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2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Gallery

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Silver-to-Snow

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

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Make your own sock-puppet.

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

Barn-Postcard

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

Highline spur during the winter

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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.

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

Test your flexibility!

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

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

Raffle

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

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

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

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

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

Crossing the Border

Silver King Headframe

In Cahoots

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Park City Museum

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

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

The National Archives Experience

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

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

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

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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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

Raffle

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

Thaynes Headframe

National Constitution Center

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

The Way We Worked

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

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

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

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

Museum-Art

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Going Places

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

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

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

December 28, 2011

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

PCHS Band, 1950

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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

NEH on the Road

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Book card in the Park City Library

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

Going Places

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

Utah Humanities Council

On a guided hike with Hal

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

Go Figure!

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

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

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Test your flexibility!

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

Crossing the Border

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

December 28, 2011

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

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

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