Places: Jackson Hole, 1800s-1960s

File — Box: 10, Folder: 2

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Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: Illustration of John Colter, explorer scout and trapper, who discovered Jackson Hole, Wyoming during the winter of 1806-1807.
Photograph number 2: Alf and Sverre Engen visit an elk refuge while visiting Jackson Hole to put on a ski jumping exhibition in the mid 1930s.
Photograph number 3: Sign bearing the name of the person who was responsible for funding the first town ski jumping hill. The town hill, renamed Snow King, was in 1933, called the 'Ruth Hannah Simms Ski Hill." In the foreground are two Jackson Hole locals, Steve Leek and Geneveve Ward, circa 1930s.
Photograph number 4: Builder of the original Snow King cable tow, Neil Rafferty (sitting on sled), on the day the lift started operation.
Photograph number 5: Skiers trying out the Snow King cable tow, circa 1939.
Photograph number 6: View of the Jackson Hole ski area and the town of Jackson Hole, circa 1946.
Photograph number 7: An old World War II army truck which was aquired and used to power a ski tow at Teton Pass in 1947.
Photograph number 8: View from the top of Snow King ski lift overlooking the town of Jackson Hole and the Teton Range in the background, circa 1949.
Photograph number 9: International Ski Association (ISA) ski team who competed in the 1954 National Junior Skiing Championships: Dennis Stanley, Jean Baux, Jeannine Driskell, Gray Reynolds, Ken Reed, Fred Mathews, Alan Engen, Wesley Sine, Gary Ewing, Betty Lou Sine, Jeri Lee Anderson, Manya Baumbacher (Drew Jensen not present when photo was taken), March 1954.
Photograph number 10: Competitors patch from the 1954 National Junior Skiing Championships held at Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Photograph number 11: Early use of name badges and prizes by the Jackson Hole Ski Club. Elk horns were a unique and cost effective way to use a resource readily available.
Photograph number 12: The Snow King chairlift which began operation in January 1947, photo taken early 1950s.
Photograph number 13: Intermountain junior ski racer, John Curtis, jumping at the old hill at the base of Jackson Hole's Snow King Mountains, circa mid 1950s.
Photograph number 14: View of the Snow King downhill course which was first used for the Junior Nationals held in 1954. Photo taken circa 1960.
Photograph number 15: Teton Village as it looked in the mid 1960s.

Dates

1800s-1960s

Conditions Governing Access

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