Mt. Rainier travel and tourism guide collection
Scope and Contents
The Seattle Public Library collected the pamphlets over many decades. They range in date from the early 1900s to the 1980s.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1904-1986
Creator
- Seattle Public Library (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open and available for use.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions apply.
Biographical / Historical
The pamphlets were created by a variety of entities including the Rainier National Park Company, railroad companies and the National Park Service to promote the park’s attractions.
Full Extent
1.25 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Tourism pamphlets and brochures featuring Mt. Rainier and Mt. Rainier National Park.
Arrangement
Pamphlets are arranged alphabetically chronologically.
Processing Information
This collection includes pamphlets from the previous collection of Rainier National Park Pamphlet Volumes. For preservation purposes, these volumes were disbound to prevent further damage to the pamphlets and rehoused in folders and boxes.
Some pamphlets were also pulled from our Northwest Uncatalogued Collection and Seattle Room Vertical File or added via acquisition by the Seattle Room curator. New materials will be added to this collection as acquired.
Acknowledgement of Harmful Content
The Seattle Public Library Special Collections Department is committed to creating an inclusive archive that documents the history of our diverse communities in a respectful manner. Our collections include historic materials that may contain images and outdated language which can be harmful due to issues such as racism, colonialism, sexism and homophobia. This content can provide important insight into the creator and context of the historic materials but can also reveal hurtful biases and prejudices.
We may decide to use or retain harmful language in our description when the terms have been used by the creator(s) of the materials to describe themselves or their community; when we have reused description created by the donor; when we have transcribed information directly from the materials; and when using national standards such as Library of Congress Subject Headings, which allow for standardized searching and retrieval of records. When including language from the original material in our finding aids or descriptions, we will indicate that this material comes directly from the original item by putting the language in quotes or prefacing it with a note that says the description is transcribed from the item or provided by the creator.
We will continually review our finding aids to identify harmful language and encourage you to contact us at specialcollections@spl.org if you find language that causes concern.
- Title
- Mt. Rainier travel and tourism guide collection, circa 1904-1986
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Jade D’Addario
- Date
- February 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Public Library, Special Collections Repository