Brighton Ski Resort records
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1838
Scope and Contents
The Brighton Ski Resort records (1915-2000) contain a master plan, brochures, season pass forms, trial maps, posters, articles, news clippings, ski passes, and typescript histories detailing the development of both Brighton, Utah and Brighton Ski Resort. This collection was photocopied and the originals were returned to Brighton Ski Resort in November 2000.
Dates
- 1915-2000
Creator
- Brighton Ski Resort (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Conditions Governing Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Organizational Note
Brighton, Utah first gained notoriety on 24 July 1857 when Mormon pioneers convened there to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley. Nearly eighty years later, in 1936, the Wasatch Mountain Club built a rope tow in Brighton, thus creating the first serviced ski area in the state of Utah. Improvements continued in 1946 when Brighton Recreations built, on the slopes of Mt. Millicent, the first chairlift in Brighton. Responding to Brighton Recreation's developments, a competing lift company in Brighton managed by Zane Doyle and Willard Jensen built, in 1956, a double chair lift, the first in the intermountain region. Seven years later Doyle and Jensen bought out their competitor and created Mt. Majestic, Inc., which added two new chairlifts and night skiing facilities at Brighton. In 1986, Boyne USA, a family-owned corporation headed by John Kircher, purchased the ski area and proceeded to build two additional lifts which today allow a skier at Brighton to access 850 acres of terrain. Additional items of interest in this collection include a history of Brighton's Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association Girls Camp, a history of Butlerville, Utah, a history of the Alpine Rose Lodge, and a report on the construction of both the Twin Lakes and Phoebe-Mary dams in 1915.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Brighton Ski Resort records (1915-2000) contain a master plan, brochures, season pass forms, trial maps, posters, articles, news clippings, ski passes, and typescript histories detailing the development of both Brighton, Utah and Brighton Ski Resort. The first serviced ski area in Utah was created at Brighton in 1936. The resort area has been expanded to cover 850 acres today.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Brighton Ski Resort in 2000.
Box 1, folder 20 was donated by John Clark in 2008.
1965/1966 ski pass purchased from Ken Sanders Rare Books in 2020.
Box 1, folder 20 was donated by John Clark in 2008.
1965/1966 ski pass purchased from Ken Sanders Rare Books in 2020.
Separated Materials
Photographs transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0379).
Processing Information
Processed by Dylan Esson in 2000.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2014 and 2022.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2014 and 2022.
Creator
- Brighton Ski Resort (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the Brighton Ski Resort records
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Dylan Esson and Betsey Welland.
- Date
- 2000 (last modified: 2020 and 2022)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2014: Finding aid revised and re-encoded by Betsey Welland to include an addendum to the collection.
- 2022: Finding aid revised by Betsey Welland to include an addendum to the collection.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu