Antipa Family Slide Collection

Collection

Identifier: NC1397

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Scope and Contents

The Antipa Family Slide Collection includes images of the Antipa family at Palisades Tahoe following the 1960 Winter Olympic Games. Many of the images are of the facilities and spaces used to hold the then-recent Winter Olympic Games. Additionally, the collection contains a handful of images taken around Lake Tahoe, Sutro, and Virginia City, Nevada.

Dates

Creation: 1950-1967

Creator

Antipa family (Creator, Family)
Antipa, George (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for use. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Biographical / Historical

George Alexander Antipa was born in San Francisco, California in 1906. George married Edwina Antipa and had two daughters, June and Susan. June Antipa married Henry Fulton in March 1951. June and Henry later had two children, Ellen and David Fulton.

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s George and his wife, Edwina, took a number of vacations to the Sierras and the Russian River. By the 1950s and 1960s, George and Edwina, with their two daughters June and Susan, took regular trips to Lake Tahoe and Palisades Tahoe. After seeing the VIII Olympic Winter Games on television in February 1960, the family made a visit to the Palisades Tahoe [then "Squaw Valley"] Ski Resort in 1960 after the games had concluded.

Full Extent

.351 Gigabytes (28 TIFF files)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

George Alexander Antipa, his wife Edwina, and two daughters, June and Susan, frequently took trips to the Sierra Nevadas from San Francisco, California. The collection contains digital surrogates of slides of the Antipa and Fulton family members at Palisades Tahoe following the 1960 Winter Olympic Games as well as images from around Lake Tahoe, Sutro, and Virginia City, Nevada.