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Preliminary Guide to the Dee
Molenaar Papers
circa
1930-2007
| Creator:
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Molenaar,
Dee
, creator | | Title:
| Dee Molenaar papers | | Date Span:
| circa
1930-2007 | | Quantity:
| 1.56 cubic feet (4 boxes and 1 oversize folder) | | Manuscript Collection No.:
| 4578 | | Languages:
| Collection materials are in
English. |
Biographical Note
Born to Dutch immigrant parents, Dee Molenaar (1918-) was born and
raised in Los Angeles. His early climbs were in the Sierra Nevadas. As a young
man in 1938, Molenaar came to the Pacific Northwest to climb its volcanos. He
began guiding tours on Mt. Rainier in 1940. Molenaar earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology with a minor
in Art from the University of Washington in 1950. After graduation he worked as
a field assistant to geololgy professor Peter Misch. During Molenaar's career
as a geologist, he was employed by Phillips Petroleum Company, Washington
Department of Conservation, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Molenaar has also
used his education as a geologist to complement his artistic abilities in
creating oil and watercolor paintings of mountain and desert landscapes. Molenaar climbed peaks through the western United States, Canda,
Alaska, the Alps, Himalayas, New Zealand, and Antarctica. His expeditions
included the Harvard Mountaineering Committee ascent of Mount St. Elias in
1946, which was the second ascent of the mountain and the first American summit
of the peak; the 1953 American expedition to K2; Mount McKinley (Denali) in
1960; Mount Kennedy in 1965; and multiple peaks in the Alps in 1973.
The Challenge of Rainier, Molenaar's most
widely-known publication, was based in part upon his experience serving as a
summit guide (1940-41 and 1947) and National Parks Service Ranger (1950-1952)
on Mount Rainier. Scope and ContentDiaries, correspondence, maps, photographs, questionnaires, and a
manuscript. See scope and content information of individual accessions below
for details. ArrangementArranged in two accessions:
- Accession No. 4587-001, Dee Molenaar Correspondence, circa
1930-1995
- Accession No. 4587-002, Dee Molenaar Papers, circa
1930-2007
Restrictions on UsePlease see use restriction information of individual accessions
below. Restrictions on AccessOpen to all users. Processing InfoVisual materials that originally accompanied this material were
separated into a distinct Visual Materials Collection. For more information,
contact Special Collections.
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| | Accession No. 4578-001 | | | Dee Molenaar correspondence, circa 1930-1995 (Bulk: 1956-1971) | | .21 cubic feet (1 box) | | | Scope and Content | | Correspondence and questionnaires relating to Molenaar's research
on the history of mountaineering on Mt. Rainier, circa 1930-1987 (bulk
1956-1971); correspondence relating to the publicaton of Molenaar's book
The Challenge of Rainier, 1966-1995
(bulk 1966-1970). | | Restrictions on Use | | Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of
Washington Libraries. | | Acquisition Info | | Source: Dee Molenaar, 7/30/1996. |
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| | Accession No. 4578-002 | | | Dee Molenaar papers, circa 1930-2007 | | 1.35 cubic feet (3 boxes) | | | Arrangement | Arranged in four series:
- Diaries, 1930-2000
- Correspondence, 1940-1995
- Photographs, 1954 and circa 1970-1986
- Writings, Maps and Inventory, circa 1985-2007
| | Scope and Content | | Twelve of Molenaaar's climbing diaries ("Fuhrerbuchs"),
correspondence, published landform-relief maps, black and white negatives of
mountains and expeditions, and unpublished manuscript
"High and Wide with Sketchpad".
Prominent correspondents include: Wolf Bauer, Fred Beckey, Charlie Bell, Chris
Bonington, Nicholas Clinch, Norman Dyhrenfurth, Francis Farquhar, Sir Edmund
Hillary, Charles Houston, Robert Kennedy, Peter Misch, Noel Odell, Clark
Schurman, Austin Post, James Ramsey Ullman, Willi Unsoeld, Ed Viesturs, Jim
Whittaker, Jim Wickwire, and many others. | | Restrictions on Use | | Some restrictions exist on copying, quotation or publication.
Contact Special Collections for details. | | Acquisition Info | | Source: Dee Molenaar, March and April 2010. | | Processing Info | | Processed by Deborah Hamilton; processing completed in 2010. | | Separated Material | | Molenaar's copy of
The Challenge of Rainier, containing
over 400 signatures from local and international climbers, was removed for
separate cataloging. | | Box | Date
| | 1 | Diaries | 1930-2000 | | Arrangement:
Arranged chronologically. | |
"Fuhrerbuch": Mountaineering
and Climbing Record of Dee Molenaar | 1930-1978 | | Mt. St. Elias | 1946 | | Geology 200 Field Course (North Cascades) of Dee
Molenaar | 1950 | | K2 | 1953 | | Helsinki 1983, The Alps 1973, Austria 1992, Diary of
Dee Molenaar of trip with "K"... | 1973, 1983, 1992 | | Climbing Notes and Other Miscellaneous
Observations | 1979-1992 | | Record of Trip to New Zealand and Antarctica November
21st-December 13th 1980 | 1980 | | Record of Visit to Juneau Icefield | 1985 | | Record of Trip to Kala Patar Mt. Everest Region Nepal
via Mountain Travel | 1990 | | Diary of Alaska Trip | 1991 | | Fuhrerbuch III | 1992-2000 | | Trip to Peru and Machu Picchu | 1998 | | Correspondence | 1940-1995 | | Arrangement:
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent. | | Scope and Content:
Correspondents include:
| Allan, Stuart | | Allen, John Eliot | | Ayres, Harry | | Bates, Robert | | Bauer, Wolf | | Beach, Sharon | | Beckey, Fred | | Bedayn, Raffi | | Bell, Charlie | | Boehm, Julius | | Bonington, Chris | | Boyer, Steve | | Bjornstad, Eric | | Bloch, Gerry | | Brandt, Rex | | Brigham, Leon | | Brockman, C. Frank | | Brower, Anne | | Brower, David | | Brown, Bert | | Brown, Dorris | | Bryne, Peter | | Bryson, Ted and Kristel | | Bueler, William | | Bunning, Bonnie | | Burchell, Betty | | Butler, Bill | | Campbell, Arnie and Betty | | Carlson, Virgil and Lee | | Carpenter, Philip | | Cedzo, Karen | | Chamberlain, James E. | | Chinese Mountaineering Association | | Clark, Amanda | | Clinch, Nicholas B. | | Colson, Charles | | Cook, Gordon | | Corbet, Barry | | Craig, Robert W. | | Crenshaw, Jene | | Cross, Tom | | Cunningham, H.B. | | Cuno, John | | Dailey, Diana | | Dalrymple, Paul | | Dasler, Jon | | Day, John | | DeShazo, Donna | | Desio, Ardito | | Diemburger, Kurt | | Dodson, Robert | | Dunaway, Bil | | Dunne, Tom | | Dyhrenfurth, Norman | | Eastwood, Harland | | Engerman, Jeanne | | Engles, Harold | | Enzenbacker, Debbie | | Evans, Daniel | | Exum, Glenn | | Fairchild, Wilma | | Farquhar, Francis | | Farquhar, Margery | | Feth, Jack | | Fitzsimmons, Matt | | Ford, Art | | Fryxell, Jayx and Regina | | Gann, Ernest K. | | Geddes, Jack and Peggy | | Goforth, Nancey | | Gorton, Slade | | Grakovich, Valentin | | Greathouse, Mrs. Walser S. | | Haack, Wayne P. | | Haines, Aubrey | | Haglund, Ivar | | Hahn, Fred | | Hall, Henry S., Jr. | | Hall, Jim Lydia | | Hall, William | | Hardy, Janet and Douglas | | Harlin, John, III | | Harman, Evelyn | | Harris, Stephen | | Hawkins, Helene and Wayne | | Henderson, Kenneth | | Heuston, Paul | | Hicks, Floyd | | Hill, Mary | | Hillary, Edmund (Sir) | | Horner, Stephen | | Houston, Charles | | Howkins, Heidi | | Hunt, John (Sir) | | Jenkins, Peter | | Johnson, Burt | | Jones, A.G.E. | | Jurak, Josef | | Kauffman, Andrew J., II | | Kendall, Henry | | Kennedy, Ethel | | Kennedy, Robert F. | | King, Magda | | Kingsbury, Dwight | | Koopman, Jane | | Langmuir, Evelyn | | Lawson, Elliot | | Lee, Bob | | Leonard, Richard | | Lind, Dave | | Lloyd, Darvel | | Loganathan, A. | | Magnuson, Warren | | Mahre, Dave | | Maki, Junichi | | Mayer, LaVonne | | McCarthy, Jim | | McCoy, Keith | | McWhirter, Norris D. | | Merlino, Maxine | | Miller, Maynard | | Misch, Hanna | | Misch, Niki | | Misch, Peter | | Molenaar, Cornelius “K” | | Moldenhauer, Hans | | Monteath, Colin | | Moore, Terris | | Morgan, Murray | | Morrissey, James D. | | Moulton, Terry | | Munday, Phyl lis | | Nagler, Karl | | Nilsson, Erwin “Biff” | | Odell, Noel | | Ormes, Robert | | Partridge, Betsy | | Partridge, E.E. | | Patterson, Marijke | | Patterson, Pat and Mary | | Pauli, John | | Peck, Dallas | | Phillips, Bill and Lorraine | | Post, Austin | | Pyle, Robert | | Raible, Steve | | Ray, Dixy Lee | | Roberts, Elliott | | Roskelley, John | | Rowell, Galen | | Rutter, John | | Sanford, Scott | | Sceva, Paul | | Scheer, Irena | | Schmoe, Floyd | | Schurman, Clark | | Shipton, Eric | | Shorrock, Gertrude | | Siple, Ruth | | Siri, William | | Smith, Milton | | Standaert, Carol | | Steffens, Brandon | | Stockton, David | | Terai, Kei | | Thaller, Victor | | Thomas, Lowell Jr. | | Tobin, Daniel | | Town, Stephen W. | | Trenker, Luis | | Tsuda, Shuji | | Ullman, James Ramsey | | Ullman, Mrs. James Ramsey | | Unsoeld, Jolene | | Unsoeld, Willi | | Valsing, Ruth | | Van Diver, Brad | | Van Kleeck, Joyce (sp?) | | Vermeulen, Jim | | Viesturs, Ed | | Viola, Herman | | Vincent, Bronwyn | | Wallin, Stu | | Warburton, Mike | | Warmerdam, C. A. “Dutch” | | Washburn, Bradford | | Watanabe, Mas and Hisa | | Watson, Adam | | Weide, Bruce | | Welk, Lawrence | | Whitney, Tom | | Whittaker, James | | Wickwire, Jim | | Wiessner, Fritz H. | | Wiessner, Muriel | | Willey, Edith Maring | | Wilts, Ellen | | Winn, Karyl | | Witte, Joe | | Wenying, Wang | | Wharton, Robert | | Woodward, Eddy and Mel | | Woodward, E.J. | | Woodworth, John | | Wren, Chris | | Wroblewski, Lech | | Young, Jack | | Zelley, Mibs | | Zimmerman, T. C. Price |
| | 2/1 | Correspondence (A-C) | 1965-1995 | | 2/2 | Correspondence (D-G) | 1956-1993 | | 2/3 | Correspondence (H-K) | 1963-1991 | | 2/4 | Correspondence (L-O) | 1940-1994 | | 2/5 | Correspondence (P-S) | 1954-1993 | | 2/6 | Correspondence (T-V) | 1970-1994 | | 2/7 | Correspondence (W-Z) | 1956-1994 | | 2/8 | Correspondence- Unknown correspondent | 1957-1991 | | 2/9 | Correspondence-Additional Materials | Undated | | 2/10 | Expedition Postcards- Signed | 1978, 1986 | | Photographs | 1954, circa
1970-1986 | | 2/11 | Photographs- Portraits of Dee | 1986, undated | | 2/12 | Photograph- Dee Molenaar and Sir Edmund
Hillary | 1954 | | 2/13 | Photographs- Head Shots | circa 1970s-1980s | | Scope and Content:
Head shots include:
| Boyd, Dan | | Dunn, George | | Edwards, Jason | | Ershler, Phil | | Houston, Charles S. | | Gombu, Nawang | | Hoey, Marty | | Horiskey, Joe | | Isaacs, Gary | | Lynch, Jerry | | Nielson, Larry | | Politz, Andy | | Roberts, Tracy | | Simonson, Eric | | Smolich, John | | Van Hoy, Craig | | Whittaker, Lou | | Whittaker, Peter |
| | Writings, Maps, and Inventory | circa
1985-2007 | | 3/1 | Inventory-Library | circa 2007 | | 3/2 | Maps-published in original wrappers | circa 1985-2002 | |
| Mapcase | | Oversize folder | Maps | 1987-1999 | |
| Box/Folder | | 3/3 | Writings-"High and Wide with Sketch Pad" | circa 2007 | | 3/4 | Writings-"Miscellaneous Tourism Travels" | circa 2005 |
| Subject Terms | | Personal Names: | | Bauer, Wolf G.--Correspondence. | | Beckey, Fred W., 1921- --Correspondence. | | Bonington, Chris--Correspondence. | | Clinch, Nicholas, 1930- --Correspondence. | | Dyhrenfurth, Norman G.--Correspondence. | | Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-1974--Correspondence. | | Haglund, Ivar, 1905---Correspondence. | | Hillary, Edmund, 1919-2008--Correspondence. | | Houston, Charles S.--Correspondence. | | Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968--Correspondence. | | Misch, Peter, 1909-1987--Correspondence. | | Molenaar, Dee--Archives. | | Odell, N. E. (Noel Ewart), 1890-1987. | | Post, Austin--Correspondence. | | Schmoe, F. W. (Floyd Wilfred), 1895-2001--Correspondence. | | Schurman, Clark--Correspondence. | | Ullman, James Ramsey, 1907-1971--Correspondence. | | Unsoeld, William Francis, 1926- orrespondence. | | Viesturs, Ed--Correspondence. | | Whittaker, Jim, 1929- --Correspondence. | | Wickwire, Jim, 1940- | | Subjects: | | Cartographers--Washington (State)--Archives. | | Geologists--Washington (State)--Archives. | | Mountaineering. | | Mountaineers--Washington (State)--Archives. | | Painters--Washington (State)--Archives. | | Genre Headings: | | Correspondence. | | Diaries. | | Manuscripts for publication. | | Maps. | | Photographs. | | Questionnaires. |
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