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Individual Collections in the New England Ski Museum
Updated Friday, August 22, 2008


Holdings of the Museum include collections of various types of material assembled and/or donated by the following individuals or organizations, in order of date of donation:

 

Fred Harris: 4 news clip scrapbooks and one photo album; two wooden boxes of glass lantern slides; all relating to the Dartmouth Outing Club and the Brattleboro Outing Club.

 

US Eastern Amateur Ski Association: Minutes, Conference Reports, Notebooks of the Executive Director (Roger Peabody), periodicals, large quantity of photographs used in publication of Skier and Ski Annual

 

Roland Palmedo: Correspondence file ca 1944-1947, with letters to and from Charles Lord, J. Negley Cooke, Abner Coleman re: Mt Mansfield and search for a new ski area in the Green Mountains that became Mad River Glen; and still photographs and photo album.

 

Lowell Thomas: Books (a complete collection of his writings); skis; ski pants; photographs.

 

Aurele Legere: News clip scrapbook compiled by Everett Martin re: Legere, Nordic skiing in Rumford ME.

 

Ski Club Hochgebirge: News clip scrapbooks with articles relating to SCH.

 

Roger Langley: Master’s thesis, Survey of Skiing in the United States; papers relating to publication of American Ski Annual.

 

Christine L. Reid: Large quantity of photographs; news and magazine clips.

 

Charles Trask: Large quantity of photographs, chiefly in Cannon and Mt Washington regions.

 

Cannon Mountain: 4 news clip scrapbooks; large collection of films; one record storage box with materials on the 1967 World Cup races at Cannon.

 

Donald McBrien: 18 record storage boxes of material relating to USSA races, results, and early computerized race timing.

 

Walter Prager: News clip scrapbook; still photographs; clothing and equipment.

 

Anna McIntyre: 4 record storage boxes of material relating to the first USSA snowboard races and teams; and World Cup and other races held at Waterville Valley.

 

Seldon Hannah: 16 record storage boxes of material relating to his career as a ski area consultant; still photographs and ink-jet copies from photo albums in the possession of his family; clothing.

 

Sno-Engineering: 3 record storage boxes, numerous slides, and ca. 45 maps relating to ski resort planning.

 

John W. McCrillis: 6 record storage boxes of material relating to skiing in general, his film of the Moosilauke Down-Mountain race, Dartmouth Outing Club, and his book co-authored with Otto Schniebs.

 

Fred Moore: 2 record storage boxes of material relating to Eastern Interclub Ski Club League, race officiating, including 1967 Cannon World Cup.

 

Hans Thorner: Collection of books,  films, Swiss ski periodicals, color transparencies, news clippings, and typescripts relating to donor's career as ski instructor, filmmaker, writer and founder of Magic Mountain, VT.

 

Toni Matt: 36 ski racing trophies, 1 photo scrapbook, 1 clipping scrapbook, 3 3/4" videotapes. 4 1/2" videotapes, 3 audiotapes, 8 photographs, newspaper clippings, 2 books, literature, and identification documents.

 

John Jay: 14 boxes of film created by John Jay.  Total collection includes approximately 2,046 reels of film (mostly 16mm 100' reels in boxes) and 27 audiotapes, dating from 1949 to 1963.

 

Robert J. A. Irwin: Collection of books, periodicals, papers and artifacts assembled by the donor: 401 volumes of books, 3 framed prints, single Tubbs ski pole, large collection of mounted and unmounted prints and artwork.

 

Richard Nelson: Collection of four boxes of US Eastern Amateur Ski Association and US Ski Association records.

 

Albert Jackman: 3 folders of papers, one folder of photographs and assorted ski equipment.

 

Malcolm McLane: One record storage box of papers relating to Wildcat Mountain Corporation.

 

Skiing Magazine: 11 record storage boxes with collection of historic photographs, slide transparencies, and negatives assembled by Skiing Magazine.

 

William Luitink: Collection assembled by/about Sgt. William Luitink of Co A, 85th Mountain Infantry, including: photo album with photographs of Camp Hale; 8 loose photographs; Purple Heart certificate; 3 letters re: grave site; and US memorial certificate signed by President Roosevelt.

 

Ruth & Stanley Brown: Collection of memorabilia assembled by Ruth Ziegler and Stanley C Brown, operators of Blandford Ski Area, including books, periodicals, postcards, posters, photographs and archives.

 

Herbert Schneider: 3 news clip scrapbooks with material relating to his family’s relocation to the US in 1939 and their early years in the US; ink-jet photographs copied from donor’s collection and returned to him; suitcases used by his father on his 1939 journey to US; two pairs of skis used by his father.


John Litchfield : Collection of seven albums containing photographs, clippings, articles, letters and photocopies relating to the donor's career as a competitive skier at Edward Little High School in Auburn, Maine and at Dartmouth in the 1930s, with some references to his time at Sun Valley, Idaho and Aspen Colorado. The collection includes one folder with photocopies, one desk set award engraved with the name of the donor's father, Norman Litchfield, and clippings, recent ski history periodicals, and one 2002 Winter Olympic press kit.



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