Harvey Manning papers, 1946-2006.

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Harvey Manning papers, 1946-2006.

Correspondence, writings, manuscripts, minutes, reference files, reports, catalogs, publications, clippings, newsletters, ephemera, maps, and a sound recording relating to Manning's work as a writer of conservation publications and wilderness guides, his employment in Seattle with KXA and KISW radio stations (1954-1957) and as book salesman for Macmillan Company and Rinehart and Company (later Holt, Rinehart, and Winston) (1957-1960), and his role as an officer in the Mountaineers, North Cascades Conservation Council, and Friends of the Earth. His papers include writings of his wife, Betty Manning. Correspondents include Murrell Boyd, Patrick Goldsworthy, Franz Mohling, Dee Molenaar, Yvonne Prater, Bob Spring, Ira Spring, Paul Wiseman, and Sierra Club.

94.3 cubic feet (100 boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 1 vertical file)

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Friends of the earth

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David Charles Masselli, a Washington, D.C. attorney, worked with energy policy and environmental issues for a number of years. Initially as the Energy Policy Director for the Friends of the Earth, he later represented the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) and was also associated with ANTAEUS Resources Consulting. Mr. Masselli, representing environmental interests, worked with the drafting of federal legislation which would oversee the leasing and development of federa...

KISW-FM Broadcasting Station (Seattle, Wash.)

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Mountaineers (Society)

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The Mountaineers is an outdoor club, founded in 1906, to promote the discovery, conservation and documentation of the mountains, forests and watercourses of the Pacific Northwest. Henry Landes was the first president of the Mountaineers with notable founding members as Edmond S. Meany and Asahel Curtis. In 1906, Curtis, together with W. Montelius Price and Henry Landes (then UW Dean of Geology), formulated the idea to create a new Northwest mountaineering club. After much subsequent discussion, ...

Manning, Betty

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Spring, Bob, 1918-

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Goldsworthy, Patrick D. (Patrick Donovan), 1919-

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Prater, Yvonne, 1932-

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KXA Broadcasting Station (Seattle, Wash.)

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Rinehart & Company, Inc.

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Harcstark was in the College Department at Rinehart & Company, in New York City. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155865054 ...

Manning, Harvey.

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Harvey H. Manning is a Northwest conservationist who has held offices in the Mountaineers and in the North Cascades Conservation Council. He sold books for several companies, and from 1961 to 1962 he was an agent for Sierra Club books. Manning has been primarily responsible for the publishing projects of the Mountaineers, chairing the Literary Fund Committee for about ten years. He edited the "Wild Cascades" publication of the North Cascades Conservation Council and the "Not Man Apart" publicati...

Molenaar, Dee

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World-renowned mountain climber, Dee Molenaar (born 1918) is widely known for his many ascents of Mount Rainier and other peaks in Washington State and other regions, as well as for his artistic abilities as a painter, mapmaker, and author. Born to Dutch immigrant parents in Los Angeles, Molenaar's early climbs were in the Sierra Nevadas. He came to the Pacific Northwest in 1938 to climb volcanos and had begun working as a guide on Mount Rainier by 1940. Molenaar earned a Bachelor of Science deg...

Wiseman, Paul

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North Cascades Conservation Council

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The North Cascades Conservation Council (NCCC) was organized in 1957 with the mission "to protect and preserve the North Cascades' scenic, scientific, recreational, educational, and wilderness values." For the next ten years, NCCC was dedicated to its main goal, the establishment of a North Cascades National Park. It was aided by other organizations dedicated to conservation, such as the Sierra Club, the Mountaineers, and the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs. Conserva...

Mohling, Franz

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Sierra club

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"The dedication of the new Lodge at Horse Camp, Mount Shasta took place at high noon on Fourth of July 1923... The crowning event was when Miss Harwood of Los Angeles stepped forward and with much vim and enthusiasm pronounced the words: 'I christen thee Shasta Alpine Lodge (crash went the bottle of Shasta Ginger Ale on the stone doorway) and dedicate thee to all lovers of the great out-of doors...'" (Sierra Club Circular, Sept. 1, 1923, p. 1). From the description of Sierra Club mou...

Boyd, Murrell

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Spring, Ira

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Macmillan company

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The Macmillan Company was founded in 1869 as a branch in New York City of the British firm of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. of London. The company became autonomous in 1896 but the British firm maintained close ties and a strong financial interest in the company. The Macmillan Company attracted major American authors and published a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, reference works, and children's books. George Platt Brett, Jr. who became Macmillan's president in 1931, arranged for th...

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, inc.

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