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The California Ski Library is...

A unique collection of books, magazines, photographs, and ephemera related to all facets and disciplines of skiing.The Library provides access to rare, unusual, and one-of-a-kind historical memorabilia to the general public by appointment.
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Our mission:

Acquire historically significant material pertaining to skiing in the U.S., especially the West.

Process, preserve, and catalog the materials.

Provide public access to all researchers, journalists, students, and others interested in skiing history.

If you need to know more about skiing history, written or visual, you’ve found the right place.

Our collection is one of the most extensive collections of ski books, magazines, photographs, and paper memorabilia in the United States.

The substantial photograph collection includes a vast and broad range of photographs of American skiing from the 1930s to 2000s, including photographs of Sun Valley, Idaho, Aspen, Colorado, Squaw Valley Winter Olympics, Mammoth Mountain, Yosemite, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, and many California ski areas, large and small.

A few of the collection's highlights

	The skis Muir Dawson used to win the San Gorgonio Downhill ski race, a race he won more than any other skier.
	A life-sized bust of Andrea Mead Lawrence.
	Color print by Phil Dike of the Los Angeles County Fair Ski Jump.
	Original blueprint of the proposed ski lifts on San Gorgonio.
	Glen Dawson’s first place trophy for a unique male-female team race he won in Germany in 1936. The story of this race is vividly retold in the 1936 British Ski Annual.