Sierra Club members papers, 1892-2003.

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Sierra Club. Sierra Club members papers, 1892-2003.

Sierra Club members papers, 1892-2003.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85029391

A wide variety of Sierra Club leaders are represented in this collection, including staff members engaged in national environmental politics; activists of critical importance to the development of the conservation movement in the United States; and volunteer activists involved in local conservation efforts. The papers, mostly correspondence and subject files, are a rich resource not only as a record of individual conservation activities but also for the history of the Club itself. Since the Sierra Club Mills Tower office and all the records within were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire, the history of the Club during its first decades can best be traced by examining early members' papers. The most extensive group of early materials is found in the papers of William E. Colby. Documentation is also scarce for the decades from 1910 through the 1930s.

250 cartons, 6 boxes, 8 volumes, 3 oversize folders (268 linear feet)

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