UW Special Collections
- Lowell Skoog
- Monty VanderBilt
Owned by Lowell Skoog
The Mountaineers have an agreement with the University of Washington (UW) in which the club transfers archival materials to the UW Library on an ongoing basis. This page documents some of the materials transferred in the past, with links (when available) to UW collection records. This page also lists materials donated to the UW by individual Mountaineers members, independent of the club.
THIS LISTING IS NOT COMPLETE. Researchers are encouraged to visit the UW Special Collections website and contact UW Library staff for a more complete search of Mountaineers-related materials. Try entering "mountaineer" in the UW Collection Guides search page. Also, see the following printed publication for older UW collections and make sure to browse its subsection, "North Cascades History Project Files."
Priestly, Marilyn (compiler), Comprehensive Guide to the Manuscripts Collection and to the Person Papers in the University Archives, University of Washington Libraries, 1980.
The Mountaineers - Club Records | |||
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| UW Coll. No. | Name | Description | Notes |
| 2885 | Administrative Division | Accident reports, policy manuals, operations manuals, correspondence, minutes, memoranda, committee files, financial records, real estate records, planning conferences, other records related to the administration of the club. | - |
| 2215 | Alpine Scramblers Committee | Climb data sheets, reports of outings, sign-up sheets, correspondence, minutes, lists. | - |
| 2013 | Summit Registers | Archive of summit register materials turned in by climbers | - |
| 2886 | Conservation Division | Correspondence, minutes, reports, subject files, financial records, writings, news releases, ephemera, clippings, subject files concerning environmental issues. | - |
| 5038 | History Committee | Oral history tape recordings. | - |
| 2887 | Indoor Division | Correspondence, reports, ephemera. | - |
| 5013 | Juniors | Teenagers group, photos. | - |
| 1584 | Literary Fund Committee | Drafts, manuscripts, correspondence, drawings, photographs, correspondence, galley proofs, page proofs, financial records, surveys, notes, ephemera. Tape-recorded interview with L.D. Lindsley. | - |
| 2896 | Mountaineers Books | Mountaineer Books was formerly called the Literary Fund Committee; changed to Mountaineer Books in 1978. Historical and organizational material, project/planning files, correspondence, minutes, financial records, stock inventories, lists, subject files. | - |
| 3980 | Olympia Branch | Special 25th Anniversary edition of the Olympia Branch newsletter, September 5, 1988 gives history of the branch and other general information. | - |
| 1838 | Climbing Committee | Photographs, reports, correspondence, training materials for climbing course, minutes, climb data sheets, ephemera, maps and air photographs apparently used for planning climbing outings. | - |
| 3494 | Outings Coordinating Committee | The Outings Committee was formed in 1973 as the Foreign Outings Committee with Don Dooley as chair. Memoranda, reports, policy statements, minutes, itineraries. Also, journals of annual summer outings. | - |
| 2987 | President Records | Files of selected presidents. | - |
| 2888 | Properties Division | Correspondence, minutes, financial records, subject files. | - |
| 2889 | Publication Division | Material deals with all aspects of Mountaineers publishing, especially the Annual and Roster. Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, legal documents, publications, notes. | - |
| 3710 | Safety Committee | Pamphlet: Mountaineering first aid, 1959. Excerpt from Mountaineering; Freedom of the Hills. | - |
| 3272 | Ski Mountaineering Committee | Correspondence, ca. 1935-1963; course manuals, 1942, 1949; trip guide 1939, trip elevation profile, undated. | - |
| 3642 | Trails Advisory Committee | Correspondence, mailings, reports, maps, clippings, ephemera. Subject series including conditioning and physical fitness, de facto wilderness, RARE II (Roadless Area Review and Evaluation II), Tiger Mountain and Issaquah Alps, more. | - |
| 3501 | Trail Trips Committee | Trip reports include itinerary, sketch map, notes regarding any unusual features of terrain, food taken, times and expenses, list of participants, followed by a report of how the trip turned out. | - |
| 2982 | Trustees Board Records | Board minutes, organizational features, correspondence, financial records, actions items, subject series. | - |
Photographs donated by The Mountaineers or their members | ||||
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| UW Coll. No. | Name | Digital Coll. | Description | Notes |
| 631 | George H. Braas | - | Photographs of Mountaineers excursions to Mt. Rainier, including scenes of valleys and waterfalls of the Nisqually and Paradise Rivers, the Cowlitz and Nisqually Glaciers, the Tatoosh Mountains, Mt. Adams, and groups of climbers. The collection was transferred from The Mountaineers Photograph Album Collection, No. 341, in 2003. | Donated to UW by The Mountaineers. |
| 407 | Asahel Curtis lantern slides | - | Glass lantern slides from the studio of Asahel Curtis (many hand colored). Images include the lumber industry, Mount Rainier National Park, ice caves, crevasses, Paradise Lodge, hiking, mountaineering, skiing (including women in summer outfits/bathing suits on skiis), daffodil fields, wildflowers, Olympic Mountains, Cascade Mountains, and unidentified residences. | - |
| 482 | Asahel Curtis Photo Co. photographs | Yes | The Asahel Curtis Photo Co. of Seattle produced this series of prints for purchase by the University of Washington library in 1942. Most of them were taken by Asahel Curtis or his staff in the period 1901-1940. These "representative" photographs were selected by the studio for their wide regional historic interest and their visual appeal. On occasion, Curtis purchased the work of other photographers, and he also copied historical photographs taken by others; some of these other photographers are also represented in this series. | - |
| 218 | Asahel Curtis | - | One oversize photo of Mt Rainier. | - |
| 489 | Ralph Leber | - | Leber family mountaineering and leisure activities, "Kitsap cabin," outings circa 1918 (probably in the Snoqualmie area), and Snoqualmie Mountaineers Lodge. | - |
| 711 | Carsten Lien | - | The collection contains images related to the political history, environmental protection, and public management of Olympic National Park and the Olympic National Forest. Special emphasis is placed on development activities, logging operations, and environmental activism in the 1940s and 1950s. | - |
| 548 | Lawrence D. Lindsley | Yes | Over 5000 images by charter member of The Mountaineers. | - |
| 132 | Edmond S. Meany | - | Collection includes 5 albums depicting Washington, British Columbia and Alaska native peoples and their environment. Taken by Meany in 1902-1905. 1 album containing photographs of the Cascades. Loose photographs are portraits Edmond Meany and of family members and friends. | - |
| 341 | Mountaineers Photograph Album Collection | Yes | 126 albums (16298 prints) of The Mountaineers official annual outings and hikes/climbs by members from 1907-1951 showing camping and climbing activities, skiing and snowshoeing, equipment, portraits of members, train stations and transportation, pack horses, etc. | Donated to UW by The Mountaineers. |
| TBD | Mountaineers Moving Image Collection | Yes | 400+ movies from early Mountaineer outings, instructional films, and films produced by Charles and Marion Hessey, Charles Perryman, Bob and Ira Spring, and Dwight Watson. | TBD: Need finding aid. |
| 399 | Hermann Ulrichs | - | Ulrich's bequest includes 81 photographs of the North Cascades in the 1920s-1930s, when he was a pioneer in the exploration of the area and in opening it to climbers and hikers. See also Ulrich's photographs in the Dwight Watson Collection. | - |
| 165 | Dwight Watson | Yes | Primarily photographs by Watson of rambles and backcountry ski trips in Cascades and other western mountains, ca. 1924-1960. | - |
Papers donated by Mountaineers members | |||
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| UW Coll. No. | Name | Description | Notes |
| 0129 | Edward W. Allen | Mountaineers honorary member, influential in state parks. | - |
| 2648 | Lloyd Anderson | Climber, founder of Recreational Equipment Co-op. See also REI history papers. | - |
| 1669 | Wolf G. Bauer | Mountaineers honorary member, skier, climber, mountain rescue pioneer, kayaker, conservationist. | - |
| 1581 | Fred W. Beckey | Mountaineers honorary member, climber, historian and author. | - |
| 3979 | Ellen Brooker | Active member of Mountaineers; papers include card file of summit registers. | - |
| 2903 | Richard Brooks | Conservationist. | - |
| TBD | Irving M. Clark | Conservationist. | TBD: Need finding aid. |
| 2060 | Lois Crisler | Writer, wife of filmmaker Herb Crisler. | - |
| 4058 | Asahel Curtis | Mountaineers charter member, photographer, regional booster. | - |
| 3592 | Ome Daiber | Climber, equipment inventor, mountain rescue pioneer. | - |
| 5372 | William A. Degenhardt | Mountaineers president, climber and skier | - |
| TBD | Polly Dyer | Climber, conservationist. | TBD: Need finding aid. |
| 1776 | Brock Evans | Conservationist and civic leader. | - |
| 3043 | Jesse Epstein | Mountaineers honorary member, president. | - |
| 4193 | Patrick D. Goldsworthy | Mountaineers honorary member, conservationist. | - |
| 2295 | Don Gordon | Climber. | - |
| 4008 | Harry Hagen | Climbing committee chairman, ski mountaineer. | - |
| 1898 | Emily Haig | Mountaineers honorary member, conservationist. | - |
| 5031 | William Halliday | Mountaineers conservation division chairman. | - |
| 3488 | Joseph T. Hazard | Author. | - |
| 2265 | Charles Hazlehurst | Mountaineers member | - |
| 4263 | Victor Josendal | Mountaineers vice president, climbing and safety committee chairman. | - |
| 5527 | Carsten Lien | Mountaineers president, conservationist, author. | - |
| 2196 | David Lind | Climber. | - |
| 2179 | Lawrence D. Lindsley | Mountaineers charter member, photographer. | - |
| 3500 | Jane MacGowan | Climber. | - |
| 2097 | Harvey Manning | Author and conservationist. | - |
| TBD | Louise B. Marshall | Conservationist, author, editor. | TBD: Need finding aid. |
| 4325 | Grant McConnell | Conservationist, author. | - |
| 0106 | Edmond S. Meany | Mountaineers president, historian, author. | - |
| 4578 | Dee Molenaar | Mountaineers honorary member, artist, historian, author. | - |
| 0100 | Harry Myers | Climber, collector of documentation of early Mt Rainier ascents. | - |
| 4035 | Verna Ness | Mountaineers employee and student of management. | - |
| 2161 | Art Winder, et al | Climbers Don Blair, Forest Farr, Norval Grigg, James Martin, Herbert Strandberg and Art Winder talk with Harry Majors and Karyl Winn in 1973. | - |
| 3818 | John Osseward | Mountaineers honorary member, conservationist. | - |
| TBD | Milnor Roberts | Mountaineers charter member, skier. | TBD: Need finding aid. |
| 2181 | John Roper | Climber. | - |
| 2300 | Otto Trott | Climber, mountain rescue pioneer. | - |
| 2138 | Hermann Ulrichs | Climber. | - |
| 5223 | Harriet Walker | Mountaineer thespian. | - |
| TBD | John Warth | Conservationist, author. | TBD: Need finding aid. |
| 2170 | Dwight Watson | Skier, mountaineer, photographer. | - |
| 1944 | Norman Winn | Mountaineers president, climber, conservation committee chairman. | - |
| 1991 | Robert L. Wood | Author. | - |
| 3773 | Philip Zalesky | Climber, conservationist. | - |