Selected photos from the Utah Ski Archives, documenting the history of ski competition on local, national, and international levels; the founding of major resorts; snow safety and avalanche control; ski equipment; ski instruction; freestyle skiing; the 10th Mountain Division; back-country skiing; and virtually every facet of winter sports in Utah and the surrounding region.
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Petroglyph (1500 B.C.), Zalavrouga, Russia. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_01_002 |
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Mathias Zdarsky (1874-1946), considered the father of Alpine skiing. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_01_011 |
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First rope tow, Woodstock, VT. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_01_019 |
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Portrait of Col. George Bilgeri. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_01_022 |
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Portrait of Mathias Zdarsky. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_008 |
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Suicide Hill in Ishpeming, MI, circa late 1920s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_012 |
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Early scaffold jump, nine mile, Farmington, Michingan. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_020 |
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Lady ski fashions of the early 1900s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_025 |
| 9 |
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Cross-country ski touring. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_028 |
| 10 |
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Men skijouring behind a car. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_029 |
| 11 |
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Young child on skis. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_030 |
| 12 |
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Young man holding a pair of skis in front of a mining shaft | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_033 |
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Group of skiers touring in the Wasatch mountains. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_034 |
| 14 |
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Possibly the old blind miner of Brighton, ca 1880s or 1930s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_037 |
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Early view of Alta, circa 1920s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_040 |
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Balsam Inn at Brighton, circa early 1930s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_042 |
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Members of the Wasatch Mountain Club looking over the snow covered terrain, mid 1930s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_043 |
| 18 |
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Wasatch Mountain Club members on a skiing trip, early 1930s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_051 |
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Wasatch Mountain Club members on a skiing trip, early 1930s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_052 |
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Skiers taking the snow train to Deer Valley, circa 1930s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_055 |
| 21 |
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Ralph Johnston and Fred Speyer in "Spring" ski wear, circa early 1930s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_057 |
| 22 |
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Wasatch Mountain Club girls on skis, early 1930s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_065 |
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Members of the Wasatch Mountain Club visiting Alta, circa 1920s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_066 |
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Wasatch Mountain Club at Alta, circa mid 1920s. The building in the background is George Watson's boarding house located close to where the base of the Collins and Wildcat lifts are now. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_067 |
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Sverre Engen holding a pair of skis during the early 1930s. | P0413 Alan K. Engen Photograph Collection | P0413n01_02_099 |