UUM_P1306.xml Guide to the Marthinius A. Strand photograph Strand (Marthinius A.) photograph Finding aid created by Ashley Arave J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-11-20. Finding aid encoded in English in Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. 2022 Finding aid revised and re-encoded by Sara Davis. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Marthinius A. Strand photograph P1306 .2 linear feet 1 archival box 1 image circa 1930s The Marthinius A. Strand photograph collection is one image of him in his Utah Ski Club sweater on the out run of a jumping hill. English .

Marthinius Strand (1887 - 1965)

Marthinius (Mark or M.A.) Strand has been recognized as the "father of organized skiing". He established the first ski club in the Intermountain Region – the Norwegian Young Folks Society in 1915, the same year he staged the first ski jumping tournament in the region. It was the forerunner for numerous Strand-promoted world-class jumping competitions in the1920s and 1930s that attracted more than 10,000 spectators to Ecker Hill.

Strand helped organize the Intermountain Ski Association and was its historian for many years. Later he became vice president and then honorary director for life of the National Ski Association of America (now the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association). In 1939 he was one of three men who envisioned a ski lift at Alta's Collins Gulch, a vision that resulted in his building the first chairlift in Utah. He was a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee in 1932 and 1952 and in 1931, 1952, 1954 and 1962 was the U.S. representative at World Ski Congress in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a ski jumping official for national collegiate and National Ski Association tournaments as well as a board member of the National Ski Association National Ski Museum. When he was inducted into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1959 he was called "the foremost man in the Intermountain Ski world."

Strand immigrated to the United States from Norway in 1910 at age of 23. A skilled gun-maker, M.A. was an electrical engineer and founded Strand Electric Company in Salt Lake City in 1924.

Strand was inducted into the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame in 2006. The above biograpical note is from that event.

The collection consists of one photograph of Marthinius "Mark" A. Strand, a ski pioneer in the early days of Utah skiing.

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Initial Citation: Marthinius A. Strand photograph collection, P1306, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations: P1306.

Donated by the University of Utah Alumni House.

Processed by Ashley Arave in 2006.

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

Skis and skiing--Utah--History--Photographs Sports and Recreation Photographs General images 1 1 1: Marthinius A. Strand