Abstract The Gustav F. Raaum papers (1940-1990) include newspaper clippings, copies of scrapbooks, and correspondence. Raaum was born in Norway in 1926 and first came to the United States as part of a Norwegian ski jumping team. He won many awards for ski jumping in the 1940s and 1950s and later became a successful accountant and was president of the Jackson Hole Ski Corporation from 1968 to 1970.