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In 1950, the Park City High School Band headed to San Francisco to perform as the feature band in the Shriners East-West Football Game.

Gallery

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Lakewood Plaza, outdoor living space. Long Beach, Calif., 1950s. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

artist known as “Army,” Organized Crime—Oklahoma City, 1940; 12 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches, ink on paper; Courtesy of University of Central Oklahoma Galleries and Collections.

Make sure to stop by every couple months to see what’s new in the Changing Gallery!

Model of the Coalition Building and Silver King Aerial Tramway in the Park City Museum

Crossing the Border

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

Bonnie (Witch), Noah (Renaissance Man), and Ron (Mother Urban) enjoy the evening

Members enjoying the infamous Dungeon Party. Click for more images.

Wedding party at Utah Central Depot. October 30, 1900.

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Test your flexibility!

Climb on board the skier subway and learn about its history.

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Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

Park City Museum

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Museum member Don Covert enjoys one of our popular ski tours.

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Silver-to-Snow

Book card in the Park City Library

Marine Ricky Sorenson at the soda fountain after coming home from war.

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

A bracero with a short-handled hoe over his shoulder stands in a California field.

Learn how to make a book at the Park City Museum.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

In preparation of a camping trip in 1956, these Boy Scouts load gear into a trunk.

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Dodo poses on Sam Billings’ (left) motorcycle with Ephraim Adamson (right). Pop Jenks Collection

John Vachon, Man mowing lawn, Grundy Center, Iowa, 1940, black-and-white photograph, courtesy Library of Congress.

Derelict fishing gear, plastic bottles, and marine debris, Maug Island, Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, 2009. Image courtesy of Angelo Villagomez/Marine Photobank.

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

• John Vachon, Man mowing lawn, Grundy Center, Iowa, 1940, black-and-white photograph, courtesy Library of Congress.

Belly up to the bar and learn why the bar was more than a place to wet your whistle.

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

A bracero with a short-handled hoe over his shoulder stands in a California field.

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Go Figure!

Learn about this 1926 Graham Bros Dodge and the generations of Berrys who served the Park City Fire Department.

Jacob A. Riis, “I Scrubs” – Little Katie from the West 52nd Street Industrial School, 1891-1892; reproduction on modern gelatin printing out paper, original 4 x 5 inches; From the Collection of the Museum of the City of New York, 90.13.4.132.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

NEH on the Road

Stop by to see what’s new in the Changing Gallery!

Wedding party at Utah Central Depot. October 30, 1900.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

PCHS Band, 1950

Wedding party at the Utah Central Railroad Depot. October 30, 1900.

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Coffee cherries being loaded onto a truck (Herbazu, Costa Rica), photograph by D. Major Cohen.

The Kimball Stagecoach delivered mail-and passengers when it had room-to Park City.

Silver King Headframe

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

Students enjoy a break in the Skier Subway after their tour.

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Test your flexibility!

Irene Ruhnke, 2007 reproduction of 1946 original, Photograph, Image: 12 x 8, Private collection.

401 Park Avenue. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Thomas F. Hansen Collection, made possible by a gift from Peter and Gail Ochs

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

PCHS Band, 1950

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

UT Office of Tourism, Zions Bank, KUER, KRCL, Eccles Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Federation of State Humanities Councils

Park City miner Jim Santy explains the hoist during a 2nd grade tour.

The National Archives Experience

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Raffle

Share the joy of math with children (Bigstock/SerrNovik)

The Way We Worked

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

Muckers and Millionaires Case

George Catlin, North American Indians, 1844, hand-colored lithograph, 25 x 21, private collection. Photo: E.G. Schempf.

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

Stop by to see what’s new in the Changing Gallery!

National Constitution Center

Barn-Postcard

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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Step back in time: make sure you stay on the right side of the law!

Thaynes Headframe

Museum member Don Covert enjoys one of our popular ski tours.

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On a guided hike with Hal

Dodo poses on Sam Billings’ (left) motorcycle with Ephraim Adamson (right). Pop Jenks Collection

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Why did writing a newspaper article in a tent make the front page in 1898? Find out on the mezzanine level!

New Harmonies Park City Local Sponors — PC Library, Egyptian Theatre, Mountain Town Music, Deer Valley Music Festival, Done to Your Taste, Summit County

Wasatch Coal Mine, Chalk Creek (near Coalville) dated 1908 Credit: Summit County Historical Museum

Students learn about the 1898 fire by looking at historic photographs.

Make your own sock-puppet.

Korean War: Men of the 5th Air Force receive donated books and periodicals sent in the mail, 1951. Courtesy National Archives

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Park City Museum New Harmonies Exhibit — Photos by Jim Herrington/www.jimherrington.com and Philip Gould

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

The Silver Queen made millions in Park City’s mines.

Museum-Art

Fell down a shaft; died of a broken heart; accidentally shot. Who says life in the old West was a bowl of cherries?

Going Places

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Bonnie (Witch), Noah (Renaissance Man), and Ron (Mother Urban) enjoy the evening

Brenda Biondo, Miracle Lifetime Whirl, Hudson, CO, 2011; colorphotograph, 28 1/2 x 20 inches; Courtesy of the artist.

Highline spur during the winter

View over 100 aprons in our newest traveling exhibit, Apron Chronicles.

Map by William Henry Jackson, 1861. Courtesy the Library of Congress.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Irene Ruhnke, 2007 reproduction of 1946 original, Photograph, Image: 12 x 8, Private collection.

Utah Humanities Council

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Just as in the early days, no one wears an apron to Club, although at a recent FCE convention, there was a program on aprons, and we all wore ours and participated in an apron parade. The styles reminded us of how much has changed for country women, but the apron and its strings still draw the family together, and home life will always be our first and highest priority. ©EllynAnne Geisel

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz enjoy the Dungeon Party.

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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Postcard, “Entrance to Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y.” c. 1914. 4 x 6 in. Published by the American Art Publishing Co., New York. Private Collection.

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December 28, 2011

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Going Places

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II was developed by the National Museum of American History and adapted for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The national tour received federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Terasaki Family Foundation, and C. L. Ehn & Ginger Lew.

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Halloween at the Glenwood

Map by William Henry Jackson, 1861. Courtesy the Library of Congress.

Fell down a shaft; died of a broken heart; accidentally shot. Who says life in the old West was a bowl of cherries?

Park City’s Historic Main Street. Click for more images.

Bison skull, c. 2009, bone, courtesy Smoky Hill Bison Ranch.

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

Wedding party at the Utah Central Depot. October 30, 1900.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Crossing the Border

Learn about the 1926 Graham Brothers Dodge and the generations of Berrys who served the Park City Fire Department.

In Cahoots

Drop by the Smith & Brim and learn about some of the eating habits of early Parkites.

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

2018-Ornament

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

The Kimball Stagecoach delivered mail–and passengers when it had room–to Park City.

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