Photo Book 1: Early Ski History-General, 2000 B.C.-Mid 1800s

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Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: Petroglyph (2000-4000 B.C.), Roedoey, Norway
Photograph number 2: Petroglyph (1500 B.C.), Zalavrouga, Russia
Photograph number 3: Swedish woodcut (1619) depicting soldiers on skis on guard at Glebova, Russia during peace negotiations between Russia and Sweden.
Photograph number 4: Illustration by Norwegian artist Knud Bergslien depicting two "Birkebeiner" warriors, Torstein Skeivla and Skjervald Skrukka, who carried the infant prince Hakon Hakonsson from Lillehamer to safety in the Osterdalen Valley at the time of the civil war in 1206 A.D. Painting done in 1868.
Photograph number 5: Portraits and image of Hannes Schneider ski jumping
Photograph number 6: Fridtjof Nansen, who made the first crossing of Greenland on skis. Image from the Graphic Newspaper, 1896.
Photograph number 7: Sondre Norheim, 1825-1895, of Norway. Invented the world's first ski binding made from thin shoots of birch roots. This binding was called the "Norheim binding."
Photograph number 8: Original Holmenkollen ski jumping hill in Oslo, Norway, late 1890s.
Photograph number 9: The first U.S. Olympic ski jumping team, 1924. Left to Right: Anders Haugen, LeMoine Batson, Harry Lein, Sigurd Overby, John Carleton. Not pictured, but also a member of the team was Ragnar Dmtvedt.
Photograph number 10-10a: Portraits of Carl Howelson, 1877-1955, taken in 1907 (left) and mid 1940s (right).
Photograph number 11: Mathias Zdarsky (1874-1946), considered the father of Alpine skiing.
Photograph number 12: Unidentified ski jumping hills
Photograph number 13: Mikkel and Torjus Hemmestveit. The Hemmestveit brothers were the first known ski jumpers in the United States. They made the first leaps on skis in America in 1880. Mikkel Hemmestveit set the first American ski jumping record of 37 feet in 1887 at Ishpeming, Michigan. Note the clothing, skis and bindings typical of ski jumping in the late 1800s.
Photograph number 14: Thomas A. Lokken, 1900 ski jumping in Ishpeming, Michigan
Photograph number 15: America's first ski jumpers. Top: Mikkel Hemmestveit, who made the first American distance record of 37 feet on February 8, 1887. Bottom: the Hemmestveit brothers Mikkel and Torjus.
Photograph number 16: Carl Tellefsen, first President of the National Ski Association
Photograph number 17: Holmenkollen ski jumping hill in Oslo, Norway, 1985
Photograph number 18: Miner trekking out to the gold fields in Laporte California, circa 1860s
Photograph number 19: First rope tow, Woodstock, Vermont
Photograph number 20-21: Portrait of Sir Arnold Lunn, founder of the Alberg Kaudahar race and inventor of the slalom, circa 1960s. Photo by Del Mulkey.
Photograph number 22: Portrait of Colonel George Bilgeri
Photograph number 23: Old ski found in Hjorundfjord
Photograph number 24: Arnold Lunn, left, ski historian and author of the book, The Story of Ski-ing, 1952. And Hjalmar Hvam, right, ski pioneer and inventor of America's first safety binding in 1937. Photo taken in circa early 1940s.

Dates

2000 B.C.-Mid 1800s

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