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Arthur W. Vollmer, retired Army Major and secretary-treasurer of the Mount Olympus National Park Association, sends President Franklin D. Roosevelt a memorandum in the form of a scroll suggesting the creation of an Olympic National Monument overlapping with the present Olympic National Forest, and recommending that the two be thereafter joined as Olympic National Park.
1938-02-01
Brief narrative giving a biography of Arthur W. Vollmer and explaining how his personal papers were collected.
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Chronological itinerary of the 1913 hike by the Seattle Mountaineers through the Olympic Mountains, noting the different distances hiked, elevations attained, and camps established.
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Party of mountaineers on the banks of the Elwha River at the second crossing.
1913-08
Party of mountaineers below the Seattle glacier
1913-08-07
Mountaineers ascending a steep slope of Mount Seattle.
1913-08-07
Photograph of the Olympic mountain range, with various peaks, glaciers, and rivers visible.
1913-08-08
View of Mount Olympus from the Dodwell-Rixon pass in the Olympic Mountain range.
1913-08-08
Two lines of Mountaineers on the Upper Hoh Glacier, roughly an hour and a half away from the summit pictured in the background.
1913-08-11
View of Mount Olympus’s east peak, taken from the center peak.
1913-08-10
Bulletin of the Mountaineers society. Contains an itinerary of the 1913 outing to the Olympic Mountains and the summiting of Mount Olympus, a report on a gift of Alpine seeds that has been gifted to the society, and notices of upcoming meetings and walks sponsored by the society.
1913-09
Legislation abolishing the former Mount Olympus National Monument and establishing a newly designated Olympic National Park. A map outlining the boundaries of the park accompanies the legislation
1938-06-29
The Emergency Conservation Committee outlines twelve problems that it views of immediate importance, and provides suggestions of who to contact to help encourage action on the various matters.
1935-05
Congressman Monrad C. Wallgren has proposed legislation to establish a national park on the Olympic Peninsula, superseding and expanding the present Olympic National Monument. The Emergency Conservation Committee urges its readers to send letters in support of this measure to Congress.
1935-06
The Emergency Conservation Committee highlights the importance of the Olympic Peninsula as a habitat for wildlife species and forests, including Roosevelt Elk and Douglas fir trees. It urges the expansion of the Olympic Peninsula National Monument to encompass all the terrain originally reserved for it, prior to President Woodrow Wilson reducing its size, and hopes that this expansion may serve as a prelude to further protections and the establishment of a national park.
1934-06
An acrostic poem celebrating the various elements of Washington’s Mount Olympus and Olympic National Park.
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A thorough history chronicling the establishment of Olympic National Park, written for the fiftieth anniversary of the park. The narrative follows the early expeditions into the Olympic Mountains, the efforts by Theodore Roosevelt and his administration to preserve the area through its designation as a national monument and forest reserve, and later legislative and local efforts to establish it as a national park
1988-05-16
Susan Schultz, Olympic National Park historian, sends Larry a draft history of the events leading up to the creation of Olympic National Park. The history was created to assist Karen Schlom with preparations for events celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the park’s creation.
1988-05-16
Arno B. Cammerer, acting director of the National Park Service, answers Hamilton M. Higday’s questions regarding water power in National Parks areas by providing a brief overview of relevant legislation. Cammerer states that National Parks have tended to be established “only where natural, primitive conditions can be maintained for all time,” and that the presence of commercial use of lakes and waterways would discourage the area from being considered for inclusion in a National Park.
1926-07-19
A history of the Olympic National Forest boundary, noting the presidents involved with the creation and alteration of the boundaries of the National Forest, National Monument, and National Park.
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