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Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Thaynes Headframe

Book card in the Park City Library

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

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

Silver King Headframe

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

December 28, 2011

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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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

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

National Constitution Center

Crossing the Border

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

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

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

Going Places

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Test your flexibility!

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

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

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

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

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

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Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

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.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

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.

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

The Way We Worked

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

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

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

Utah Humanities Council

On a guided hike with Hal

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

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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

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.

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

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

PCHS Band, 1950

PCHS Band, 1950

Going Places

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Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

NEH on the Road

In Cahoots

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

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.

Make your own sock-puppet.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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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.

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

Silver-to-Snow

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Highline spur during the winter

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

Go Figure!

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

Test your flexibility!

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

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

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

2018-Ornament

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Museum-Art

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.

Barn-Postcard

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

Crossing the Border

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

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

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

December 28, 2011

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

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

The National Archives Experience

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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