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

Gallery

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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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.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

December 28, 2011

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Barn-Postcard

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

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

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

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Thaynes Headframe

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

The Way We Worked

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

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

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

Silver-to-Snow

The National Archives Experience

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Halloween at the Glenwood

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Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

Highline spur during the winter

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

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

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

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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.

Silver King Headframe

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

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

Going Places

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

Crossing the Border

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

Test your flexibility!

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

Going Places

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

Go Figure!

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

Test your flexibility!

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

Museum-Art

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

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Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Make your own sock-puppet.

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

2018-Ornament

Crossing the Border

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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Muckers and Millionaires Case

National Constitution Center

Utah Humanities Council

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

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

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

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

December 28, 2011

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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

Park City Museum

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

NEH on the Road

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

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

Book card in the Park City Library

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

PCHS Band, 1950

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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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.

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

On a guided hike with Hal

In Cahoots

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.

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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.

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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.

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