Atom Bomb! Here is the full story

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The Atom Bomb, 1945, paper and ink, private collection. Image: E. G. Schempf.

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

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Book card in the Park City Library

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

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

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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Make your own sock-puppet.

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

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.

Crossing the Border

Go Figure!

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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.

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

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

Utah Humanities Council

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

Test your flexibility!

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Park City Museum

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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Silver-to-Snow

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

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Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

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

Going Places

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

The National Archives Experience

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

NEH on the Road

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

On a guided hike with Hal

December 28, 2011

PCHS Band, 1950

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.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

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

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

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

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

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

Raffle

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.

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

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

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

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

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Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

Silver King Headframe

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

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

Thaynes Headframe

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.

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.

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Barn-Postcard

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Muckers and Millionaires Case

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

The Way We Worked

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

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

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

Test your flexibility!

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2018-Ornament

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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.

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

In Cahoots

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

National Constitution Center

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

Crossing the Border

Highline spur during the winter

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

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

December 28, 2011

PCHS Band, 1950

Going Places

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