Handle used on the First Motorized Ski Tow in the United States
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: maker
content: Whitney, Bill
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sears & Roebuck shovel handle with the shovel end cut off. Piece of metal is attached to the shovel end where it attached to the ski tow rope which pulled the skier up the hill.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This was used at the Black Mountain Ski area and Whitney's Village Inn in Jackson Village, New Hampshire which was the site of the first uphill motorized ski tow in the United States. According to the donor, "the tow consisted of a rope, which through a series was hooked up to an old car engine and shovels were ordered from Sears & Roebuck (and the digging portion of the shovel was cut off) and the handles and the pole of the shovel was hooked up to the rope -- skiers hung on to the handle in order to be pulled to the top of the slope."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Hampshire
label: used
content: United States: New Hampshire, Jackson
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Skiing
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: web subject
content: Invention
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Nicole and Tracey Trapp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0814.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0814
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0814.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tow handle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 50 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 3 in; 128.27 cm x 11.43 cm x 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 55 in x 100 in x 51 in; 139.7 cm x 254 cm x 129.54 cm