Hack Miller photograph collection, 1930-1996

Overview of the Collection

Photographer
Miller, Hack
Title
Hack Miller photograph collection
Dates
1930-1996 (inclusive)
Quantity
8 Boxes
Collection Number
P0811
Summary
Most of the photographs in this collection were taken by Hack Miller, sports editor for the Deseret News. Hack Miller covered a wide range of subjects such as, skiing, the Olympics, boxing, golf, basketball, football, fishing, hunting, rivers, army, Vietnam and more.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

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.

Languages
English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Most of the photographs in this collection were taken by Hack Miller, sports editor for the Deseret News. Hack Miller covered a wide range of subjects such as, skiing, the Olympics, boxing, golf, basketball, football, fishing, hunting, rivers, army, Vietnam and more. In Box 1 - Box 5 of this collection there are 1009 black and white photographs (8 x 10 or smaller), 10 color photographs, and 6 postcards. Box 6 contains 654 black and white negatives, 32 color transparencies, and 23 contact prints. Box 1 Oversize contains 2 black and white photographs and 1 color transparency. All identifications included in this register are found on back of the photographs or on the envelopes containing negatives. More information about Hack Miller as well as some of the individuals and places photographed can be found in Accn 1678.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on 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.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Collection is arranged topically.

Separated Materials

See also the Hack Miller papers (ACCN 1678) located in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.

Processing Note

Processed by Kristi Pace in 2000.

Related Materials

This collection forms part of the Utah River Running Archive, which is part of the S.J. Quinney Outdoor Recreation Archive

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Skiing and SnowmobilesReturn to Top

  • 184 black and white photographs

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
Skiing: Alf Engen
  • 1: Alf Engen and Chic Morton et al.
  • 2: Chic Morton, K. Smith, Alf Engen, and two forest service supervisors
  • 3: Alf Engen
  • 4: Alf Engen and two others
  • 5: Alf Engen at Alta, 1963
  • 6-9: Alf Engen
  • 10: Stein Erickson at Alta, 1975
1 2
Skiing: Alta/Avalanche Control
  • 1: Loading the gun at Alta (duplicate in folder)
  • 2: Blasting from the roadway near Alta
  • 3: Avalanche busters, throwing dynamite by hand (duplicate in folder)
  • 4: Ready to throw blaster bombs, Alta, 1960-1961
  • 5: Monte Atwater, #1 snow buster at Alta
  • 6: Monte Atwater at Alta, throwing dynamite charge, about 1965-1970
  • 7: Alf Engen and others going avalanche busting
  • 8: Avalanche prospect, man carrying dynamite to set off in the snow
  • 9: Looking over avalanche problem
  • 10: Making avalanche plans
1 3
Skiing: Alta/General
  • 1: Testing and avalanche area
  • 2-3: Alta
  • 4: Alta at end of road, also end of the ski season
  • 5: Mount Majestic
  • 6: End of Alta's ski season
  • 7: Hot and cold at Peruvian Lodge
  • 8: Dick Durrance
1 4
Skiing: Alta/Ski School
  • 1-3: Alta ski school
  • 4: Alta to Brighton
  • 5-6: Alta, ski line
  • 7: Alta, long lines even in old days, springtime
1 5
Skiing: General
  • 1: Over Brighton summit toward Midway, Washington's Birthday annual trek, 1960s
  • 2-4: Skiers
  • 5: Halfway eatery site
  • 6: unidentified man and woman
1 6
Skiing: Jackson Hole
  • 1: Jackson Hole, 1969
  • 2: Huch Paulsen, 1969
  • 3-4: Stiegler, 1968
  • 5: Gretchen Fraser, 1965
  • 6-9: Jackson Hole, 1969
  • 10: Mike Miller skiing Jackson Hole
  • 11-14: Jackson Hole, 1969
  • 15: Gretchen Fraser, 1965
1 7
Skiing: Park City
  • 1: The new quarters for US Ski Team
  • 2-3: Willy Schaefler at Park City
  • 4: Willy Schaefler and Karen Karfanta at Park City
1 8
Skiing: Snowbird
  • 1-3: Snowbird
1 9
Skiing: Lowell Thomas/Action
  • 1-5: Lowell Thomas, famed traveler, relaxes at Alta resort, April 1962
  • 6: Lowell Thomas on short skis at Alta
  • 7: Lowell Thomas and John Sawyer at Mont Tremblant, 1961
  • 8: Lowell Thomas and Prof Ryan (U of U), Alta, 1967
  • 9: Lowell and Roger Haran, 1970
  • 10: Lowell at 85 years old in the Canadian Rockies
  • 11: 1967
  • 12: 1965 at Alta
  • 13: Lowell, age 86 at Alta, 1979
  • 14-15: Lowell Thomas and Alf Engen at Alta, 1962 and 1976
  • 16: Lowell Thomas
  • 17: Gretchen Fraser in the lead, Miggs Jennings Durrance, Alf Engen, Lowell Thomas, Lowell Thomas Jr., and Don Fraser, top of Germainia at Alta
  • 18: Lowell Thomas in the lead, Alf Engen, Gretchen Fraser, Miggs Jennings Durrance, et al.
  • 19-26: Lowell and Mariana skiing at Park City, cross country, March, 1981
1 10
Skiing: Lowell Thomas
  • 1: Lowell Thomas visits Park City, 1964
  • 2: Lowell Thomas, 1966
  • 3: Lowell Thomas, commentator at Alta, 1961
  • 4: Lowell Thomas at Alta with his 2 1/2-footers
  • 5-6: 1975 at Alta
  • 7-8: Last ski picture of Lowell Thomas, March, 1981 at Park City
  • 9: 1962
  • 10-11: Lowell Thomas and Roger Haran, Park City, 1970
  • 12: At Park City Plaza with Hack Miller, 1973
  • 13: Lowell Thomas and Alf Engen, 1972
  • 14: Chic Morton and Lowell Thomas, 1979
  • 15: Hack Miller and Lowell Thomas, 1975
  • 16: F.C. (Kozy) Koziol and Lowell Thomas at Park City
  • 17: Lowell Thomas Cup Race Chairman Tim Heydon and race benefactor Lowell Thomas admire mammoth trophy while placing finishing touches on ski classic
  • 18-19: Lowell Thomas and others
  • 20: Lowell Thomas and Hack Miller, Alta, 1974
  • 21: Lowell Thomas, Hack Miller, and Alf Engen, Alta, 1974
  • 22: Lowell Thomas, Hack Miller, and Dick Bass (owner of Snowbird)
  • 23: Lowell Thomas, Stein Erickson, and Hack Miller at Park City, 1974
  • 24: Hack Miller, Otto Long, Alf Engen, F.C. Koziol, 1979
  • 25: Snowbird, March 9, 1974
  • 26: On Lowell's 84th birthday, 1976
  • 27: Left-Right: Felix Koziol, Lowell Thomas Jr., Alf Engen, Miggs Durance, Lowell Thomas, Gretchen Fraser, Don Fraser, Hack Miller
1 11
Lowell Thomas and Others
  • 1: Lowell Thomas with President David O. McKay
  • 2: President Spencer W. Kimball chats with news commentator Lowell Thomas at NCAA game, 1979
  • 3-7: Hack Miller and Lowell Thomas
  • 8-9: Lowell Thomas
  • 10-12: Lowell Thomas, Hack Miller, and others
  • 13: Left-Right: Edward R. Murrow, Thomas Dewey, Gene Sarazen, Lowell Thomas, Sam Snead
  • 14: Large group, including Lowell Thomas and Hack Miller
1 12
Lowell Thomas: New York Place/Boyhood Home
  • 1-17: Lowell Thomas' place at Pawling New York (contact prints)
  • 18-23: Old Quaker Meeting House in Pawling New York (contact prints)
  • 24: Barbara Miller and dog Toni at Lowell=s boyhood residence, Cripple Creek mining town in Colorado, 1971
  • 25: 1971, Cripple Creek, Colorado
1 13
Lowell Thomas: Military
  • 1: Admiral James Reedy
  • 2: 1917
  • 3: Lowell Thomas used this shower June 1, 1934
  • 4: Horseman
  • 5: ancient ruins
  • 6-7: sacrificial altar
  • 8-9: a Lawrence in Arabia
1 14
Lowell Thomas: Yellowstone
  • 1: Lowell Thomas, 1969
  • 2-3: Lowell Thomas and Barbara Miller at Old Faithful Geyser, 1969
  • 4-5: Hack and Barbara Miller
  • 6: The way to Yellowstone Park
  • 7: Photographing an elk herd
  • 8: Lunch at Old Faithful Geyser, 1969
1 15
Snowmobiles: General
  • 1-4: Unidentified
  • 5: Repair Stack
  • 6: Loring woodman and his Darwin ranch
  • 7-8: Unidentified
  • 9-11: Coming through an avalanche in Alta
  • 12-15: Unidentified
  • 16: Timber Trail
  • 17: Unidentified
  • 18: Three moose
  • 19: At Bryce/Cedar Breaks, 1970
  • 20: Lodge
1 16
Snowmobiles: North Pole
  • 1: Map
  • 2: Treacherous chasms in Arctic ice cap (foreground) and pressure ridges (background) confronted Plaisted Polar Expedition of 1968, but group conquered them with Ski-Doo snowmobiles and reached the North Pole April 19, 1968
  • 3: On Polar Ice Cap, Four Ski-Doo snowmobiles got Expedition safely to Pole on April 19, 1968
  • 4: Photo taken from aircraft window over Plaisted encampment, April 20, 1968
  • 5: Plaisted Polar Expedition camp
1968

OlympicsReturn to Top

  • 143 photographs

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1
Olympics: Squaw Valley, 1 of 2
  • 1: Bob Flora scoops snow from Olympic Flame urn early on Feb. 18
  • 2: Olympic Flame burns brightly in front of Tower of Nations, Feb. 18
  • 3: 2,000 pigeons, symbols of peace are released during opening ceremonies of VIII Winter Olympics in center of outdoor ice skating rink, the main ice arena is in the background
  • 4: Artists rendering of the Tower of Nations and Olympic Flame
  • 5: Jerry Calogna and Bill Hannah
  • 6-8: Olympic Preview, 1960
  • 9: Russian hockey team captain, Nikolai Sologubov shakes hands with Jack Kirrane captain of the US hockey team on the victory stand, Feb. 28
  • 10: Figure skating, Miss Heiss
  • 11: Speed skaters Kathleen Mulholland and Beverly Buhr outside at the Olympic Village
  • 12: Swedish skier Sonja Edstrom-Ruthstrom walks past area guard during a snow storm
  • 13: Ice hockey, US and Czechoslovakia
  • 14-16: Chair lift
1960
2 2
Olympics: Squaw Valley, 2 of 2
  • 1-2: Ski jump, Tahoe National Forest
  • 3: Construction of ski lodge
  • 4-6: Interior of ski lodge
  • 7-8: Porch around ski lodge
  • 9: Cafeteria line
  • 10-11: Olympic village
  • 12-13: Construction of ice rink
  • 14: Tahoe National Forest range
  • 15: At war with avalanches
  • 16: Eliminating avalanche hazards before they have a chance to build up and become dangerous.
  • 17: Hockey sculpture
1960
2 3
Olympics: Grenoble
  • 1: Grenoble, 1968
  • 2-6: Opening ceremonies
  • 7: Olympics accommodation bureau
  • 8: Train station to venues
  • 9: Ritz at Paris, Tom Watson and Lowell Thomas
  • 10: Utahns at Grenoble
  • 11-16: Ski areas
  • 17-28: Olympic village
1968
2 4
Olympics: Mexico City
  • 1: Hack Miller, checking out his seat at the finish line, October, 1968
1968
Folder
5
Olympics: Munich, 1 of 2
  • 1: Duane Bodick and Jim Murray
  • 2: Max Schmeling, former heavyweight boxing champ
  • 3: Jim Ryun and athlete
  • 4: Contact sheet
  • 5: Jim Ryun in the Athletic village
  • 6: Tamara Tyshkyevich, Russian shot putter
  • 7: Three of the 1,650 hostesses for the Olympic Games of 1972 wearing the official "Dirndl" in the Bavarian colors of white and blue
  • 8: Everybody will find a souvenir of the town where the XX Olympic Games will take place
  • 9-11: Sports hall near the stadium
  • 12: Swimming hall
  • 13: Olympic grounds, Television tower, indoor swimming pool (center) and multipurpose gymnasium (at right), part of the Olympic Village (foreground)
  • 14: Olympic stadium holding 80,000 spectators
  • 15: Velodrome holding 5,000 spectators
1972
Box Folder
2 6
Olympics: Munich, 2 of 2
  • 1: Diving competition
  • 2: Gymnast competition
  • 3-4: Canoe run at Augsberg
  • 5: Bavarian town where the canoe slalom competitions will take place on the "Eiskanal" (length 600 meters). 35 concrete humps in the water of the artificial canoe slalom course will cause rapids, backwaters and eddies. The visitors of the Olympic games will reach Augsburg by special trains from Munich in 35 minutes.
  • 6: The athletes played on miniature golf course
  • 7: The press room
  • 8-9: Press headquarters
  • 10: Olympic village
  • 11-12: Press headquarters
  • 13-15: In Munich
1972
2 7
Olympics: Sapporo, 1 of 2
  • 1-3: Unidentified
  • 4: The starting timer installed at the starting gate for the downhill provides adequate warning to each participant visually and by sound
  • 5-9: Downhill course
  • 10: Arena, hockey
  • 11-13: Scoreboard
  • 14-17: Spectators
1972
2 8
Olympics: Sapporo, 2 of 2
  • 1-4: Ice sculptures (color)
  • 5: Press room (color)
  • 6-7: Sapporo (color)
  • 8-9: Press room (color)
  • 10: Ice sculptures
  • 11-15: Olympic Village
  • 16-21: Sapporo
1972
2 9
Olympics: Montreal
  • 1: Hack Miller, Bud Jack, Jay Silvester (silver medalist)
  • 2: Richard George, BYU, Olympian, Javelin
  • 3: Unidentified olympian
  • 4-6: Opening ceremonies
  • 7-8: Swimming hall
  • 10: Equestrian track
  • 11-13: Contact sheets
1976

SportsReturn to Top

  • 204 photographs

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 1
Boxing: Gene Fullmer
  • 1: Gene Fullmer and Hack Miller in West Jordan gym
  • 2-7: Gene Fullmer
3 2
Boxing: Gene Fullmer/Webb Fight
  • 1-6: 2nd Webb fight, December 4, 1959 in Logan
  • 7: 1st Webb fight, September 11, 1958
  • 8-16: 2nd Webb fight, December 4, 1959
3 3
Boxing: Gene Fullmer Fights
  • 1: Gene Fullmer and Ralph "Tiger" Jones weigh in before the fight
  • 2: Fullmer v. Jones
  • 3-4: Fullmer defeats Robinson, 1961
  • 5: Gene Fullmer, 1961
  • 6: Robinson, 1961
3 4
Boxing: Jack Dempsey
  • 1-2: Jack Dempsey
  • 3: Jack Dempsey and Estelle Allerdale vacation at Miami Beach
  • 4: Jack Dempsey
  • 5: Jack Dempsey and daughters, Joan and Barbara
  • 6-7: Jack Dempsey
  • 8: Jack, Joan and Barbara Dempsey
  • 9-10: Jack Dempsey
  • 11: Jack Dempsey meets two West German gymnasts, Hardi Frenger and Ursula Brian
  • 12: Jack Dempsey, Vincent J. Velella, and Irving B. Kahn
  • 13: Jack Dempsey thinks boxing need federal intervention for survival
  • 14: Jack Dempsey
  • 15: Jack Dempsey gives out pointers to Stan Howlett and Thomas Garrion
  • 16: Jack Dempsey watches the progress of the Wallcott/Marchiano champion fight on the United Press teletype in Galesburg, PA
  • 17: Jack Dempsey acknowledges the salute of five year old Warren Walker at the New York Sportsmens Show
  • 18: Jack Dempsey
  • 19: Mrs. Harmon Spencer Auguste
  • 20: Producer Jack Dempsey
3 5
Boxing: Rex Layne
  • 1: Rex Layne, 1951
  • 2-3: Rex Layne
  • 4: Rex Layne v. Jersey Joe Walcott
  • 5-6: Rex Layne v. Ezzard Charles
  • 7-9: Rex Layne fights
3 6
Golf: Ben Hogan
  • 1: Ben Hogan
  • 2: Fleck beats Hogan, 1955
  • 3: Ben Hogan and Jimmy Thompson at Fort Douglas
3 7
Golf: George Von Elm
  • 1-2: George Von Elm
3 8
Golf: Johnny Miller
  • 1: 3 color transparencies
  • 3-4: Johnny Miller, 1976 in Provo
3 9
Golf: Jack Nicholas/Arnold Palmer
  • 1-4: Jack Nicholas
  • 5-6: Jack Nicholas and Arnold Palmer
  • 7-8: Arnold Palmer
3 10
Golf: General
  • 1: Walter Lusty
  • 2: Walt Harris with George Schneiter
  • 3: Philippines Open
3 11
Wrestling: General
  • 1: Hy Sharman
3 12
Basketball: Allen Holmes
  • 1-3: Allen Holmes, Utah Sate v. University of Utah
3 13
Football: General
  • 1: University of Utah football, 1934 or 1935, old Ute stadium before Rice re-fix
3 14
Camping: Amethyst Basin
  • 1-5: Amethyst Basin
1952
3 15
Fishing: Flaming Gorge/Loda Lake
  • 1: Verl Hanchett with 29 lb. 8 oz. fish
  • 2-3: World record brown trout, caught 1975 at Flaming Gorge by Chuck Keefer(?)
  • 4: Unidentified fisherman with fish
  • 5: Bill Turnbow, Zel Davis, with mornings catch of Strawberry Reservoir cutthroats taken on fly rods, 1949
  • 6: Flaming Gorge, 1967
  • 7: Hack Miller holding big Bass caught in Florida where Mercury boats are tested, 1961
  • 8: Leigh Lake near Moran, Wyoming
  • 9: Loda Lake, Wyoming, 1973
  • 10: Flaming Gorge created Green River as the number one fishing stream in Utah and provided other outdoor excitement
  • 11-12: Unidentified
  • 13: Jim Bond and Rathie with fish
3 16
Fishing: Salmon River, 1 of 2
  • 1: Phyllis Giles of Salmon City with 22 pound Steel head taken on main Salmon River at the end of the road down river from Shoup
  • 2: Bill Lowe of Blackfoot with Steel head. Taken in spring of year when ice goes out and the water temperature warms to ripen the roe
  • 3: Monte Wight lands a Steel head on main Salmon River
  • 4: At Steel head fisherman keeps his cool while trying to tempt the ocean, going steelies that run the Salmon River (River of no return) ice overhead will soon break off and fall into the river.
  • 5-6: Tanner and Eskelson flop in rapid in the middle fork of the Salmon River, 1955.
  • 7: Dennis McCarthy on middle fork of Salmon River
  • 8: Hack Miller rowing Pistol Creek Rapids, middle fork of Salmon River, July 22, 1955
  • 9-10: Unidentified
  • 11: Stanley Basin, Salmon River
  • 12: Idaho's Middle Fork
  • 13: Salmon River
1955, 1958
3 17
Fishing: Salmon River, 2 of 2
  • 1-3: Fishing
  • 4: Gray Kenner
  • 5-8: Unidentified
  • 9: Don Smith with his fish with Dick Everett
  • 10: On the River of no Return, Don Smith (right) Bob Smith (son) follows in Mercury driven river boat
  • 11-17: Unidentified
  • 18-23: Contact sheets
1955; 1958
3 18
Fishing: Strawberry Reservoir
  • 1-2: This was taken on a silver Dardelle Lure just before sunset...as the three others were. Six casts, four whopper trout!
  • 3: Shumway with a tail-walking five-pound rainbow
  • 4: Lake shallowed
  • 5: Strawberry 1974 opening day near Frank Madsen camp
  • 6-7: Strawberry, 1974
  • 8: Off the old runway, Big Fish, Strawberry
  • 9: This is the kind of riffle the fishermen want for their lure casting or fly fishing. Flies are best in total darkness
  • 10: Unidentified
  • 11: Fisherman goes to dark flies as the sun sets and darkness comes
1974
3 19
Hunting: General
  • 1-6: Gene Fullmer hunting
3 20
Montana: Earthquake
  • 1: Hack Miller near sign for Halford's Cabins
  • 2: Base mark 18 (or 19) feet lower in elevation
  • 3: Back lawn of this Motel is even with roof
  • 4: Culligan's fence; 18 feet lower than before
  • 5: Men repair valves on dam outlet
  • 6: Grace Millers motel on the tilt
  • 7: Mounds in the lake
  • 8: K. Smith puts up mailbox on what he believes is his land
  • 9: Where is the property line - 18 feet of escarpment
  • 10-12: Unidentified
  • 13: K. Smith, looks over the fissure in the area
  • 14: High water mark at Fireside Camp near dam
  • 15: More of the Culligan Ranch
  • 16: Culligan's stable is 18 feet lower
  • 17: One house intact, bird house, Grace Miller's place
  • 18: Tilted toward the lake, pulled back on solid ground, note old foundation
1959
3 21
Yellowstone National Park: Winter, 1 of 2
  • 1: At the Upper Geyser Basin near Old Faithful
  • 2: Barbara, Mike, Scott
  • 3: Mike Miller, 1970
  • 4: Barbara Miller, 1970
  • 5-7: Unidentified
  • 8: The Miller family, Yellowstone, 1970
  • 9-10: Mike Miller, 1970
  • 11: Yellowstone Falls
  • 12-16: Yellowstone
3 22
Yellowstone National Park: Winter/2 of 2
  • 1-16: Yellowstone, 1970
1970

Rivers/Lake PowellReturn to Top

  • 294 Photographs

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
4 1
Rivers: Colorado River
  • 1: Bert Loper
4 2
Rivers: Green River/Friendship Cruise
  • 1: Friendship Cruise
  • 2-4: Gary and Linda Garff
  • 5-39: Green River
4 3
Rivers: Green River/Denis Julian Rock
  • 1-2: Denis Julien Rock
  • 3: John Faucett
  • 4: Dennis Julien signature in 1831
4 4
Rivers: North Fork River
  • 1: We set up canoe and had lunch in the rainstorm while Moose blocked our river way. Sid Eliason is preparing grub.
  • 2-4: Unidentified
  • 5: John Hill brings a nice rainbow to net on the North Fork between Ashton Bridge and Chester Bridge
4 5
Rivers: Salmon River/Flying with Bob Fogg
  • 1: 1946
  • 2: 1940 trip at Dagger Falls, Lynn Hansen, Willy Johnson
  • 3: Flying 1946-1947, Bob Fogg, Andy Anderson, Lynn Hansen
  • 4: Hunters take to the river trails for their hunting. Here the Forest Service has dynamited a trail into a cliff around a gorge
  • 5: One Middle Fork, 1946, fly in to fish
  • 6: Andy Anderson
  • 7: 1949
  • 8-9: Bob Fogg flying, 1949
  • 10: Looking south west over the A.A. Bennett's Ranch on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River.
1946-1947
4 6
Rivers: Steamboat Rock and Yampa Rivers
  • 1-2: Unidentified
  • 3: Prospectors Cabin
  • 4-5: Unidentified
  • 6: Dr. Frazier does a solo down a naughty rapid
  • 7: A large sandstone dome in Split Mountain Canyon, the mountain is striped with black and blue water stains
  • 8: We photographed many young hawks
  • 9: Looking up Green River from the Echo Park dam site at head of Whirlpool Canyon
  • 10: 1937 trip
  • 11-13: Unidentified
  • 14: Steamboat Rock, 1937
  • 15: Unidentified
1935-1977
4 7
Rivers: Yampa River/Green River
  • 1-19: Rivers
1954
4 8
Lake Powell: Fishing
  • 1-4: Lake Powell
  • 5: Rainbow Bridge
1964
4 9
Lake Powell: General/Contact sheets
  • 1-23: Contact sheets
4 10
Lake Powell: Early
  • 1: Roy Despain mapping our flight
  • 2-3: Roy Despain, lunch
  • 4-8: Roy Despain on our airplane trip
  • 9: Aerial view
  • 10: Signing in at Halls Crossing airport
  • 11: Cal Black and Hack Miller
  • 12: Roy Despain and Cal Black
  • 13: Beginning of Halls Crossing
4 11
Lake Powell: Rainbow Bridge
  • 1: Hikers on the rim of Rainbow Bridge
  • 2: Rainbow Bridge
  • 3: Scott at natural bridge
  • 4-7: Before water reached Rainbow Bridge
  • 8-10: Aerial view looking up Bridge Canyon showing Rainbow Bridge, 1971
  • 11: Famous bridge, Aztec Canyon, aerial
  • 12: Bridge before flooding, aerial
4 12
Lake Powell: Fishing/Boating
  • 1-2: Lake Powell
  • 3: Old camp on Colorado River
  • 4-6: Bullfrog Marina
  • 7: Lake Powell
  • 8: Houseboat
  • 9-10: Lake Powell
  • 11-15: Bass fishing, Lake Powell, Eden Canyon
  • 16: Lake Powell
  • 17: At the head of Iceberg Canyon on Lake Powell, brush areas at heads of canyons have become over-patronized
  • 18-21: Lake Powell
  • 22: Eden Canyon, Lake Powell
  • 23: Lake Powell
4 13
Lake Powell: Aerial Views
  • 1: Glen Canyon Dam
  • 2-3: Lake Powell
  • 4-5: Desert
  • 6-7: Lake Powell
  • 8: Movie site here, desert
  • 9: Lake Powell, early days
  • 10: Colorado River
  • 11: Water backing up in draws
  • 12: Halls Crossing
  • 13-15: Bullfrog Marina
4 14
Lake Powell: Formations
  • 1-4: Unidentified
  • 5: Escalante Canyon
  • 6-10: Unidentified
  • 11: Hole in the Rock
  • 12: Unidentified
  • 13: Entrance to Moqui Canyon
  • 14: Unidentified
4 15
Lake Powell: Miscellaneous
  • 1: Aerial fish planting in Lake Powell, torpedo bomber flies low over the reservoir and 167,000 tiny Rainbow trout plummet toward the water
  • 2: Airplane
  • 3-5: Water flooded this area
  • 6: At Arizona, when lodge was built near dam
  • 7-8: Soon under water, Biblical movie made here
4 16
Lake Powell: Indian Ruins
  • 1: 1975, steps up the wall between Moqui and Knowles Canyon, east side
  • 2: Moqui Canyon
  • 3: Don Andriano and Henry Helland look around Moqui Ruins
  • 4: Steps
  • 5: Canyon wall
  • 6-10: Uncovering ruins
4 17
Lake Powell: Fishing/Boating/1 of 2
  • 1: He won his own trophy, best bass fishermen will gide in the rocks where bass lurk, here Lincoln White, veteran bass fisherman casts surface plugs for shallow feeders in Cedar Canyon
  • 2-5: Unidentified
  • 6: In Hell Roaring Wash the search is on for gizzard stones, old signatures, and arrow points, remnants of another era in history.
  • 7: Water skiing
  • 8-19: Unidentified, Lake Powell
1973
4 18
Lake Powell: Fishing/Boating/2 of 2
  • 1-16: Lake Powell, miscellaneous scenes
  • 17: Hole in the Rock, June 1964
  • 18: Lake Powell
1973
4 19
Lake Powell: Scenery
  • 1: This is the last tree at Hole in the Rock crossing near Halls Crossing. The old shade trees will soon be under water.
  • 2-3: Ken Tuttle
  • 4-19: Lake Powell scenery
  • 20: Before Bullfrog Marina
  • 21-25: Lake Powell scenery
1973
4 20
Lake Powell: Hole in the Rock
  • 1: Here is the trail, Hole in the Rock
  • 2-3: Lake Powell
  • 4: Hole in the Rock aerial view
  • 5: Hole in the Rock from the water
  • 6-8: Lake Powell
  • 9: How the country looks, so they had to cut in somewhere
  • 10: Hole in the Rock, looking down the way the pioneers went, they camped on this flat
  • 11: Hole in the Rock country
  • 12: Steps where horses went down Hole in the Rock

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  • 203 photographs

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
5 1
Army: General/Europe/1 of 2
  • 1: Civic Center, Southampton
  • 2-3: Salisbury Cathedral in England
  • 4: Near Remsey (?), England
  • 5-7: December 1944 in England
  • 8: Col. Kiser inspects ships
  • 9: Loch Katrine in Scotland
  • 10: Southampton
  • 11: Wilton on Izaak Walton's trout stream
  • 12-13: Salisbury, England
  • 14: Col. Sherman L. Kiser
  • 15: Southampton ship area
  • 16: Frossachs Hotel, Scotland
  • 17: Lord Pembroke (?) at Wilton
  • 18: Lord Pembroke's estate at Wilton, Wiltshire
  • 19: River Trent, Wilton
5 2
Army: General/Europe/2 of 2
  • 1: Scotland
  • 2: Pembroke Mansion at Wilton
  • 3: This is the big stuff I sent overseas from Weymouth and Portland Bill
  • 4: Unidentified
  • 5: Near Remsey (?), England
  • 6: River Grent at Wilton
  • 7: Thomas Hardy's home
  • 8: Salisbury Cathedral
  • 9: House
  • 10: River Grent at Wilton
  • 11: Near Bridgeport
  • 12: Devonshire, west of Dorchester and north near Stone Hedge
  • 13: Entrance to Bournemouth
  • 14: Wilton, England, fishing
  • 15-16: Near Wilton
  • 17: Forguay Bay, Hitler's preference
  • 18: Winchester Cathedral
  • 19: Dorset Farm area
5 3
Vietnam/1 of 2
  • 1: Aaron W. Clark, Hack Miller, Billy Casper
  • 2: Hack Miller, ?, Billy Casper in Vietnam
  • 3: Birthday party for war orphans at the Seabee Orphanage in Danong, Vietnam, 1966
  • 4: Casper arrives by helicopter at Special Forces outpost near Ashau Valley
  • 5: Missionaries looking into Red China
  • 6: Missionary and Hack at edge of Red China in Hong Kong
  • 7-8: Red China
  • 9: John Bobling, Red China viewpoint, the host house
  • 10: With friends, I hope
  • 11-12: Train stopped for entire war when Vietcong stole the tracks, 1965
  • 13: The city we bombed
  • 14: Bien Hoa, infantry tents among the tombstones
  • 15: USS Bon Homme Richard CVA-31, steaming in the Indian Ocean with her three Destroyers escorting her
  • 16: Sky Raider with load taking off, Bon H. Richard
  • 17: Trying to soften the Jungle for the ground action
  • 18-19: The Bon Homme Richard
  • 20: 1966, child receiving a toy
5 4
Vietnam/2 of 2
  • 1: Our boat showing us the target, China Sea
  • 2: Missiles, Marble Mt. area
  • 3: The bombed bridge near Marble Mt.
  • 4: New S7 camp
  • 5: gun
  • 6: Vietnamese being presented toys, soap, candy and clothing by 1st Sgt. Donald B. McClellan
  • 7: Vietnamese boy is all smiles after receiving this toy police car, candy, and soap from Sgt. Ray W. Goff
  • 8: 1st Sgt. Donald G. McClellan, John M. Pagano, Gary K. Orr, and Ray W. Goff
  • 9: 1966
  • 10: Marines and toys
  • 11: Home to some
  • 12: Waiting to fly to safety we took women, babies, pigs, and cows
  • 13: Bomb strike, S7 camp
  • 14: Dalat (?), the vacation city, 2300 ft. high
  • 15: Missile launcher, Marble Mt.
  • 16: Philippines Open Golf, 1966
  • 17: Gathering parachute
  • 18: Run far is Bang Bang
  • 19: Camouflage
  • 20: Tom Walker, RADM, USN
  • 21: Toy time with marines
  • 22-24: S7 camp
  • 25: Philippine Open, en route to Vietnam, 1966
  • 26: Danong
  • 27: Unidentified marines
  • 28: Carrier (color photograph)
5 5
Contact Prints
  • 1-34: Contact prints from Vietnam and Philippine Open
5 6
Hawaii
  • 1: USS Arizona, 1956
  • 2: SS Utah
  • 3-4: Waikiki Beach (postcard)
  • 5: Mormon temple in Hawaii (postcard)
  • 6-9: Unidentified
  • 10: Jack and Marion Gardner
  • 11: Aloha Day celebrations (postcard)
  • 12: Diamond Head (postcard)
  • 13: Waikiki Luau (postcard)
  • 14: Blow Hole on windward Oahu (postcard)
1956
5 7
Guatemala
  • 1: Marketplace
  • 2: President of Guatemala
  • 3: Wash house near Antigua
  • 4: Playing field
  • 5: Mock-up of Guatemala
5 8
Movie Stars: Robert Redford
  • 1: Robert Redford at Reno, Nevada
  • 2: Opening of A Downhill Racer, Robert Redford, Reno, Nevada
  • 3: Hack Miller at Reno Premiere of A Downhill Racer
  • 4: Premiere marque
5 9
Movie Set: ASargent 3"/Kanab, Utah
  • 1: Jack Reddish
  • 2-3: Kanab, Utah
  • 4: Cedar City movie set
5 10
Les Goates Retirement
  • 1-10: Les Goats and others at his Retirement banquet
5 11
Worlds Fair: Seattle
  • 1-20: Scenes from Worlds Fair in Seattle, 1962
1962
5 12
Deseret News Photographs
  • 1-3: Deseret News Personnel
  • 4: About 1939, Frank Winn, Earl Borg, Lee Eddy, Henry Smith, Laurie Johnston, Homer Anderson, Parry Sorensen, Jay Bywater, George Sutherland, Sterling, Paul, Les Goats, Con Harrison, Mel Dorius, Theron Liddle, Milt Jacob, Wilby Durham, Dorothy Watkiss, Jim Hoagland, John Talmage, Len Ferguson, Gladys Hobbs, Howard Pearson, Mack Corbett, Dave Robinson, Jim Lanton
  • 5: Philippines, 1966
  • 6: Jack Bloomfield, Osaka, Japan
  • 7: Bloomfield
5 13
Miscellaneous
  • 1-3: Granite High School reunion
  • 4: Two Hack Miller's
  • 5: Irkutsk's Civic Center in the heart of Siberia
  • 6: Russian youth
  • 7: lake Baikal in central Siberia
  • 8: St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev
  • 9: China cave
  • 10-12: Contact sheets
  • 13-14: Dr. Russell Frazier
  • 15: Bilsinger, Reddington, Burminghan, Dr. Frazier
  • 16-17: Unidentified
  • 18: Mayor of Southampton
  • 19: Welcome sign to Bridger Wilderness Area

Negatives/Color Transparencies/Contact PrintsReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 6

  • 60 negatives

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
6 1
General images
  • 1: Alta 1965, F.C. Koziol, Lowell Thomas Sr., Hack Miller, Lowell Thomas Jr. (1 neg)
  • 2: 1965, Olympians, Gretchen Fraser and Miggs Durance at Alta (2 negs)
  • 3: 1965 at Alta, Gretchen Fraser, Don Fraser, Miggs Durance, Dick Durance (6 negs)
  • 4: 1970 at Alta, Otto Lang, Alf Engen, Hack Miller (2 negs)
  • 5: Alf Engen, Otto Lang (3 negs)
  • 6: Lowell Thomas Jr. and Sr., Gretchen and Don Fraser, F.C. Koziol, Alf Engen, Miggs Durance, Dick Durance (11 negs)
  • 7: 1965 at Alta, Lowell Thomas Jr. and Sr., Chic Morton, Dick Durance, Margaret Durance (12 negs, 3 contact prints)
  • 8: 1926 at Alta, Lowell Thomas and Olympians (11 negs, 2 contact prints)
  • 9: 1970, 1978 at Alta, Lowell Thomas and Stein Erikson (7 negs)
  • 10: May 1, 1970, Lowell Thomas at 78 years with Alf and Sverre Engen (10 negs)
  • 11: 1969 at Alta, Lowell Thomas starting race (6 negs)
  • 12: December 29, 1975, Lowell Thomas and Ray Johnson at Park City (3 negs)
  • 13: March 23, 1978, Otto Lang (1 neg)
  • 14: 1975, Lowell Thomas (4 negs)
  • 15: 1970, Park City, Lowell Thomas and Roger Haran (4 negs)
  • 16: 1974 at Snowbird, Lowell Thomas age 82, Ted Johnson, Larry Elliott (6 negs)
  • 17: 1960 at Alta, Lowell Thomas, Jack, Gladys Sawyer/On way to Squaw Valley Olympics/Lots of Snow/Lowell in a heap (32 negs)
  • 18: 1972 at Alta, Lowell Thomas with Dick Bass, hack Miller and Alf Engen (14 negs)
  • 19: 1964, Lowell Thomas skiing through slalom course at Treasure Mountains (8 negs)
  • 20: 1979 at Snow Basin, Lowell Thomas and Pete Seibert (4 negs/color)
  • 21: 1947, Lowell Thoms, SL Ad Club (2 negs)
  • 22: Lowell Thomas at age 89 with Mariana cross-country at Park City (5 negs)
  • 23: 1964, Lowell Thomas with friends (16 negs)
  • 24: 1962, Lowell Thomas skiing with friends including Alf Engen and Hack Miller (15 negs)
  • 25: 1963, Lowell Thomas at Alta, Alf Engen (11 negs)
  • 26: 1966, Lowell Thomas with friends (12 negs)
  • 27: 1967, Lowell Thomas, Avalanche time at Alta, picking a safe course (8 negs)
  • 28: 1976 at Alta, Lowell Thomas with friends (6 negs)
  • 29: 1965 at Alta, Lowell Thomas, Alf Engen, Gretchen Fraser, Margaret Durance (12 negs/4 contact prints)
  • 30: February 1978, Lowell Thomas and Hack Miller (1 neg/1 color slide)
  • 31: March 1969, Yellowstone, Lowell Thomas, Mote Wright and others (48 negs)
  • 32: 1968, Grenoble Olympics, opening ceremonies (40 negs)
  • 33: September 1959, Squaw Valley, Olympic facilities under construction (12 negs)
  • 34: 1970 at Alta, Lowell Thomas and other, Alf Engen (2 negs)
  • 35: February 1977 or 1976, Lowell Thomas and others skiing (9 negs/2 color trans)
  • 36: May 7, 1968, Alf Engen and Lowell Thomas skiing (4 negs)
  • 37: 1975 at Alta, Lowell Thomas Jr. and Sr. with F. Koziol/Lowell with Hack Miller/Lowell with Chic Morton/Lowell with Alta Group (8 negs)
  • 38: Park City, Warren King, Woody Anderson, Willie Schaefler (4 color trans)
  • 39: George Von Elm (3 negs)
  • 40: Dr. Frazier (1 neg)
  • 41: Grenoble Olympics (12 negs)
  • 42: 1969, John Fawcett, Denis Julian in Duchesne/1937, Frazier and Broadus (6 negs)
  • 43: Yampa River Expedition, Kelly, Frazier, Broadus 93 negs)
  • 44: People proofing Indian Ruins (48 negs)
  • 45: Lawrence of Arabia, Lowell Thomas at Petra (4 negs)
  • 46: Vietnam, Yorktown, Red Gilmore (12 negs)
  • 47: 1965, Vietnam, first trip (31 negs)
  • 48: 1962, Seattle, Wolds Fair (41 negs)
  • 49: 1962, Seattle, Worlds Fair (29 negs)
  • 50: November 24, 1969, Natalie Wood (1 neg)
  • 51: Guatemala (12 color trans)
  • 52: Guatemala (13 color trans)
  • 53: 1966, on way to Vietnam, President Marcos, Philippines (14 contact prints)
  • 54: Von Drimmelen and Saigon from Air (6 negs)
  • 55: Bon Homme (12 negs)
  • 56: Danong (12 negs)
  • 57: Airplane at Danong (36 negs)
  • 58: Hong Kong, Taiwan (11 negs)
  • 59: Bombing raid with Frank Varley (12 negs)
  • 60: Saigon (16 negs)

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Container(s) Description
Box Folder
7 1
General images
  • 1-2: Gene Fullmer, boxing (photographs)
  • 3: Jack Nicholas (color trans)

General ImagesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
8 1
Hack Miller, Lowell Thomas, and Bernie Fisher
8 2
Fishing
8 3
Willis Johnson, Lynn Hanson, and Hack Miller Middle Fork Mines and Fishing
8 4
(Labeled "Keepers") Govenor J. Bracken Lee, Amythst Lake
8 5
Steelhead - Several Trips
8 6
Cisco Run Ice Pictures Bear Lake
8 7
World Record Brown Trout 1975 Chuck Keefer Negatives
8 8
World Record Brown Trout 1975 Chuck Keefer Story
8 9
Fish Lake History
8 10
Dutch John Before the Dam
8 11
Mercury Boat Show at Grand Bahama Hotel, Lake X in Florida, Silversprings, Florida
8 12
Golf
8 13
Boxing
8 14
Salt Lake and Japanese Baseball
8 15
University of Utah Coach Jack Curtice (Football)
8 16
Manti Elk Hunt with Ed Cliff
8 17
Elk Hunt on Pistol Creek
8 18
Cougar and Coyote Hunts
8 19
Lanscapes and Locations
8 20
Travel
8 21
King Hasson II and Cabrilla
8 22
Feature Story, Island?
8 23
Flying, AA Bennett, Middle Fork 1947
8 24
Ekkers of Hanksville and Echo Reservior
8 25
Evel Knievel, Snake River Jump
8 26
Apollo 14

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Subject Terms

  • Hunting--Utah--History--Photographs
  • Rivers--West (U.S.)--Recreational use--Photographs
  • Skis and skiing--Utah--History--Photographs
  • Sports--Utah--History--Photographs