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Larry Warren photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0915

Scope and Contents

The Larry Warren collection contains eight 35mm slides from a pre-Olympic related lecture. The slides show graphs and lists explaining Salt Lake's infrastructure, existing Salt Lake facilities, facilities needing to be constructed, and revenues and expenditures related to the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

Dates

  • 1970-2000

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.

Biographical Note

Larry Warren (1950 - )

In a half century journalism career, Larry Warren chronicled the rise of skiing and winter sports in the Intermountain West through television, films, books, magazines and internet. The native of “vertically challenged” South Dakota gravitated west for schooling—and skiing—in the late 1960’s, falling hard for Utah’s Wasatch Mountains.

After earning a journalism degree from the University of Utah, he reported for KUTV-TV in Salt Lake City for 27 years, including Utah’s Olympic bids through the 2002 Winter Olympics and beyond. That expanded to an interest in the evolution of skiing and a parallel career as a ski historian, lecturer, columnist, freelance writer and filmmaker.

His writing resulted in books, national, regional and local magazine articles, ski trade journals and ski websites. His filmmaking focused on ski history for television, museums and promotional films for ski resorts. He became a frequent lecturer on skiing history and his print and television stories reached national audiences through magazines, the internet and network and cable television.

Following television, Warren served as manager of Park City’s community radio station KPCW, where the focus was frequently on skiing and tourism. He also became the popular emcee and voice of annual Utah ski gatherings, especially the “Ski Affair” of the University of Utah’s Marriott Library Ski Archives and the Alf Engen Museum’s annual Hall of Fame Inductions.

The recipient of Ski Utah’s “Excellence in Ski Journalism” award in 1995, Warren is also an honorary member of the Professional Ski Instructors of America/Intermountain Division.

Larry Warren’s prolific career brought the Intermountain skiing story to audiences across numerous media platforms for more than a half century.

Warren was inducted into the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame in 2020. The above biograpical note is from that event.

Extent

1 Box (1 box, some digital only)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The Larry Warren photograph collection consists of slides used to document a lecture on preparations for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games as well as personal and professional items realting to his career and induction in the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Larry Warren.

Related Materials

This collection forms part of the Utah Ski and Snowboard Archive, which is part of the S.J. Quinney Outdoor Recreation Archive

Separated Materials

Manuscript materials were transferred to the Larry Warren papers (ACCN 1256).

Processing Information

Processed by Mary Ann Curtis in 2001.
Title
Guide to the Larry Warren photograph collection
Author
Finding aid created by Mary Ann Curtis.
Date
2001 (last modified: 2018)
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

  • 2022: Finding aid revised and re-encoded by Sara Davis.

Repository Details

Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository

Contact:
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Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
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