Subject: Patches/Stamps/Miscellaneous, 1940s-2000s

File — Box: 8, Folder: 29

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: Copy of telegram sent by Alf Engen to his wife, Evelyn, advising her of his winning the National 4-Way Skiing Championship and his brother, Sverre, placing 2nd. Telegram dated March 18, 1940.
Photograph number 2: The first two patch insignias for the Alf Engen Ski School at Alta, dated early 1950s and 1958.
Photograph number 3: Insignia patch for the Alf Engen Ski School used by the Instructor staff from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s.
Photograph number 4: Patch insignia for the Gaddis Training Organization (G.T.O.) which was started by Jim Gaddis in 1967-1968.
Photograph number 5: 1991 Intermountain Masters Ski Racing ball cap with logo designed by Alan Engen.
Photograph number 6: The Mount Olympus Ski Club insignia patch
Photograph number 7: The Utah Ski Club insignia patch
Photograph number 8-9: Enlarged photocopy (front and back) of Alf Engen's membership card to the Great American Prospectors Association signed by George H. Watson, Mayor of "Romantic Alta."
Photograph number 10: "Zach's Express", first U. S. illustration of a skier in connection with the mail in the mid 1800s.
Photograph number 11: The 1925 Hungarian stamp, first known to depict a skier
Photograph number 12: U. S. Ski stamps covering the 1932, 1960, and 1972 Winter Olympics
Photograph number 13: U. S. Ski stamps covering the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics
Photograph number 14: U. S. Ski stamps covering the 1984 and 2002 Winter Olympics

Dates

1940s-2000s

Conditions Governing Access

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