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Skiing In Utah - A Photo Exhibit
Skiing In Utah - A Photo Exhibit
Skiing in Utah: From Early Transportation to Olympic Glory
Utah has a long history of skiing, beginning as basic transportation and developing to today's multi-million dollar recreation industry. The generally dry climate of Utah produces some of the "best snow on earth," and this resource is fully utilized. In the early mining camps of Alta and Park City, skis were used to deliver the mail or just to get around in the winter. By the 1930s, national ski jump competitions were being held at Ecker Hill, just outside Salt Lake City. Alta became Utah's first ski resort in 1940, and others, including Brighton, Park City, Solitude, Snow Basin, and Snowbird followed as skiing became a national pastime. Utah has recently been chosen as the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics, taking the sport of skiing into the next century.
For more information on the collections in this exhibit, see the Utah Ski Archives Guide or contact Special Collections. To view ski videos from the Multimdedia collecitons, visit the Marriott Library Youtube channel. The following photos are taken from various collections in Marriott Library's photo archives. Click the photograph number beneath each thumbnail to view these images, and many more, in the J. Willard Marriott Digital Library.
P0371n1_01_16, Alf Engen, Utah ski pioneer, at Alta,
ALTA, UTAH Collection, P0371
P0374n1_04_18
P0413n02_02_022, Corey Engen, Director of Snow Basin Ski School, 1930s,
SNOW BASIN SKI AREA Collection, P0374
P0413n02_02_023, Wasatch Tours bus unloading at Snow Basin, 1946,
EARL MILLER Collection, P0375
P0377 n 1_02_17, Brighton Ski Area parking lot, 1950s,
RUTH PEARY Collection, P0377
P0377 n 1_01_19, Claudette Colbert on the deck at Alta, 1940,
RUTH PEARY Collection, P0377
P0413n01_04_215, Alf Engen jumping at Ecker Hill,
RUTH PEARY Collection, P0377
P0378 n 1_02_17, Ski jumping at Ecker Hill, March 1947, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Collection, P0378
exhibit by Roy Webb, retired Photo Archivist