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Mel Fletcher Oral History – Audio, copyright Park City Museum.

Gallery

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

2018-Ornament

Going Places

Test your flexibility!

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Thaynes Headframe

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

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

Halloween at the Glenwood

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Crossing the Border

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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.

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

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

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.

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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!

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Barn-Postcard

On a guided hike with Hal

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

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

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

Park-City-Museum-Store

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

December 28, 2011

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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

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.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

Silver-to-Snow

Museum-Art

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Make your own sock-puppet.

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

Utah Humanities Council

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Test your flexibility!

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

December 28, 2011

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

pop-jenks-newsletter

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

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

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

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

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Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

In Cahoots

Raffle

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

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

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

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

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

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

Park City Museum

PCHS Band, 1950

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

Go Figure!

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Silver King Headframe

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

Highline spur during the winter

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

The Way We Worked

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

Going Places

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Book card in the Park City Library

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

Crossing the Border

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

The National Archives Experience

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

Raffle

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

NEH on the Road

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.

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

National Constitution Center

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 how to make a book at the Park City Museum.

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

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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