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Photograph of Mary Cronin climbing a rock wall - photographed by Agnes Vaille. Early 20th century.

Photograph of Mary Cronin with a backpack descending a slope toward a small wooden structure, a valley and mountain ridge in the background, photographed by Agnes Vaille. Early 20th century.

Copy of message sent from Fanny Bullock Workman to Henry G. Bryant, Secretary of the American Alpine Club. The message is dated December 23, 1909 and is sent from London to Philadelphia.

Selected illustrations from The Adventures of Miss Brown, Miss Jones and Miss Robinson at Biarritz and the Pyrenees. Published in 1879. This is an early record of female mountaineers.

A newspaper clipping from the New York Tribune - Jan 20, 1910 - containing a letter to the editor of the Tribune from Fanny Bullock Workman announcing that Annie Peck's estimate of the height of Mt. Huascaran was incorrect. Mrs. Bullock Workman…

Photograph of Mrs. Thompson climbing a snow outcropping with ice axe and rope. Date is unknown.

Photo of Mrs. Thompson sitting in the snow with an ice axe and rope. Date is unknown.

Typed trip notes describing a trip by Dr. and Mrs. Bullock Workman to the upper Chogo. The notes describe the activities of the expedition and mention a cairn built by the party to replace a previous cairn which had been destroyed by an avalanche.…

Handwritten letter from Annie Peck to Henry G. Bryant, Secretary of the American Alpine Club. The letter is on the stationary of the Hotel Alabama in New York and is dated January 16, 1910. Peck writes about the resolution passed by the club the…

Handwritten letter from Annie Peck to Henry G. Bryant on letterhead of the Clarendon Hotel in New York. The letter is dated January 4, 1909. In the letter, Peck requests information about the number of AAC members present at the meeting of the club…