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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Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

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

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Watchman’s Cabin-Today

The Way We Worked

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

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

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

December 28, 2011

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

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

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

PCHS Band, 1950

Test your flexibility!

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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The National Archives Experience

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

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.

Go Figure!

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

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

Silver-to-Snow

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

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

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

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Highline spur during the winter

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

Barn-Postcard

Wheelchair access icon

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Early stock options. Click to view more.

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

Raffle

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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

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

NEH on the Road

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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Silver King Headframe

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.

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

Going Places

2018-Ornament

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

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.

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

Thaynes Headframe

On a guided hike with Hal

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

Book card in the Park City Library

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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Crossing the Border

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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.

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

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

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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

Museum-Art

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

December 28, 2011

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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.

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

Crossing the Border

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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

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

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

National Constitution Center

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

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

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

Test your flexibility!

In Cahoots

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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