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

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Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

Test your flexibility!

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

December 28, 2011

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

Going Places

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

Barn-Postcard

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

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Book card in the Park City Library

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

Highline spur during the winter

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Crossing the Border

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

December 28, 2011

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

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

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.

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

National Constitution Center

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

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

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

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

Museum-Art

Silver-to-Snow

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

The Way We Worked

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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Test your flexibility!

Going Places

Utah Humanities Council

Go Figure!

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

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.

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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

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Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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The National Archives Experience

On a guided hike with Hal

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

In Cahoots

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

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

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.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Silver King Headframe

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Thaynes Headframe

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

NEH on the Road

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

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

Park-City-Museum-Store

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

Crossing the Border

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

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

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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