Park City Museum

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Park City Museum

interior and exterior images

Gallery

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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Silver-to-Snow

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Going Places

The National Archives Experience

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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.

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

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

December 28, 2011

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

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

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Test your flexibility!

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

The Way We Worked

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

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

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Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

December 28, 2011

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

In Cahoots

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

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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.

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Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

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

Highline spur during the winter

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

Crossing the Border

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

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

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

Test your flexibility!

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

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

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

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

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.

On a guided hike with Hal

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Crossing the Border

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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

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.

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

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

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Go Figure!

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

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

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

NEH on the Road

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

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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!

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

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

National Constitution Center

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

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Book card in the Park City Library

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

PCHS Band, 1950

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

Going Places

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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