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

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Going Places

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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.

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

On a guided hike with Hal

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

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Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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PCHS Band, 1950

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

Raffle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Raffle

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.

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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.

NEH on the Road

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.

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

Highline spur during the winter

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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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

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.

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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.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Museum-Art

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

2018-Ornament

Go Figure!

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

The National Archives Experience

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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.

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Crossing the Border

December 28, 2011

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

In Cahoots

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Test your flexibility!

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Make your own sock-puppet.

The Way We Worked

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

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The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Thaynes Headframe

Barn-Postcard

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

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

National Constitution Center

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

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

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

Book card in the Park City Library

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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Silver King Headframe

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?

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Silver-to-Snow

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.

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

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

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Going Places

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

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

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

Crossing the Border

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

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

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

December 28, 2011

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Test your flexibility!

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

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