Karen Huntoon Miller photograph collection, circa 1970-1989
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Miller, Karen Huntoon, 1949-
- Title
- Karen Huntoon Miller photograph collection
- Dates
- circa 1970-1989 (inclusive)19701989
- Quantity
- 2 box
- Collection Number
- P0921
- Summary
- The Karen Huntoon Miller photograph collection consists of images and slides of Karen Miller and associates skiing.
- Repository
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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
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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
Biographical Note
Karen Huntoon-Miller (1949 - )
Even though she was born in the flatlands of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Karen Huntoon-Miller helped elevate the fledgling sport of mogul freestyle skiing from its "hot dogging" status in the 1970s to an art form that became a popular staple of World Cup and Olympic Winter Games competitions.
Skiing from age two, Karen nurtured her freestyle skiing passion in Rutland, Vermont where the bumpy natural terrain allowed her to improvise tricks, jumps and turns. From 1974 through 1980 she became a five-time World Mogul Champion. In 1975 she stepped to the top of the podium when she was Women's World Cup Overall Champion.
A Park City resident since 1973, Karen helped the image of her sport soar even higher between 1975 and 1978 when she appeared in two Warren Miller ski movie specials, in three "ABC Wide World of Sports" programs and in a "CBS Sports Spectacular" program. She also appeared as a stuntwoman on a Universal Studios' film, "The Return of Maxwell Smart."
With an unbending dedication to her sport, her daring-do pioneering spirit and with her world championship performances, Karen Huntoon Miller permanently instilled the thrill and beauty of mogul freestyle skiing into the psyche of the sports world.
Karen was inducted into the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame in 2015. The above biograpical note is from that event.
Content Description
Karen Huntoon Miller was a freestyle skier sponsored by Colgate during the 1970s and early 1980s. This collection contains images of Miller and her associates skiing in a variety of competitions, receiving awards, and working at summer training camps. Few of the images are identified. For further information and the papers of Karen Huntoon Miller, see Manuscript Accn 1921.
The The Karen Huntoon Miller photograph collection is digitized.
Use of the Collection
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 Information
Arrangement
Collection is arranged topically.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Karen Huntoon Miller.
Separated Materials
See also the Karen Huntoon Miller papers (ACCN 1921) located in the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections.
Processing Note
Processed by Mary Ann Curtis and Jamie Colton in 2001.
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Related Materials
Forms part of the Ski and Snow Sports Archives (S.J. Quinney Outdoor Recreation Archives).
Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Description: Karen H. Miller at the Freestyle World Trophy Tour
- 1: Deano Dudnak, Karen Huntoon and the Stratter Vermont officials
- 3-4: Karen Huntoon Miller at the Freestyle World Trophy Tour
- 5-6: Portrait of Karen H. Miller. Photos by Leblond.
Dates: 1974Container: Box 1, Folder 1 -
Description: Karen H. Miller Skiing
- 1-13: Karen H. Miller skiing
- 14: Karen Huntoon (skiing) and Suzy Chaffer (standing on the in-run)
- 15: Karen H. Miller skiing
- 16: Left to Right: Goggles Nobeb, Sandra Poulsen, Suzy Chaffer, Karen Huntoon, three unidentified, and Marion Post.
- 17-20: Karen H. Miller skiing
- 21: Karen Huntoon and Chris Hannah (Solomon Rep)
- 22-27: Karen H. Miller skiing
Container: Box 1, Folder 2 -
Description: Karen H. Miller Skiing
- 1-2: Karen H. Miller skiing. Photo by Craig Reece of Park City.
- 3-8: Karen H. Miller skiing
- 9: Karen H. Miller skiing. Photo by Scott Nelson Photography, Inc. of Park City.
- 10: Karen H. Miller skiing
- 11: Karen H. Miller skiing at John Clendenir's mogul enduro in California. Photo by Colt Graphics.
- 12-15: Karen H. Miller skiing
- 16: Karen H. Miller skiing with the Airborne Eddies, 1978
- 17: Karen H. Miller at the Airborne Eddies demonstrating a quiet upper body by delivering drinks on skis, 1978.
- 18: Karen Huntoon teaching a mogul class at Eddie Ferguson Summer Ski Camp, 1978. Eddie Ferguson standing nearby wearing a yellow shirt.
- 19-35: Proof sheet of portraits of Karen H. Miller
- 36-67: Proof sheet of images of Karen H. Miller skiing
Container: Box 1, Folder 3 -
Description: Karen H. Miller with Others and Receiving Awards
- 1: Bob Salerno, Frank Bean (sitting with K2 skis), Jeff Chuma (wearing yellow holding skis), Ed Lincoln (blond hair), Frank Bedore (wearing blue and red sweater), Karen Huntoon (wearing yellow and holding skis), and others.
- 2-3: Karen H. Miller with unidentified others.
- 5: Left to Right: unidentified, Ellen Post, Tisha Green, Mauir Post, Pat Karnick, Chris Hanna, Karen Huntoon, Sardia Poulson (?), Joanie Lincoln, Cuzy Chaffer, Genya Fuller, and Pat Doudra.
- 6: Karen H. Miller, Kathy Brock, Leslie Piscitto, and Pat Whitcomb, members of the Sun Valley Freestyle Team. Photo by Norris Clark for the Sun Valley News Bureau.
- 7: Suzy Chaffer, Karen Huntoon and Penelope Street standing on an awards platform.
- 8: Karen H. Miller with other skiers holding awards.
- 9: Bob Theobald teaching Karen Huntoon how to ski on a ski ramp at the Salt Lake Ski Show. Karen was chosen at random from the audience.
- 10: Susie Corrack, Karen Huntoon Miller and Genyo Fuller receiving awards at the National Freestyle Championships.
Container: Box 1, Folder 4 -
Description: Unidentified Skiers competing in the Italian Alps
- 1: Suzy Chaffer
- 2-4: Unidentified Skiers
- 5: Ed Ferguson
- 6: John Clerdenir
- 7: Jack Taylor of Steamboat Springs, CO, mogul champion
- 8-9: Unidentified Skiers
- 10: Bob Salerno (?)
- 11: Unidentified Skiers
- 12: Frank Bare of Salt Lake City, UT
- 13: Unidentified Skiers
- 14: Joanie Lincoln
- 15: Unidentified Skiers
- 16: Ed Ferguson (?)
- 17: Unidentified Skiers.
- 18: Ed Ferguson
- 19: Penelope Street.
- 20: Unidentified skiers
- 21: Ed Ferguson and Joanie Lincoln
- 22: Ed Ferguson
- 23-24: Penelope Street
- 25: Karen Huntoon and Penelope Street
- 26-31: Unidentified Skiers
- 32-33: Ed Ferguson in France at the Airborne Eddies Freestyle Camp, 1973-1974.
- 34-35: Karen Huntoon
- 36: Karen Huntoon and Penelope Street
- 37: Penelope Street, Ed Ferguson and Karen Huntoon
- 38: Ed Ferguson
- 39-40: Unidentified skiers
Container: Box 1, Folder 5 -
Description: Unidentified Skiers
- 1: George (?)
- 2-3: Unidentified skiers
- 4-5: Eddie Ferguson at the Airborne Eddies Freestyle Camp in France, 1974-1975.
- 6: Eric Sampson at the Airborne Eddies camp being observed by Bob Salerno, 1978.
- 7: Robert Young at the Airborne Eddies camp, 1978
- 8: Mark Archibald at the Airborne Eddies camp, 1978
- 9: Stu O'Brien at the Airborne Eddies camp, 1978
Container: Box 1, Folder 6 -
Description: Building a Freestyle Jump
- 1: Unidentified man building a ski jump
- 2: Don Meeks building a ski jump
- 3: Mike Shea building a ski jump
- 4: Unidentified men building a ski jump
Container: Box 1, Folder 7 -
Description: Ferguson Summer Camp
- 1-2: people in the parking lot
- 3: Doug Coleman, unidentified student and Bob Salerno
- 4: Bob Salerno helping a student land a jump
- 5: Airborne Eddies Summer Camp
- 7-10: Students at the Airborne Eddies Freestyle Summer Camp
Dates: 1975Container: Box 1, Folder 8 -
Description: Snowbird Competition
- 1-4: Unidentified ski competitors
- 5-7: Karen Huntoon competing at Snowbird
- 8: Unidentified ski competitors
- 9: Finish line of the Coors Snowbird competition
- 10-11: Karen Huntoon competing at Snowbird
- 12: Dual mogul course at the Subaru Coors competition at Snowbird
- 13: Unidentified ski competitors
- 14-18: Karen Huntoon competing at Snowbird
- 19: Greta O'Brien and Karen Huntoon
- 20-22: Unidentified ski competitors
- 23: Karen Huntoon competing at Snowbird
- 24-25: Unidentified ski competitors
- 26-34: Karen Huntoon competing at Snowbird
Dates: 1983Container: Box 1, Folder 9 -
Description: Unidentified Competition
- 1-4: Karen Huntoon Miller and other unidentified skiers competing, 1983.
- 5: Stanley Larsen
- 6-9: Karen Huntoon Miller and other unidentified skiers competing, 1983.
Dates: 1983Container: Box 1, Folder 10 -
Description: Airborne Eddies Freestyle Ski Camp at Sunshine Village (Banff)
- 1-4: Big horn sheep seen on the way to the Airborne Eddies Freestyle Camp in Sunshine Village, Canada.
- 5-23: Sunshine Village
- 24: Students performing training jumps at the Airborne Eddies Freestyle Ski Camp at Sunshine Village.
- 25-26: Banff Springs Hotel, Canada
- 27: Eddie Ferguson wearing a blue and red sweater and white gloves at the Airborne Eddies Freestyle Ski Camp at Sunshine Village.
- 28-29: Students at the Airborne Eddies Freestyle Ski Camp at Sunshine Village.
- 30: Stu O'Brien wearing a black and white shirt and sunglasses coaching students at the Airborne Eddies Freestyle Ski Camp at Sunshine Village.
- 31-37: Students at the Airborne Eddies Freestyle Ski Camp at Sunshine Village.
Container: Box 1, Folder 11 -
Description: Unidentified Slides
- 1-10: Karen Huntoon Miller skiing and receiving awards
- 11: Deano Dudnak and Karen Huntoon
- 13: Katie Morning wearing bib
- 14: Dual moguls, Karen Huntoon on right
- 15-16: Karen Huntoon
- 19-21: Karen Huntoon
- 22: John Clindenir (left) and Ed Ferguson
- 23: Karen Huntoon
- 24-25: Karen Huntoon in costume
- 26-30: Sunsets by Susan Huff
- 31: Dog
- 32: Karen Huntoon's dog Pluto
- 33-35: Dogs
Container: Box 1, Folder 12 -
Description: Unidentified Negatives
- 1-48: Unidentified negatives of skiers
Container: Box 1, Folder 13 -
Description: Addendum
- 1: Genia Fuller
- 2: Suzy Chaffer
- 3: Karen Huntoon
- 4: Marion Post
- 5: Patricia Karnik
- 6: Ellen post
- 7: Pat Doudra
- 8: Unidentified
- 9: Kathy Brock
- 10: Penelope Street
Container: Box 1, Folder 14 -
Description: 1973
- 1: houses
- 2: unidentified man and a dog
- 3: Karen, unidentified man (probably husband) and the dog
- 4: looking out over a snow covered valley
- 5: Karen
- 6: dogs
- 7: people and dogs on a riverbank
Container: Box 1, Folder 15 -
Description: Hiram J. Huntoon
- 1: Hiram Huntoon jumping over his poles
Container: Box 1, Folder 16, digital only -
Description: Karen Skiing, see folder 3 proofs for some of these images.
- 1--16: Karen Huntoon Miller Skiiing
Container: Box 1, Folder 17, digital only -
Description: Karen at Colgate race
- 1-2: Karen in ski gear before and after the race
Container: Box 1, Folder 18, digital only -
Description: newspapers and articles
- 1-57: newspapers, articles, and other ephemera related to Karen Huntoon Miller. There is no number 8 (8 was acutally the back of number 7 and changed to 7b, there is also no number 27-this article was disgarded as it was not related to Karen)
Container: Box 1, Folder 19, digital only -
Description: Karen
- 1: Karen in a downhill ski race
Container: Box 2, Oversize, Folder 1
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Freestyle skiing--Photographs
- Ski acrobatics--Photographs
- Ski jumping--Photographs
- Ski racing--Photographs
- Ski resorts--Alberta--Photographs
- Ski resorts--British Columbia--Photographs
- Ski resorts--Utah--Photographs
- Skis and skiing--Photographs
- Women skiers--Photographs
Personal Names
- Miller, Karen Huntoon, 1949---Photographs
Corporate Names
- Airborne Eddie Ferguson Summer Ski Camp (Alta. and B.C.)--Photographs
- Banff Sunshine Village (Alta. and B.C.)--Photographs
- Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort (Utah)--Photographs
Geographical Names
- Banff National Park (Alta.)--Photographs
Form or Genre Terms
- Color slides
- color photographs
- digital images
