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Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

Test your flexibility!

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

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Early stock options. Click to view more.

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Going Places

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

National Constitution Center

NEH on the Road

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

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

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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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.

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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.

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

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

Crossing the Border

The Way We Worked

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

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Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

The National Archives Experience

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

December 28, 2011

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.

Halloween at the Glenwood

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

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

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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

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

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

In Cahoots

Thaynes Headframe

Go Figure!

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

Barn-Postcard

Highline spur during the winter

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

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

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

2018-Ornament

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

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

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

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Going Places

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

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Crossing the Border

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

Utah Humanities Council

On a guided hike with Hal

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

Book card in the Park City Library

Make your own sock-puppet.

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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.

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From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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.

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.

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

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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.

Park City Museum

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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!

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

December 28, 2011

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

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

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

Silver King Headframe

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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