025.2 | Simac, John photos | Booker, Rian (grandson) | 1950s-60s | Lowell Skoog’s house | 1 slide carousel and one 5” x 5” x 3.5” box | 35mm slides of Mountain Rescue activities in 1950s-60s. (In his email outreach, Rian said the slides depict building Camp Schurman on Mt Rainier, but that’s not accurate. There are a few images of Camp Schurman vicinity, but most of the pictures are from mountain rescue missions.) | ||
Simmons, Charles L. photo album | Newton, Shirley (daughter) | 1920-1923 | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album | Photos of Mt Rainier, Mountaineers Snoqualmie Lodge (1920), Olympic Mountains outing (1920), Mt Baker climb, Glacier Peak and Lyman Lake region (1921), Mt Adams and Mt St Helens (1922), and Garibaldi Lake B.C. (1923). Album includes hand-written notes by Shirley Newton naming many people and locations. (Page numbers in the notes are one page too high after p. 31.) | |||
Spring, Bob and Ira B&W photographs | Spring, John and Vicky (children) | 1930s-80s+ | UW Special Collections | Photos held and managed by Ira Spring until 2003. Donated by the Spring family to UW Special Collections on June 27, 2013. Copyright shall be retained by the Spring family for 10 years, during which time usage permission can be granted only by the Springs or by Lowell Skoog. Non-exclusive, royalty-free use of photographs will be granted to The Mountaineers upon written request to UW Libraries. (Unofficial copy of deed of gift here.) | ||||
Swanson, Bob photo album | Swanson, Bob | 1910s | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album | Album was purchased by Bob Swanson many years ago. Album depicts President Wilson and battleships on Puget Sound, the Ballard Locks, outings to Seabeck, UW, and Woodland Park in Seattle, Snoqualmie Pass, the Green River Gorge, and a 1917 outing to Mt Rainier that climbed as high as Camp Muir. The identity of the album creator is unknown. | |||
Triol, Edward K. photo album | Triol, Terry, grandson | 1911 | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album | Album documents the 1911 Mountaineer summer outing which, in 27 days, traveled on foot from Mt Rainier through the Goat Rocks to Mt Adams (climbed it) and thence to the Columbia River, from which they approached Mt Hood (climbed it) and then traveled by steamboat to Vancouver, finally returning to Seattle. Review of the 1911 Mountaineer annual indicates that at least some of the photos in the album were not taken by Edward K. Triol. It's not known if he took any of the photos. | |||
UW/USGS Glacier Photos | Sarah Doherty | 1960s | Archives, S1 | 17 B&W prints, sized 8x10” and 10x10” (stored in a large manila envelope) | B&W photos of glaciers in Alaska, British Columbia, and Ellesmere Island. Most but not all photos have enough written information to identify the location. That information has been included in each scanned filename. | |||
Venema, Harry photo album | Venema, Donn, grandson | 1908 | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album | Album documents a July 1908 climb of Mt Rainier by a YMCA group including Harry Venema. The climb, and grandson Donn Venema's experience climbing Rainier 100 years later, were described in a 2008 Northwest Mountaineering Journal article. The album also contains newspaper clippings from the 1950s and 1960s. | |||
Washington State Highways, pre-WW2 snow removal album | Washington State Ski and Snowboard museum (WSSSM) | 1930s | Lowell Skoog's house | 1 photo album | Album was donated to WSSSM by an anonymous visitor in January 2016. The museum transferred the album to the Mountaineers for archival. Album contains scenes of snow removal work on Washington highways in the 1930s. Highways include SR-1 (Mt Baker), SR-2 (Snoqualmie Pass), SR-5 (Cayuse/Chinook Pass) and SR-15 (Stevens Pass). | |||
Watson, R. Duke photographs | Watson, R. Duke | 1930s-1990s | Lowell Skoog's house | 5 boxes, a notebook of slides, plus several journals (2.9 cu-ft). | Photos of mountain troop activities during WWII as well as Duke's later skiing and mountaineering in Washington and Canada. Duke's canoeing photos and movies have been donated to UW Special Collections. | |||
Watson, Dwight shoeboxes | Watson, Dwight | 1920s-1996 | UW Special Collections | 4 boxes plus 2 folders (2.5 cu-ft). | Many fine photographs plus extensive notes about Watson's photos, movies, and trips. (This collection was donated by The Mountaineers to UW Special Collections in October 2010.) | |||
Watson, Dwight South Cascade Glacier photos | Scurlock, John | 1938-39 | Original prints were donated to UW Special Collections with the Dwight Watson "shoebox" collection. For scans, see Digital Archives. | 57 B&W photographs | Photos taken by Dwight Watson in the vicinity of the South Cascade Glacier during the summers of 1938 and 1939. The photos were originally given by Watson to Austin Post (of USGS). Post later gave the photos to John Scurlock. In 2005, Scurlock scanned all the photos at 360 dpi and gave the photos and scans to Lowell Skoog.
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Women Climbers Northwest (WCN) collection | Subak, Stephanie and Colleen Hinton | 1988-2007 | Archives, S1 |