Subject: Newspaper/Magazine Highlights, 1930s-1990s

File — Box: 8, Folder: 27

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: Copy of newspaper clipping showing ski jumping styles of Alf Engen (left) and Sverre Engen (right) in flight at the exact same spot. Both were jumping from Ecker Hill on February 21, 1932.
Photograph number 2: A fun page showing what the "state of the art" ski equipment was reported to be like in the late 1930s in Utah. Photo taken from the 1939 edition of the Utah Skiing Manual.
Photograph number 3: Article from the Sunday morning October 15, 1939 Ogden Standard Examiner outlining the development of Snow Basin ski area.
Photograph number 4: Snapshot of "Who's Who of Skiing" in Utah as published in the 1939 edition of Utah Skiing Manual.
Photograph number 5: Copy of photo taken from the 1942 Western Ski Annual showing Alf Engen after competing in the 1941 National 4-Way Championship Cross-Country at Snoqualamie Pass, Washington.
Photograph number 6: Highlight of Alf Engen from The Sun Valley Sun, December, 1942
Photograph number 7: Alf Engen, greatest all-around skier in the world, shows his son, Alan, just a few of the more than 500 trophies he has won in copping every national title at least once. (Salt Lake Telegram April 9, 1942.)
Photograph number 8: Photo of Dick Movitz, Barney McLean and Steve Knowlton in the Salt Lake Tribune from Saturday, March 1, 1947.
Photograph number 9: Copy of an Iron Mountain, Michigan newspaper clipping showing the giant crowds that surrounded the Holmenkollen Ski Jumping Hill, Oslo, Norway, circa 1947.
Photograph number 10: Deseret News photo showing two young skiers, Dale Winchester and Alan Engen, at the Deseret News Ski School with Alf Engen.
Photograph number 11: Copy of Deseret News article showing Spence Eccles, Sr. teaching a class in the Deseret News Ski School, Ogden, Utah, circa mid 1950s.
Photograph number 12: Advertisement used for promotion of the summer ski jumping tournaments held at the Utah State fairgrounds in September, 1953.
Photograph number 13: Evelyn P. Engen, certified instructor in the Deseret News Ski School since it's beginning in 1948. Deseret News and Telegram, Alta, Utah, circa November 1955.
Photograph number 14: Photo copy of a newspaper clipping that ran in the Deseret News on September 15, 1958.
Photograph number 15: Deseret News article, Thursday February 15, 1979 titled "Alf's Path is Utah's Most Popular Ski Run," by Ray Grass.
Photograph number 16: Alf Engen named Utah's number one "Athlete of the Century."

Dates

1930s-1990s

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