Archives West Finding Aid
Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
-
Biographical Note
- Historical Background
- Content Description
- Use of the Collection
- Administrative Information
-
Detailed Description of the Collection
- Sitka Spruce in Olympic National Park
- Lookouts and Historic Structures in and around Olympic National Park
- Bogachiel Guard Station
- Logging in Olympic National Park
- Prominent individuals in the history of Olympic National Park
- Political cartoons related to Olympic National Park
- Maps, newspaper articles, and advertisements related to Olympic National Park.
- 1889-1890 Expeditions to the Olympic Peninsula
- Mount Rainier National Park
- Emergency Conservation Committee members
- Names and Subjects
Carsten Lien Olympic National Park photograph collection, 1941-1982
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Lien, Carsten
- Title
- Carsten Lien Olympic National Park photograph collection
- Dates
- 1941-1982 (inclusive)19411982
- Quantity
-
191 negatives (2 boxes)
48 slides and 21 prints (1 box) - Collection Number
- PH0711
- Summary
- Photographs illustrating the political and environmental history of Olympic National Park
- Repository
-
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Carsten Lien was born in Seattle on March 24, 1926. He graduated from Ballard High School in 1944 before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. After the war, he attended the University of Washington (Bachelor’s Degree in Education) and Columbia University (Master’s Degree in Education and History) while also working for several summers as a seasonal ranger naturalist in Olympic National Park.
Lien had a long and varied career. Following his graduation from Columbia, he taught social studies at Ballard High School before working at the Bureau of Community Development at the University of Washington. He then took a position as a deputy administrator of the Latin America Training Program for the Peace Corps. Lien also worked at the U.S. Department of Labor, as a senior vice president at Washington Mutual Savings Bank, and as vice president and corporate secretary of REI.
After his retirement, Lien focused much of his efforts on conservation. In 1988, he served as the president of the Mountaineers, a Seattle-based hiking and climbing club that formed in 1906. Three years later, he published his first book Olympic Battleground: The Power Politics of Timber Preservation (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991), which explored the fight to save the forests in Olympic National Park from logging. Lien’s second book, Exploring the Olympic Mountains: Accounts of the Earliest Expeditions, 1878-1890 (Seattle: Mountaineers Books, 2001), was published ten years later.
In addition to his involvement with the Mountaineers, Lien served on the boards of The Nature Conservancy, Olympic Park Associates, Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Seattle Municipal League, and the Allied Arts of Seattle. He also ran for the Seattle School Board in 1974 and for mayor of Seattle in 1989, although he was not successful in either campaign.
Carsten Lien died on April 7, 2012.
Historical BackgroundReturn to Top
Federal management of forest land on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula began in 1897 when President Grover Cleveland issued a proclamation creating the Olympic Forest Reserve. Cleveland's proclamation mandated protection of 2,188,800 acres from settlement and development activities on the Olympic Peninsula. As a precursor to later debates regarding public land management, President William McKinley subsequently reduced acreage in the Olympic Forest Reserve by nearly 700,000 acres in 1900 and 1901 under pressure from timber companies and development advocates. In 1907, the Olympic Forest Reserve became known as the Olympic National Forest as part of the Forest Service's reorganization into the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Concurrent with the rise of environmentalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, President Theodore Roosevelt established Mount Olympus National Monument in 1909 to help preserve forest and grazing areas for the Olympic Peninsula's native elk population. Mount Olympus National Monument originally included 610,560 acres, however, President Woodrow Wilson reduced the Monument by nearly 50% in 1915 in response to increasing demands for timber and mining resources. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially established Olympic National Park as a protected area under control of the U.S. Department of Interior's National Park Service. In the 1940s and 1950s, management of Olympic National Park became a topic of intense political debate between environmentalists and timber industry advocates. The National Park Service authorized controversial logging operations in Olympic National Park in 1955 and 1956, and debate regarding development in and resource management of public lands remains ongoing and highly contested.
Olympic National Park became an International Biosphere Reserve in 1976, and in 1981 earned distinction as a World Heritage Site. Environmental protection of Olympic National Park increased further in 1988, when nearly 95% of the Park received designation as a federal Wilderness Area. As of 2005, Olympic National Park encompasses 922,651 acres and receives nearly 3 million annual visitors. Olympic National Park is largely surrounded by the Olympic National Forest, which contains an additional 633,677 acres of federally-managed land and receives 455,900 annual visitors.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection contains images related to the political history, environmental protection, and public management of Olympic National Park and the Olympic National Forest. Special emphasis is placed on development activities, logging operations, and environmental activism in the 1940s and 1950s. Included are photographs by Neil Mortiboy used in a 1941 report entitled Sitka Spruce in Olympic National Park, photographs by Carsten Lien of historic buildings and lookouts in Olympic National Park, portraits of Emergency Conservation Committee members, photographs of logging operations in and around Olympic National Park, photographs of prominent National Park Service administrators, copies of related materials such as political cartoons, boundary maps, and newspaper advertisements, and copies of newspaper articles from The Seattle Press about the Press Expedition of 1889-1890 and the Conrad-Olmstead Party of 1890. This collection also contains images presenting the relationship between Mount Rainier National Park and Olympic National Park.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
View selections from the collection in digital format
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions might exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact the repository for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The collection is organized based on the collector's original order.
Acquisition Information
Donor: Carsten Lien, 2003.
Processing Note
Processed by Anna Siedzik, 2005.
Carsten Lien included detailed notations about the collection that provide political and historical context for the images presented. The finding aid contains most of these notations, however, some minor information (e.g. original negative numbers) is not included. A verbatim transcription of Lien's notes is available on request.
Separated Materials
Material Described Separately:Carsten Lien papers (Mss Coll 5527)
Bibliography
Lien, Carsten Exploring the Olympic Mountains: Accounts of the Earliest Expeditions, 1878-1890. Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2001.
Lien, Carsten. Olympic Battleground: The Power Politics of Timber Preservation. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991.
Overly, Fred Sitka Spruce in Olympic National Park. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1941.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Sitka Spruce in Olympic National Park, March-May 1941Return to Top
Neil Mortiboy ( photographer)This series contains photographs used in the 1941 report Sitka Spruce in Olympic National Park. The quotations accompanying individual photographs are taken directly from Carsten Lien's notations about the images.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/1 | 1 | Spruce root formation near Harlow Creek
on the Queets River
"The roots of these two trees extend above ground for a
distance of over forty feet."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/1 | 2 | Spruce trees three and a half miles up
the South Fork Hoh River Trail
"These trees apparently rooted on an old log."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/1 | 3 | April 1941 | |
| 1/1 | 4 | Spruce trees near Flat Bottom Shelter
on the South Fork Hoh River
"Spruce trees standing on stilts. The small tree in the center
is a hemlock."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/1 | 5 | Spruce tree near the Queets
River
"This huge spruce tree apparently took root on an old stump. The
stilted roots have since grown together."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/1 | 6 | Douglas fir stand half a mile up the
South Fork Hoh River Trail
"Very good quality Douglas fir stand. Note the clear boles and
the absence of underbrush."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/1 | 7 | April 1941 | |
| 1/1 | 8 | Forest containing some spruce trees
near Indian Pass Trail crossing the Calawah Valley |
May 1941 |
| 1/1 | 9 | Sitka spruce stand one mile above Flat
Bottom Shelter on the South Fork Hoh River
"Heavy stand of Sitka spruce. Note the absence of underbrush.
This stand is much higher than average commercial quality."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/1 | 10 | Spruce trees near the junction of the
Hoh River and the South Fork Hoh River |
April 1941 |
| ½ | 11 | Spruce and maple trees on the Queets
River four and a half miles outside the Olympic National Park
boundary |
April 1941 |
| ½ | 12 | Spruce trees on the Queets River Trail
one mile inside the Olympic National Park boundary
"Trail has been widened so that a wagon can be taken over it in
favorable weather."
|
April 1941 |
| ½ | 13 | Spruce trees three miles up the Queets
River Trail inside the Olympic National Park boundary
"Huge spruce trees."
|
April 1941 |
| ½ | 14 | Spruce stand on the Hoh River two and a
half miles below the Hoh Ranger Station
"Typical spruce stand. Note the poor pruning which is
characteristic of spruce."
|
March 1941 |
| ½ | 15 | Forest on the Hoh River near the Hoh
Ranger Station
"Tree with abnormal top is a Douglas fir."
|
March 1941 |
| ½ | 16 | Spruce forest on the Hoh River two
miles below the Hoh Ranger Station
"These trees are of average quality."
|
March 1941 |
| ½ | 17 | Spruce stand near the sixteen mile post
on the Hoh River Road
"These four trees evidently took root on an old log."
|
March 1941 |
| ½ | 18 | Spruce forest near the Queets River
four and a half miles inside the Olympic National Park boundary
"Old spruce forest on a bench above the Queets River."
|
April 1941 |
| ½ | 19 | Moss draped maple trees on the Queets
River Trail three and a half miles below Harlow Creek |
April 1941 |
| ½ | 20-21 | Spruce forest on the South Fork Hoh
River one mile above Flat Bottom Shelter
"Note the young spruce on the bench in the foreground."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/3 | 22 | Mixed forest on the Hoh River Trail one
and a half miles above the Hoh Ranger Station
"Young spruce, cottonwood, and occasional hemlock."
|
March 1941 |
| 1/3 | 23 | Fallen spruce tree on the Hoh River two
miles below the Hoh Ranger Station
"A huge spruce tree felled by the wind. The tree was split in
falling and revealed extensive rot."
|
March 1941 |
| 1/3 | 24 | Maple and spruce trees on the Hoh River
half a mile above the Hoh Ranger Station |
March 1941 |
| 1/3 | 25 | Spruce trees one mile above Flat Bottom
Shelter on the South Fork Hoh River
"The tree at the right appears to be of very good quality."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/3 | 26 | Sitka spruce stand on Washington State
land three miles up the South Fork Hoh River Trail
"It is felt that timber on state land should be logged before
consideration is given to logging on park lands."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/3 | 27 | Spruce forest on the Hoh River Road one
mile inside the Olympic National Park boundary
"The limby condition of the trees makes them of little
commercial value."
|
March 1941 |
| 1/3 | 28 | Elevated spruce tree roots
"Elevated spruce roots after parent log has rotted away."
|
March 1941 |
| 1/3 | 29 | Spruce and vine maple trees on the
South Fork Hoh River one and a half miles above Flat Bottom Shelter |
April 1941 |
| 1/3 | 30 | Spruce trees on the South Fork Hoh
River three quarters of a mile above Flat Bottom Shelter
"Young and vigorously growing spruce trees. Branches actually
reach the ground on the tree to the right."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/4 | 31 | Spruce forest on the Bogachiel River
just outside the Olympic National Park boundary
"Note the heavy growth of sword ferns."
|
May 1941 |
| 1/4 | 32 | Spruce grove near the Bogachiel Guard
Station |
May 1941 |
| 1/4 | 33 | Spruce and hemlock trees near Bogachiel
Guard Station
"Decadent stand of spruce with hemlock and spruce coming
in."
|
May 1941 |
| 1/4 | 34 | Forest near Smoke House Bottom on the
Queets River |
April 1941 |
| 1/4 | 35 | Hardwood flat on the Queets River three
quarters of a mile inside the Olympic National Park boundary |
April 1941 |
| 1/4 | 36 | View of the Queets River Valley near
the junction of the Queets River and the Sams River
"Looking up the Queets River Valley. Sams River joins the
Queets just around the bend of the River to the right. Park boundary crosses
flat in the foreground."
|
April 1941 |
| 1/4 | 37 | Junction of the Hoh River and the South
Fork Hoh River
"Hoh River inside Park boundary. South Fork Valley at the right
and the two rivers join in the center of the picture. Note that river has
washed out the road at the left. Note abundance of alder and cottonwood. Forest
beyond that is the spruce type."
|
March 1941 |
| 1/4 | 38 | Spruce forest on the Bogachiel River
half a mile up from the Olympic National Park boundary
"This is on private land - part of the nine sections excluded
from the Park."
|
May 1941 |
| 1/4 | 39 | Spruce forest on the Bogachiel River
two miles up from the Olympic National Park boundary
"Note the two elk crossing the river."
|
May 1941 |
| 1/4 | 40 | Logging on Soleduck Road |
March 10, 1941 |
| 1/4 | 41 |
Spruce stump on Hoh River five or six
miles from U.S. 101
"Huge spruce stump, 9 feet in diameter at the cut. 280 annual
rings at the cut. Hoh River above T.R.H. Schmitt Ranch."
|
March 1941 |
| 1/4 | 42 | Area of blown down trees on the Hoh
River Road inside the Olympic National Park boundary
"Mostly Douglas fir, hemlock, and spruce are also present."
|
March 1941 |
Lookouts and Historic Structures in and around Olympic National Park, 1948-1956Return to Top
Carsten Lien ( photographer)The quotations accompanying individual photographs are taken directly from Carsten Lien's notations about the images.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/5 | 43-44 | Jo and Jasper Bunch, Quinault
Pioneers
"The Bunch family homesteaded in the Lake Quinault region in
the 1890s and left names such as Bunch Lake, Bunch Creek. Their ranch ended up
inside the boundaries of Olympic National Park after the additions of 1940. It
has since been acquired by the Park Service for addition to the Park."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 45 | Pyramid Peak Lookout near Lake
Crescent
"WWII air raid warning lookout, Lake Crescent. No other
photograph of this now long gone building is known to exist."
|
1954 |
| 1/5 | 46 | Lookout on Geodetic Hill
"WWII air raid warning lookout on top of Geodetic Hill, on the
divide the Bogachiel and the Hoh. No other photograph of this now long gone
building is know to exist."
|
1954 |
| 1/5 | 47 | Mt. Walker Lookout near Hood
Canal |
1954 |
| 1/5 | 48 | Bogachiel Peak Lookout
"Vandalism on Bogachiel Peak. No longer exists."
|
1956 |
| 1/5 | 49 | Deer Park Lookout
"No longer exists."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 50 | North Point Lookout near Soleduck
Valley
"No longer exists."
|
1954 |
| 1/5 | 51 | Kloshe Nanich Lookout near Soleduck
Valley
"No longer exists."
|
1954 |
| 1/5 | 52 | View from Kloshe Nanich Lookout near
Soleduck Valley |
1954 |
| 1/5 | 53 | View toward Mt. Olympus from Kloshe
Nanich Lookout near Soleduck Valley |
1954 |
| 1/5 | 54 | View from Kloshe Nanich Lookout near
Soleduck Valley |
1954 |
| 1/5 | 55 | View toward Mt. Olympus from Kloshe
Nanich Lookout near Soleduck Valley |
1954 |
| 1/5 | 56-57 | Fall Shelter on Greywolf
Trail |
1956 |
| 1/5 | 58 | Three Prune Shelter in the Quinault
Valley
"No longer exists."
|
1956 |
| 1/5 | 59 | Camp Riley Shelter near the headwaters
of the South Fork Skokomish River
"No longer exists."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 60 | Storm King Inn on Lake Crescent after
its conversion to a Visitor's Center
"No longer exists."
|
1955 |
| 1/5 | 61 | Rosemary Inn on Lake
Crescent
"Has been greatly modified as it was later converted into an
educational center. Historic appearance is a rarity."
|
1955 |
| 1/5 | 62 | Lake Crescent Lodge
"This is its historic appearance before it was modified by the
addition of more rooms."
|
1954 |
| 1/5 | 63-64 | Lake Crescent Ranger
Station
"No longer exists."
|
1954 |
| 1/5 | 65 | Enchanted Valley Chalet in the East
Fork Quinault Valley |
1954 |
| 1/5 | 66 | Deer Park Ski Lodge
"No longer exists."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 67 | Port Angeles Ski Club at Deer Park Ski
Lodge
"No longer exists."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 68 | "Sweet's Place" near Olympic National
Park boundary in the Elwha Valley
"Inholding at ONP boundary in Elwha Valley, since acquired by
the Park Service. Buildings [sic] no longer exists."
|
1956 |
| 1/5 | 69 | Dosewallips Ranger Station
"No longer exists"
|
1954 |
| 1/5 | 70 | Ludden Homestead in Elwha
Valley
"Some remnants exist. He [Ludden] was a pioneer settler."
|
1949 |
| 1/5 | 71 | Olympic Hotsprings in Elwha
Valley
"No longer exists."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 72 | Andrews' Ranch in the Queets
Valley
"He [Andrews] was an early settler on the Queets River."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 73 | Klootchman Rock as viewed from Andrews'
Ranch |
1948 |
| 1/5 | 74-76 | Humes' Ranch in the Elwha
Valley
"Grant Humes was a pioneer settler in the Elwha Valley. Humes
Glacier on Mt. Olympus carries his name."
|
1949 |
| 1/5 | 77 | Elkhorn Ranger Station in the Elwha
Valley |
1949 |
| 1/5 | 78 | Elkhorn Ranger Station in the Elwha
Valley |
March 1949 |
| 1/5 | 79 | Olympus Guard Station in the Hoh River
Valley |
February 1952 |
| 1/5 | 80 | Staircase Ranger Station in the
Skokomish Valley
"Now gone, this building dates from the earliest days of
government involvement in peninsula resources."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 81 | North Fork Ranger Station in the North
Fork Quinault Valley |
1955 |
| 1/5 | 82 | LaPoel Ranger Station near Lake
Crescent
"Now gone."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 83 | Hoh Ranger Station in the Hoh River
Valley
"This extensive ranger station was originally built by the US
Forest Service and named Jackson Ranger Station after the adjacent creek of
that name. When the National Park Service inherited it, it was renamed after
the river. Now gone and totally replaced with an extensive Park Service
facility and campground."
|
1949 |
| 1/5 | 84-85 | Kilea Ranger Station in the Queets
Valley
"Originally built by the Forest Service. Now gone and replaced
with a Park Service facility located at a different site. Kilea Creek was where
the name came from."
|
1948 |
| 1/5 | 86 | Graves Creek Ranger Station in the East
Fork Quinault Valley |
1948 |
| 1/5 | 87 | Map: Forest Resources of the Pacific
Coast Counties of Washington |
undated |
| 1/5 | 88 | Map: Olympic National Forest Timber
Stand Density |
undated |
| 1/5 | 89 | Map: U.S. Forest Service Olympic Timber
Working Circles and Blocks |
undated |
| 1/5 | 90 | Map: Winter Elk Range from
Report on Mt. Olympus Elk by Ben
H. Thompson |
undated |
Bogachiel Guard StationReturn to Top
Carsten Lien ( photographer)The quotation accompanying these photographs is taken directly from Carsten Lien's notation about the images.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/6 | 91 | Bogachiel Guard Station
"On the Bogachiel Trail at the intersection of the trail to the
Calawha Valley. No longer in existence, this building was washed away by the
wintertime flooding of the Bogachiel River."
|
1982 |
Logging in Olympic National Park Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
SLOP Committee Photographs of Logging
in Olympic National Park
Carsten Lien made these copy negatives from originals taken by
the SLOP (Salvage Logging Olympic Park) Committee. The committee included the
following groups: The Mountaineers, Sierra Club, Seattle Audubon Society,
Olympic Park Associates, and the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs. The
quotations accompanying individual photographs are taken directly from Carsten
Lien's notations about the images.
|
|||
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/7 | 92 | Logging near La Poel Campground on
Lake Crescent, September 15, 1956
"Nine foot diameter stump of a Douglas Fir felled near La
Poel Campground on Lake Crescent. A 180 foot section was removed between the
stump and the crown. Pat Goldworthy of Sierra Club in picture."
|
undated |
| 1/7 | 93 | Logging on the Bogachiel River near
Mosquito Creek, September 16, 1956
"Backcountry logging on the Bogachiel showing loading of
green Douglas Fir logs cut in forest adjacent to river opposite Mosquito
Creek."
|
undated |
| 1/7 | 94 | Logging on the Bogachiel River near
Mosquito Creek, September 16, 1956
"Note size of green Douglas Fir logs cut from the forest
adjacent to log jam specified in the contract."
|
undated |
| 1/7 | 95 | Log loading area near the junction of
the North and East Fork Quinault Rivers, September 16, 1956 |
undated |
Logged Areas in Olympic National
Park |
|||
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/7 | 96-99 | Area on the Hoh River near the Hoh
Ranger Station logged three or four years earlier
Carsten Lien
(photographer)
|
1955 |
| 1/7 | 100-101 | Logged area on the north shore of
Lake Crescent
Paul Shepard
(photographer)
|
Summer 1956 |
| 1/7 | 102 | Logged area on Storm King Mountain as
viewed from Barnes Peninsula
Paul Shepard
(photographer)
|
Summer 1956 |
| 1/7 | 103 | Logged area near La Poel Ranger Station
Paul Shepard
(photographer)
|
Summer 1956 |
| 1/7 | 104-105 | Logged area on the North Shore of
Lake Crescent
Paul Shepard
(photographer)
|
Summer 1956 |
National Park Service Defends Logging
in Olympic National Park
Carsten Lien made these copy negatives from a report written by
Fred Overly (Olympic National Park Superintendent, 1952-1958) originally
published in May 1957. Overly drafted his comments in response to an article
about the ONP logging that appeared in the Winter 1956 edition of
Living Wilderness.
|
|||
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/8 | 106 | Chief Forester Lawrence F. Cook
surveys logging near the La Poel Ranger Station |
undated |
| 1/8 | 107 | Signs of ecological recovery from
logging operations near rivers |
undated |
| 1/8 | 108-109 | Signs of ecological recovery on
logging cat roads |
undated |
| 1/8 | 110-114 | Cut log drying out and becoming
resistant to beetle infestation |
undated |
| 1/8 | 115-116 | Trees cut to protect against
undermining from the Bogachiel River |
undated |
| 1/9 | 117 | Signs of ecological recovery from
road construction on the Bogachiel River |
undated |
| 1/9 | 118 | Log jam on the Bogachiel River, June
28, 1956 |
undated |
| 1/9 | 119 | Bogachiel River after logging
removed the log jam shown in Item 118 |
undated |
| 1/9 | 120-121 | Douglas Fir tree with rotten core
and top logged to reduce risk of fire |
undated |
| 1/9 | 122 | Spruce tree with rotten
top |
undated |
Salvage Logging
Operations
Carsten Lien made these copy negatives from documents in
National Archives Record Group 79.
|
|||
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/10 | 123 | Logging near the Hoh River Valley,
1956 |
undated |
| 1/10 | 124 | Car belonging to Pat Goldworthy of
the Sierra Club and SLOP Committee stalled crossing the Bogachiel River,
1956 |
undated |
| 1/10 | 125-126 | Logging near the La Poel Ranger
Station, 1956 |
undated |
| 1/10 | 127 | Logging near the Hoh River Valley,
1956 |
undated |
| 1/10 | 128 | Log booms on Lake Mills in the Elwha
River Valley, 1956 |
undated |
| 1/10 | 129-132 | Trees in log jam, 1956 |
undated |
| 1/11 | 133 | Large Douglas Fir tree, 1955 or
1956 |
undated |
| 1/11 | 134 | Logging bridge across the South Fork
Hoh River, 1955 or 1956 |
undated |
| 1/11 | 135 | Logging on the Hoh River, 1955 or
1956 |
undated |
| 1/11 | 136-137 | Logging near Lake Crescent, 1955 or
1956 |
undated |
| 1/11 | 138-140 | Logging on Soleduck Road,
1956 |
undated |
| 1/12 | 141 | Logging near Barnes Creek near Lake
Crescent, 1956 |
undated |
| 1/12 | 142 | Logging near Olympic Hot Springs and
Campground, 1956 |
undated |
| 1/12 | 143 | Logging near Olympic Hot Springs,
1956 |
undated |
| 1/12 | 144 | Log landing on the Lower Hoh River,
1956 |
undated |
| 1/12 | 145 | Logging near the Lower Hoh River,
1956 |
undated |
| 1/12 | 146-147 | Logging on Soleduck Road,
1956 |
undated |
| 1/12 | 148 | Log boom on Lake Mills in the Elwha
River Valley, 1956 |
undated |
| 1/12 | 149 | 8'7" Douglas Fir tree, 1955 or
1956 |
undated |
| 1/12 | 150 | Logging bridge across the Quinault
River, 1955 or 1956 |
undated |
| 1/13 | 151 | Logging on the Quinault River, 1955
or 1956 |
undated |
| 1/13 | 152 | Large Douglas Fir tree, 1955 or
1956 |
undated |
| 1/13 | 153 | Logging near the Lower Hoh River,
1956 |
undated |
| 1/13 | 154-155 | Logging near Olympic Hot Springs and
Campground, 1956 |
undated |
| 1/13 | 156-157 | Logging near road to Olympic Hot
Springs, 1956 |
undated |
| 1/13 | 158-160 | Logging on Soleduck Road,
1956 |
undated |
Prominent individuals in the history of Olympic National ParkReturn to Top
Carsten Lien ( photographer)Carsten Lien made these copy negatives from original negatives and secondary sources containing images of prominent individuals in the history of Olympic National Park. Items 174-177 are original negatives taken by Carsten Lien. The quotations accompanying individual photographs are taken directly from Carsten Lien's notations about the images.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/14 | 161 | Dedication of Olympic National Park,
1946 |
undated |
| 1/14 | 162 | Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior
(1933-1946) |
undated |
| 1/14 | 163 | Newton B. Drury, NPS Director
(1940-1951) |
undated |
| 1/14 | 164 | Harold Ickes at the end of the Hoh
River Road, 1938
Lien made this copy negative from an original photograph taken
by O.A. Tomlinson.
|
undated |
| 1/14 | 165 | William B. Greeley, Chief Forester
(1920-1928) |
undated |
| 1/14 | 166 | Conrad Wirth, NPS Director
(1951-1964) |
undated |
| 1/14 | 167 | Rosalie Edge, Peter Edge, Preston Macy,
Mrs. Preston Macy, and others on Hurricane Hill, Summer 1935. |
undated |
| 1/14 | 168 | FDR visit to Port Angeles, Washington
on September 30, 1934.
Lien made this copy negative from an original photograph taken
by Bert Kellogg.
|
undated |
| 1/15 | 169 | Preston P. Macy, Olympic National Park
Superintendent (1968-1951) |
undated |
| 1/15 | 170 | Newton B. Drury taking the Oath of
Office as NPS Director |
undated |
| 1/15 | 171 | Associate Justice William O. Douglas
views protestors near Ocean Strip inside Olympic National Park, July
1959
"William O. Douglas looks on at completion of hike down the
beach of ONP Ocean Strip to protest Park Service's planned road down the length
of the strip. Larry Venable of Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce confronts
Justice Douglas with signs expressing the Chamber’s viewpoint."
Lien made this copy negative from an original photograph taken
by Ira Spring; Copyright Bob and Ira Spring.
|
undated |
| 1/15 | 172 | Fred Overly, Superintendent of Olympic
National Park (1952-1958) |
undated |
| 1/15 | 173 | William B. Greeley, Chief Forester
(1920-1928) |
undated |
| 1/15 | 174-177 | Levin Coe, Quinault, carving canoes
three miles south of Queets Village |
1955 |
Political cartoons related to Olympic National Park Return to Top
Carsten Lien made these copy negatives from regional and national publications and other secondary sources containing political cartoons related to extraction of natural resources from federally-owned property.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/16 | 178 | "Yosemite Leads,"
Oakland Tribune, November 2,
1929 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 179 | "The Monster that Controls this
Property,"
The Washington Post,
1953 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 180 | "Resources Give Away,"
St. Paul Pioneer Press,
1909 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 181 | "Red Riding Hood and Escort Meet the
Wolves,"
The Denver Post, December 8,
1952 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 182 | "Rapee Designate,"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
December 30, 1980 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 183 | Cartoon discussing declining animal
population in Mt. Rainier National Park,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March
23, 1987 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 184 | Cartoon discussing oil industry
development along coast in Olympic National Park,
The Seattle Times, May 29,
1987 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 185 | "Rip Up Wilderness,"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May
21, 1987 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 186 | Cartoon regarding deforestation
appearing on American Tree Association letterhead, 1927 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 187 | Cartoon regarding deforestation
appearing in
The New Yorker, ca.
1937 |
undated |
| 1/16 | 188 | Cartoon regarding logging in Olympic
National Park,
New York Herald Tribune, November
1, 1947 |
undated |
Maps, newspaper articles, and advertisements related to Olympic National Park.Return to Top
Carsten Lien made these copy negatives from documents and secondary sources containing information about the history of Olympic National Park.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/17 | 189 | Map of "The Olympic Country" printed in
National Geographic Magazine,
April 1986 |
undated |
| 1/17 | 190 | Map of Olympic National Park by James
Wickersham, 1890 |
undated |
| 1/17 | 191 | Emergency Conservation Committee
Broadside on HR 10024, 1938 |
undated |
| 1/17 | 192 | Emergency Conservation Publication #63
- "Double Crossing Mount Olympus National Park," 1937 |
undated |
| 1/17 | 193 | Emergency Conservation Committee
publication regarding proposed Olympic National Park boundaries,
1934 |
undated |
| 1/17 | 194 | Front page of
Port Angeles Evening News on
October 1, 1937 regarding FDR visit to the Olympic Peninsula |
undated |
| 1/17 | 195 | Chamber of Commerce advertisement in
the
Port Angeles Evening News, June
30, 1943 |
undated |
| 1/17 | 196-197 | Rayonier advertisement regarding
development in Olympic National Park, December, 1954 |
undated |
| 1/18 | 198 | Map of Olympic National Park,
1947 |
undated |
| 1/18 | 199-200 | Map of the Olympic Mountains by W.G.
Steel, 1890 |
undated |
| 1/18 | 201 | Page from
The Daily Olympian discussing
Olympic National Park boundaries, July 20, 1943 |
undated |
| 1/18 | 202 | Olympic Peninsula Transition Zone
Forest Map, ca. 1954 |
undated |
1947 National Park Service Boundary
Reduction Proposal
Carsten Lien made these copy negatives from a report published
by the National Park Service in 1947 proposing boundary reductions in Olympic
National Park. The photographs show aerial views of Olympic National Park, and
the images also contain annotations that identify geographic landmarks and
proposed NPS boundary changes. Photographer Lowell Sumner took the original
photographs used in the NPS report. The quotations accompanying individual
photographs are taken directly from Carsten Lien's notations about the
images.
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| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/18 | 203 | Aerial view looking South, March
1947
"Proposed boundary would follow ridge crest between Bogachiel
and Calawah Rivers, eliminating the Calawah Valley from the Park."
|
undated |
| 1/18 | 204 | Aerial view looking North, March
1947
"View looking north across Bogachiel River showing areas
National Park Service proposes to relinquish."
|
undated |
| 1/18 | 205 | Aerial view looking West, March
1947
"Proposed new ridge boundary at divide between head of Sams
Rivers and Finley Creek."
|
undated |
1889-1890 Expeditions to the Olympic PeninsulaReturn to Top
Carsten Lien made these copy negatives primarily from an issue of The Seattle Press originally published on July 16, 1890. This issue of The Seattle Press provides a detailed narrative of the "Press Expedition" - a small group of explorers sent into the Olympic Mountains by the newspaper to research and document the topography, flora, and fauna of the area. The Press Expedition left Seattle, WA on December 8, 1889 and headed for Port Angeles, WA, where they completed final preparations for a wintertime exploration of the Olympic Mountains. On January 13, 1890, the party began its ascent up the Elwha River into the Mountains, and they reached Aberdeen, WA on May 21, 1890. The party returned to Seattle, WA on May 23, 1890 to hearty congratulations for their in-depth exploration of the Olympic Mountains and surrounding areas.
The July 16, 1890 issue of The Seattle Press also includes a narrative of the Conrad-Olmstead Exploration, a party that visited the Olympic Mountains from June 16-July 8, 1890.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/19 | 206 | Return of the Press Expedition members,
1890 |
undated |
| 1/19 | 207-219 | Pages 1-14 of the Press Expedition
Report printed in
The Seattle Press, July 16,
1890 |
undated |
Mount Rainier National ParkReturn to Top
Carsten Lien made these copy negatives from original negatives related to development in Mt. Rainier National Park.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| ½0 | 220 | Road Development Plan for Paradise
Valley, October 1927
Lien made this copy negative from an original photograph taken
by O.A. Tomlinson.
|
undated |
| ½0 | 221-223 | Bungalow Tents at Paradise Inn,
1917
Lien made these copy negatives from original photographs taken
by Asahel Curtis.
|
undated |
| ½0 | 224 | Automobiles parked on meadow at
Paradise Valley, 1917
Lien made this copy negative from an original photograph taken
by Asahel Curtis.
|
undated |
| ½0 | 225 | Sunrise Lodge, August 24,
1932
Lien made this copy negative from an original photograph taken
by Asahel Curtis.
|
undated |
Emergency Conservation Committee membersReturn to Top
Carsten Lien ( photographer)The quotations accompanying individual photographs are taken directly from Carsten Lien's notations about the images.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| ½1 | 226 | Rosalie Edge, Emergency Conservation
Committee Chair |
July 1959 |
| ½1 | 227 | Willard G. Van Name, Emergency
Conservation Committee Founder
"He was the leading American environmentalist in the 1920s,
1930s, and 1940s."
|
undated |
| ½1 | 228 | Irving Brant, Emergency Conservation
Committee Member
"Journalist and FDR confidant on environmental issues. One of
the three participating members of the ECC."
|
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Logging--Washington (State)--Olympic National Forest--Photographs
- National parks and reserves--Washington (State)--Olympic National Park--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Corporate Names
- Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.)--Officials and employees--Photographs
- United States. National Park Service--Officials and employees--Photographs
Geographical Names
- Olympic National Forest (Wash.)--History--Research
- Olympic National Park (Wash.)--History--Research
- Olympic National Park (Wash.)--Photographs
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Curtis, Asahel, 1874-1941 (photographer)
