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Ian and Joan Brown, Western Ski Promotions - Photographs
This collection was given to Lowell Skoog in 2011 by Rob Brown, son of Ian and Joan Brown. The Browns published Northwest Skier magazine from the 1960s to 1990s and organized annual ski shows in Seattle. Each of the nine boxes is about two cubic feet. Another, smaller collection was donated to UW Special Collections by the Browns in 2015. (See notes here.)

This index describes what I actually found in the Brown/WSP archive boxes. I checked the older Brown photo file index (hard-copy and PDF file) as needed for verification or identification when a photo itself was ambiguous. I found many mispelled names in the older Brown index and generally used what was written on the photos instead.

In this index, the following annotation is used (after the file number) to differentiate subject categories for easier browsing and text searching:

": " (colon-space) indicates a person
":-" (colon-hyphen) indicates a place
":+" (colon-plus) indicates other subjects

In file folders that contain multiple subjects, I've carefully sorted the contents in numerical order. This makes it much quicker to locate a desired topic within the folder. Anyone working with the collection is advised to preserve this order.

For photos containing several people, I've generally followed the example of the original Brown index and named the central or most prominent person in the photo, for the purposes of this index. In retrospect, I wish I had included more names. For example, Bob Cram is pictured in several photos that are filed under the name of the person Bob was interviewing. I wish I'd noted Bob in the index for these pictures as well.

Box 1

Box 2

Box 3

Box 4

Box 5

Box 6

This box contains many folders filled with negatives and/or contact sheets. I haven't reviewed them in detail. I think many (most?) of the negatives correspond to numbered prints in this collection.

Box 7

Unlike previous boxes, this one does not contain numbered file folders. Contents:

Box 8

This box contains older indexes for this collection created by the Browns, as well as a newer index created by Lowell Skoog in October 2018. There is also an envelope with a DVD of scans made by Kirby Gilbert in 2014. Additional scans by Lowell Skoog have not been included here.

Negatives, contact sheets, and 3x5 prints:

Box 9

This box contains many negatives, slides and prints, not organized. It's possible that negatives for some of the prints in the main collection are here, but I haven't verified that. Some of these materials are in the original mailing boxes or envelopes. Subjects include (but not limited to):

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