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In 1950, the Park City High School Band performed in the Shriners East-West Football Game Halftime Show.

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

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Thaynes Headframe

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

In Cahoots

The Way We Worked

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

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

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

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

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

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PCHS Band, 1950

Crossing the Border

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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.

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

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

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

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

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

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

Book card in the Park City Library

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

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

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Going Places

Test your flexibility!

The National Archives Experience

NEH on the Road

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

Silver King Headframe

Crossing the Border

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Test your flexibility!

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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Make your own sock-puppet.

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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

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.

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On a guided hike with Hal

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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

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

Go Figure!

National Constitution Center

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Park City Museum

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

December 28, 2011

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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

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.

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

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

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Going Places

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

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Highline spur during the winter

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

December 28, 2011

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

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

2018-Ornament

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.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

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