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D745-61
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- 1937-04 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Eleven years before she made history at the 1948 Winter Olympics, Gretchen Kunigk (later Fraser) was the skiing double for Sonja Henie. This photograph, taken in 1937, shows Miss Kunigk in costume for the filming of "Thin Ice" at Paradise Inn on Mount Rainier. Years later, as Gretcher Fraser, she was the first skier from the United States, man or woman, to win a gold medal in an Alpine event in the Olympics. (T. Times 4/5/1937 p.3)
Fraser, Gretchen Kunigk, 1919-1994; Skiers--Tacoma--1940-1950; Motion picture industry--Tacoma;