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Edward Stuhl Papers MSS 150 Special Collections• Meriam Library •California State University, Chico Contact Information Special Collections Meriam Library California State University, Chico Chico, CA 95929-0295 Phone: 530.898.6342 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.csuchico.edu/lbib/spc/iepages/home.html Collection Summary Title Edward Stuhl Papers, 1901-1981 Call Number MSS 150 Creator Stuhl, Edward, 1887-1984. Language of Materials English Extent Items: 31 boxes Linear Feet: 14.4 Abstract Diaries and journals of Edward Stuhl. Also includes correspondences, clippings, photographs, maps, water color paintings. Most of material relates to mountain climbing in California, Oregon, Washington, and Mexico. Four boxes contain material about Mount Shasta. Information for Researchers Access Restrictions Collection is open for research without restriction. MSS 150 23 August 2016 1 Usage Restrictions No restrictions. Digital Access http://archives.csuchico.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/coll40 http://archives.csuchico.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/coll5 Publication Rights The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary property. Alternate Form of Material No alternative forms available. Acquisition Information Lare Tanner, gift 1988 Processing Information Processed by: Mary Ellen Bailey, 1999, Pamela Nett Kruger, June 1, 2012 Encoded by: Preferred Citation Edward Stuhl Papers, MSS 150, Special Collections, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico. Online Catalog Headings These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs. Stuhl, Edward, 1887-1984. Mountaineering. Mountains -- California. Mountains -- Oregon. Mountains -- Washington. White Mountains (Calif. and Nev.) Thompson Peak (Calif.) Eddy, Mount (Calif.) Preston Peak (Calif.) Linn, Mount (Calif.) Whitney, Mount (Calif.) Lola, Mount (Calif.) Rose, Mount (Calif.) Devils Postpile National Monument (Calif.) Walker Pass. San Jacinto Peak (Calif.) San Gorgonio Mountain (Calif.) Castle Crags (Calif.) Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) Tamalpais, Mount (Calif.) Saint Helena, Mount (Calif.) Sutter Buttes (Calif.) El Camino Real (Calif.) Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) Klamath Mountains (Calif. and Or.) Lassen Peak (Calif.) MSS 150 23 August 2016 2 Related Collections Collection Described in Published Work: Wildflowers of Mount Shasta, "Lone Giant of the Cascades" / original watercolor paintings by Edward Stuhl; text written and compiled by Marilyn Clement Ford. Call Number: QK149 S74 1981 (N.E. Cal) Biographical/ Historical Note Edward Stuhl was born in January 21, 1887 in Hungary. When he was a year old he and his family moved to Graz, Austria. In 1903, he began to work in his father’s stained glass studio and attended classes at the Academy of Art in Graz graduating in 1906. He continued to work for his father and attended classes at the Munich Academy of Art. In 1909, he and Rosa Thaller migrated to the United States and were married in Chicago where he worked at a stained glass studio. A few years later, they moved to California and began working at a series of outdoor jobs - custodian of a hunting club, caretaker of estates, ranching. From 1937- 1953 he was caretaker of Rock Creek Camp, a hunting and fishing lodge on the Smith River. In 1953 the Stuhls moved to Mount Shasta City and became the custodians of the Sierra Club's Alpine Lodge at Horse Camp. Ed Stuhl became known as the local authority on the mountain's flora geology, history, and lore. He lived at the foot of Mount Shasta for the last thirty years of his life. He died there February 15, 1984. In Austria Edward Stuhl had hiked and climbed mountains. In 1912, he climbed his first California peak. He went on, in the next seventy years, to climb every mountain peak in California, Oregon and Washington. During these climbs he kept a daily record of the events, sights, trails, weather, and the people he met. He used photography to record each climb and painted the wildflowers he saw. Stuhl had a strong attachment to Mount Shasta. He climbed it successfully twenty-two times. Scope and Content/Collection Overview This collection consists of Edward Stuhl’s correspondence, diaries, records of his mountain climbs, photographs and wildflower paintings. The personal diaries (the earliest written in German) tell of his family and life in Austria. Later diaries are about his perception of life and his avocation. Correspondence is, for the most part, with people he met through his interest in botany or mountaineering. It includes correspondence with William Bridger Cooke, the first to catalog the flora of Mount Shasta. The records of all of his climbs on the west coast of North America and Mexico. Photographs and maps detail each climb as well as the written notes about what he saw and felt. The collection also includes the 367 watercolor paintings of California wildflowers - 204 of them from Mount Shasta. Others are from the South Coast, the Sierra Nevada, and the Smith River areas. A separate database allows for searching by common and scientific name. Arrangement BOX 1: PERSONAL JOURNALS BOX 2: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1926 – 1979. BOX 3: CORRESPONDENCE BOX 4: ROCK CREEK LODGE, 1937 – 1952 BOX 5: FOLLOWING THE CAMINO REAL, 1928 BOX 6: MOUNT SHASTA JOURNALS, 1917 – 1957 BOX 7: MOUNT SHASTA JOURNALS, 1958-1975 BOX 8: MOUNT SHASTA PHOTOGRAPHS MSS 150 23 August 2016 3 BOX 9: MOUNT SHASTA ACCENTS BOX 10: MOUNT SHASTA ALPINE LODGE BOX 11: KLAMATH MOUNTAINS BOX 12: MOUNT LASSEN BOX 13: SIERRA NEVADA BOX 14: CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS BOX 15: CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS BOX 16: CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS BOX 17: OREGON AND WASHINGTON BOX 18: OREGON AND WASHINGTON BOX 19: MEXICO BOX 20: MEXICO BOX 21: OTHER MATERIAL BOX 22: WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS BOX 23: MOUNT SHASTA NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS BOX 24: MOUNT SHASTA SKI BOWL BOX 25: ILLUSTRATIONS BOX 26: MOUNT SHASTA WILDFLOWERS BOX 26: MOUNT SHASTA WILDFLOWERS BOX 27: WILDFLOWERS BOX 28: WILDFLOWERS BOX 29: WILDFLOWERS BOX 30: CHARCOAL DRAWINGS, HAND DRAWN MAPS, PHOTOGRAPH BOX 31: ADDITIONS Material Cataloged Separately No material cataloged separately. Detailed Description of the Collection BOX 1: PERSONAL JOURNALS Folders 1 & 2 – Diaries in German. 1901 – 1910. 16 vol. Accounts of travels and mountain climbing in Austria and other European locations. Account of travel to America. Folders 3 & 4 – Diaries in English. 1887 –1979. 15 vol. Short entries recording travels, visits, visitors, weather, etc. Earliest entries give information about his parents, home, and school. Vol. 2-3, 5-12, 15-17. 1887 – 1969, 1970 – 1979. Folder 5 – Journal of trip to Austria to visit his mother and friends in 1920. 1 vol. California to Austria, German, 4pp. Graz to California, English, 15pp. Travel expenses. BOX 2: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE. 1926 – 1979. Folder 1 – 1929 – 1960. Climbing information. Information about Mt. Shasta. Correspondence with Charles Stewart (1929 –1934). Folder 2 – 1960 – 1967. Information about Mt. Shasta. MSS 150 23 August 2016 4 Folder 3 – Mt. Shasta information. Correspondence about flowers and paintings. Folder 4 – 1926 – 1970. California Debris Commission (1926). Sierra Club Lodge. Mt. Shasta. BOX 3: CORRESPONDENCE, 1952-1981 Folder 1 – E.S. Atkinson. 1952 – 1961. Santa Barbara. (Earlier correspondence in Box 4.) Folder 2 – Betsy Cogburn. 1957 – 1968. Berkeley and Taos, New Mexico. Photographs. Folder 3 – William Bridge Cooke. 1952 – 1981. San Francisco and Cincinnati, Ohio. Photographs. Folder 4 – Melba Edgerton. 1952 – 1974. Berkeley and Oaxaca, Mexico. Folder 5 – Jim Edwards. 1968 – 1973. Long Beach. Folder 6 – Lydia Fedoroff. 1960 – 1973. Cuernavaca, Mexico. Photographs. Folder 7 – Doris Little. 1962 – 1972. Lake Leonard, Ca. Photographs. Clippings about the Dakin family. Folder 8 – Otis Wikenhaeuser. 1955 – 1972. Santa Barbara, Ca., South America, Vermont. Painting by him of custodian’s house at Rock Creek Lodge in 1949. BOX 4: ROCK CREEK LODGE, Photographs and correspodnece, 1937 – 1952 Folder 1 – List of Photographs Photographs Folder 2 – Letters: 1938 – 1945 George O. Knapp Fred L. Allred Entries from Guest Book. Folder 3 – Atkinson – Knapp Period Letters re purchase agreements, right of ways, description of property, blueprints, aerial view. Letters: 1946 – 1951 M.D Knapp E.S. Atkinson Inventory – Rock Creek Lodge, June 15, 1951. Folder 4 – T.H. Canfield. 1951 – 1952 Letters: E.S. Atkinson. Drawing of Rock Creek Lodge property. Advertisement for Canfield properties. Folder 5 – Newspaper clipping MSS 150 23 August 2016 5 Humboldt Times. July 13, 1952. “Edward Stuhl and his camera penetrate Del Norte’s wilderness.” BOX 5: FOLLOWING THE CAMINO REAL, journal and photographs, 1928 Folder 1 – Journal of trip. Description of missions, countryside, cities. Visits to Tijuana and Santa Clara River disaster. Folder 2 – List of Photographs. Photographs. Folder 3 – List of photographs of missions. Photographs of missions. BOX 6: MOUNT SHASTA JOURNALS, 1917 – 1957 Folder 1 – First visit to Mount Shasta. June – July 1917. Pp. 1-26. Folder 2 – My first assault on Mount Shasta. August 1923. Pp. 27 – 63. Folder 3 – First ascent to the summit of Mount Shasta accompanied by Charles L. Stewart. July 1924. Pp. 64 -82. Second ascent of Mount Shasta accompanied by Helen Wheeler. August 1924. Pp.83 –93. Folder 4 – Mud Creek rampage. July 1925. Pp. 94 – 103. To the source of Mud Creek accompanied by Messrs, Egenhoff, Dorst and Hill. July 1925. Pp. 104 -113. Exploring the south and west slopes. September 1925. Pp. 114 -128. Folder 5 – Third ascent of Mount Shasta. Early winter conditions. Accompanied by Herbert Clark. Pp. 129-137. Fourth ascent of Mount Shasta. Caught in a blizzard and snowbound in Alpine Lodge. January 1926. Pp. 138-151. To Alpine Lodge. Rosa’s first visit to Shasta. Climb to top of Painted Cliff accompanied by Charles Stewart. June 1926. Pp. 152-155. Fifth ascent of Mount Shasta. First ascent of Shastina Crater Cone. Accompanied by Charles Stewart and Patrick Leonard. July 1926. Pp. 156-167. Folder 6 – A hoodooed Shasta trip. August 1926. Pp. 168-171. Exploring Mud Creek Canyon.