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Afternoon ticket for the Tin Lizzie T-bar, valid after 12:30 p.m., with the wire wicket used to fasten it to a jacket zipper.

Fifty-cent day ticket for the Harlow Ski Club rope tow, numbered by hand. Skiers wore the stub on a coat button. The tow ran on Saturdays, Sundays and school holidays, when there was enough snow and someone to run the Model A engine.

Front-page story from the Harlow Herald announcing that the 1993–94 season would be the last. It cites three thin winters in five years, the cost of replacing the Silver Spoon chair and competition from larger resorts, and quotes general manager Walt Hedges and lift operator Ray Albright.

Large-letter postcard sold at the lodge and at the Harlow drugstore. Each letter of TINCUP frames a piece of the mountain, with skiers on the lower trails.

Nine trails with difficulty symbols, the Prospector chair to North Knob (1971), the Tincup Chute and the lit night-skiing area. This was the last map printed before the ski area closed.

The first painted trail map, issued after the Silver Spoon chair opened. It shows six trails cut through the timber, the Silver Spoon and the Tin Lizzie T-bar, and the Tincup Lodge. The rope tow had been retired.

Hand-drawn map of the three trails of 1946 (Lindqvist Run, Big Dipper and Schoolmarm), the rope tow and the climbing track to the summit. Arne Lindqvist surveyed and drew it, and the club sold copies at the warming hut for a nickel.

Farewell poster handed out on the last day of skiing, Sunday, March 27, 1994, and signed by many of the staff. A single empty chair hangs on the Silver Spoon cable at dusk.

Printed in February 1985, when the season's snowfall passed 400 inches, the most in the hill's history. The Big Winter of 1984–85 ended with 412 inches. Lists the three chairlifts and the T-bar running that season.

Night skiing began on December 26, 1969, with forty lamps along Lindqvist Run and Spoonful. This poster for the 1970–71 season advertised four nights a week on the Silver Spoon chair. Its psychedelic stripes made it the most stolen poster in Harlow.

Poster for the opening of the Silver Spoon, the hill's first chairlift: 3,400 feet from the lodge to Tincup Peak in nine minutes. The chair was dedicated on December 14, 1963. Designed in the Swiss style by Joan Pike, a graphic designer from Boise.

Announces the Tin Lizzie T-bar, 2,100 feet long, built by the new Tincup Lodge Corporation in the summer of 1952 and nicknamed for its tin-roofed drive shed. Hal Brenner's last poster for the hill.

Poster for the 1948–49 season, the club's first full season after the war, when returning servicemen who had trained as ski troops joined the ski school. It shows the log warming hut at the foot of the rope tow. That winter brought the Big Snow of January 1949.

The Harlow Ski Club's first poster, printed for the 1939–40 season, the second winter of the rope tow. A red-capped skier in a tuck crosses the foot of Tincup Mountain under an Art Deco sunburst. The club printed 200 copies; they were posted in Harlow and in railroad depots along the Union Pacific line.

Two-time Tincup Cup winner and member of the Tincup Ski Patrol, 1977–1994 (fictional).

Lift operator on the Silver Spoon chair from its opening day in 1963 to the last day in 1994 (fictional).

Director of the Tincup Ski School, 1962–1989 (fictional).

Harlow sign painter who designed the ski club's early posters (fictional).

Proprietress of the Tincup Lodge kitchen, 1952–1971, and originator of its cinnamon rolls (fictional).

Founder of the Harlow Ski Club and of skiing on Tincup Mountain (fictional).