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Mel Fletcher Oral History – Audio, copyright Park City Museum

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

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Crossing the Border

December 28, 2011

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

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

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

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Go Figure!

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

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

Silver King Headframe

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

National Constitution Center

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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

2018-Ornament

Halloween at the Glenwood

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Utah Humanities Council

Barn-Postcard

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

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

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

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

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.

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

Test your flexibility!

Silver-to-Snow

December 28, 2011

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.

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

Thaynes Headframe

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

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On a guided hike with Hal

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

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

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

The Way We Worked

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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

Going Places

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

NEH on the Road

The National Archives Experience

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

Museum-Art

Park City Museum

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

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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Early stock options. Click to view more.

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.

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

Book card in the Park City Library

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Test your flexibility!

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

In Cahoots

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

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

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

Crossing the Border

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

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PCHS Band, 1950

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

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

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

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.

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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

Park-City-Museum-Store

Going Places

Highline spur during the winter

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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.

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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