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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

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

Silver King Headframe

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

Barn-Postcard

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

2.10-Invite

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

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

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

The National Archives Experience

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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.

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

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

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

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

2018-Ornament

Going Places

Thaynes Headframe

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

Highline spur during the winter

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

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

Silver-to-Snow

Raffle

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

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

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

December 28, 2011

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

Utah Humanities Council

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

In Cahoots

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Crossing the Border

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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.

Going Places

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

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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

December 28, 2011

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

On a guided hike with Hal

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.

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Raffle

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

Park City Museum

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

Book card in the Park City Library

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

Test your flexibility!

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Go Figure!

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

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

The Way We Worked

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

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.

Crossing the Border

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

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

NEH on the Road

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

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

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

National Constitution Center

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

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

Test your flexibility!

PCHS Band, 1950

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.

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

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