Park City Mountain Resort photograph collection

Collection

Identifier: P0949

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Park City Mountain Resort photograph collection (1971-1994) contains negatives, photographs, and postcards, almost all of which are directly related to Park City Mountain Resort's role in Utah's winter sports industry and international competative ski ciruit. The colleciton includes promotional materials for the ski area, Utah's ski industry at large and the United States Ski Team, as well as images of the World Cup and other competitions held at the resort, and many other materials relating to the ski and snowboard industry in Utah and beyond. Founded in 1963, Park City Mountain Resort is one of three ski areas in the vicinity of Park City, Utah.

Dates

1971-1994

Creator

Park City Mountain Resort (Utah) (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 History

The town of Park City sprung up in Utah's Wasatch Mountains after army prospectors discovered silver in the area in 1868. Early miners used primitive skis and snowshoes as transporation to the mines, and skiing emerged a recreational activity by the 1920s. Scandinavian miners held jumping tournaments on the Creole Mine dump (now the Creole ski run to the Town Lift), and the newly formed Park City Ski Club conducted guided ski tours on the hills that make up the modern resort.

As the area's silver mining industry faded away in the mid 20th century, the town's last surviving mining company, United Park City Mines, received a federal loan to help revive conomically depressed rural towns and opened the city's first ski area, Treasure Mountain Resort, in 1963.

For its first four years of operation the resort featured the Skier's Subway lift, which carried skiers in modified mining trolleys two and a half miles through the pitch dark Spiro Tunnel to the Thaynes Hoist, where they boarded the old mine elevator and were lifted 1,750 feet to the surface near the Thaynes chair lift.

Treasure Mountain changed its name to Park City Ski Area in 1966 and to Park City Mountain Resort in 1996. Its sister ski resort, Park City West (later Wolf Mountain; now The Canyons) opened in 1968, and nearby Deer Valley opened in 1981.

Park City hosted its first World Cup ski race in 1986. During the 2002 Winter Olympic Games hosted by Salt Lake City, Park City Mountain Resort hosted the men's and women's giant slalom, men's and women's snowboarding parallel giant slalom, and both men's and women's snowboarding halfpipe events.

Extent

66 Boxes : 51139 images

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Arrangement

This collection is arranged loosely by photographer and then by year. Undated material by unknown photographers is arranged by topic and is located at the end of the register, beginning at box 37.

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

See also the Park City Mountain Resort audio-visual collection (A0664) and the Park City Mountain Resort records (ACCN 1938) located in Special Collections.

Processing Information

Processed by Chris Ehrman in 2007 and Garreth Harwood in 2007-2008.

Addendum processed by Sarah Davidson in 2010-2011 and Sara Caroline Davis in 2012.