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In 1950, the Park City High School Band headed to San Francisco to play in the Shriners East-West Football game.

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

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

Going Places

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

The National Archives Experience

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

Silver King Headframe

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

On a guided hike with Hal

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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

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

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

Go Figure!

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

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

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Book card in the Park City Library

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Raffle

2.10-Invite

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

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

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

Crossing the Border

Highline spur during the winter

The Way We Worked

Thaynes Headframe

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

Test your flexibility!

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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.

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

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

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Raffle

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Muckers and Millionaires Case

In Cahoots

2018-Ornament

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

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

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

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Barn-Postcard

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

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.

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Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

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

Park City Museum

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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

December 28, 2011

Crossing the Border

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

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.

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

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

December 28, 2011

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

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

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

Halloween at the Glenwood

Test your flexibility!

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

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

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.

NEH on the Road

Going Places

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

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

National Constitution Center

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

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

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