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Sierra Club Mountain Registers and Records
BANC MSS 71/293 c
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Sierra Club Mountain registers and records
Creator:
Sierra Club
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 71/293 c
Physical Description:
36 linear feet
(27 cartons, 6 oversize boxes, 1 volume, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1860-2022
Abstract: Contains the Sierra Club Mountaineering Committee records, artifacts including register containers, and mountain registers
mainly from California summits of the Sierra Nevada.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English
- Finding Aid Author(s):
- Finding Aid written by Lauren Lassleben; revised by Charis Baz Takaro and Alison E. Bridger
- Date Completed:
- June 2007
- Finding Aid Encoded By:
- GenX
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf
of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Sierra Club Mountain Registers and Records, BANC MSS 71/293 c, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley
Mount Starr King registers (3 folders in Carton 17) are available on microfilm, (BANC FILM 3063).
Sierra Club Records (BANC MSS 70/103 c)
Sierra Club Members Papers, BANC MSS 71/295 c
Sierra Club National Legislative Office Records, BANC MSS 71/289 c
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund Records, BANC MSS 71/296 c
Sierra Club Foundation Records, BANC MSS 89/230 c
Sierra Club International Program Records, BANC MSS 71/290 c
Sierra Club California Legislative Office Records, BANC MSS 91/1 c
Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter Records, BANC MSS 71/291 c
Sierra Club Mother Lode Chapter Records, BANC MSS 71/292 c
Printed materials have been transferred to the book collection of The Bancroft Library. Photographs have been transferred
to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library. Videotapes/sound recordings have been transferred to the Microforms
Collection of The Bancroft Library. Maps have been transferred to the Map Collection of The Bancroft Library.
In 1970 the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club voted to place the club's historical records in The Bancroft Library. Included
in the first donation were summit registers and committee records of historical value. Registers continue to be added to the
collection by club members and other individuals as they are filled and replaced.
Future additions are expected.
Processed by Lauren Lassleben, Project Archivist, and Xiuzhi Zhou, Project Assistant in 1992; Additions by Charis Baz Takaro
in 1998, and by Alison E. Bridger from 2004-2007. Additions are processed by Bancroft Library staff as they are accessioned.
The Mountaineering Committee was formed in 1932 with Francis P. Farquhar as its chairman. Initially it planned to compile
and index a list of early ascents and summit records of the Sierra Nevada. Later the Committee was also engaged in documenting
mountain register records and adding historical notations to climbing routes.
For more information on missing registers see:
Kirby, Mark. "Paper Chase: Who's Stealing the Sierra's Historic Summit Registers?" National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Feb. 2005.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Sierra Club Mountain Registers and Records contains the Sierra Club Mountaineering Committee records, artifacts including
register containers, and mountain registers mainly from California summits of the Sierra Nevada.
This collection contains three series: Mountaineering Committee Records, Artifacts, and Mountain Registers, covering a period
of over one century. The committee records reflect the scope of its activity, the policy it set for record keeping, and vivid
descriptions of the summits, the trails, and ascents to the peaks.
The second series contains a variety of artifacts, principally a sampling of register containers and related items retained
for exhibit purposes.
The third series contains mountain registers, mainly from California summits of the Sierra Nevada, with a few from other
states and foreign countries. Many registers have weathered snow and rain and are extremely fragile.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mountaineering--California
Mountaineering--History