Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow Curator at Park City Museum

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Michael Scheibach to talk about living during the atomic age at the Park City Museum. (Cold War History, Atomic Bomb History)

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Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Test your flexibility!

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

PCHS Band, 1950

2018-Ornament

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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.

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

Thaynes Headframe

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

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

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

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

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Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

NEH on the Road

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

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

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

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Early stock options. Click to view more.

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

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?

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

Crossing the Border

Silver King Headframe

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

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

Museum-Art

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

The National Archives Experience

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

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

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

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

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

Going Places

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

On a guided hike with Hal

Going Places

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

PCHS Band, 1950

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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Watchman’s Cabin-Today

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

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

Go Figure!

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

The Way We Worked

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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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.

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Utah Humanities Council

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?

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.

Highline spur during the winter

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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Halloween at the Glenwood

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

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

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

PCHS Band, 1950

December 28, 2011

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1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

Test your flexibility!

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Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

Book card in the Park City Library

In Cahoots

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

National Constitution Center

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Crossing the Border

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Park-City-Museum-Store

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

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

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

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

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Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

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