Places: Alta, Utah, People, 1930s-1980s

File — Box: 9, Folder: 3

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Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: Early ski outing at Alta: S. Joe Quinney, Ed "Nord" Nordquist, two unidentified, David Quinney, Sr. and Axel Andresen, circa mid 1930s.
Photograph number 2: Alf Engen, Felix Koziol and Ted Keller, circa 1938
Photograph number 3: Bottom of the original Collins lift terminal. Mayor George Watson's cabin can be seen on the right.
Photograph number 4: One of Alta's early inventions to try and move skiers up the mountainside. This lift was called "The Barge" and it started near where the current (2000) Collins Grill is located and went up Aggies Alley. It only operated for two ski seasons and was then discarded. Photo circa 1940.
Photograph number 5: Alta Lodge shortly after it opened
Photograph number 6: Alma Hansen leading Reserle Peterson in new powder snow at Alta, Utah
Photograph number 7: Mike Reddish, age 12, and his father Don Reddish, President of the Intermountain Ski Association, enjoying a ski outing. Photo circa 1945.
Photograph number 8: Alf Engen performing a gelande jump, circa 1946
Photograph number 9: Skiing couple view the mountain majesty of Mount Superior at Alta, Utah, circa 1946
Photograph number 10: Montgomery "Monty" Atwater, snow ranger, at Alta doing weather studies at his ranger station. Photo circa 1946.
Photograph number 11: Mrs. Bertha Howard at Alta, Utah, circa mid 1940s
Photograph number 12: Seymour Joseph Quinney (1892-1983) at Alta in the mid 1940s
Photograph number 13: Alf Engen, Ski School Director, on top of Peruvian Ridge with Mount Superior in the background, circa 1950
Photograph number 14: Emelie Segil and Adrian Segil at Alta, Utah
Photograph number 15: Leo Fox (?) and Emelie Segil (?) at the top of Alta's Peruvian Ridge with Little Cottonwood Canyon in the background, circa early 1950s.
Photograph number 16: Alta's first snow cat machine called the "snow jeep," circa early 1950s
Photograph number 17: Skiers at Old Watson's Shelter, circa 1953
Photograph number 18: Trying out the new Germania Ski Lift: Vern Despain, Forest Service engineer and Fred Speyer, General Manager, Salt Lake Winter Sports, circa 1954.
Photograph number 19: Hauling skiers with a snow machine called the "Weasel," circa mid 1950s
Photograph number 20: S. Joe Quinney, Jody Lawson and Janet Quinney Lawson at Alta, circa early 1960s
Photograph number 21: Alf Engen and James "J." Laughlin at the Alta Lodge, circa 1966
Photograph number 22: Alf Engen in the powder, circa late 1960s
Photograph number 23: Former Salt Lake Mayor, Ted Wilson, shredding the powder at Alta, circa 1977
Photograph number 24-26: Alf Engen and Georg Hartlmaier skiing powder at Alta, Utah
Photograph number 27: Alf Engen, Evelyn Engen and John Cahill (Peruvian Lodge owner and one of America's finer senior marathon runners), in the Alf Engen Room at the Peruvian Lodge at Alta, Utah, circa 1980.
Photograph number 28: Three Alta dignitaries: Charles "Chic" Morton, Ruth Rogers Altmann and Alf M. Engen. Photo taken on March 19, 1989 as part of Alta's 50th year celebration event titled "Skiing as I Remember" by Alf Engen.
Photograph number 29: Bruce deBoer, age 5, at Alta, Utah, November 10, 1946

Dates

1930s-1980s

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