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Test your flexibility!

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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December 28, 2011

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.

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

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

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

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!

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

Make your own sock-puppet.

Going Places

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

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

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

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

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

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

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2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

Museum-Art

December 28, 2011

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Utah Humanities Council

PCHS Band, 1950

Book card in the Park City Library

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

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

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

The Way We Worked

Crossing the Border

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Barn-Postcard

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

On a guided hike with Hal

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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Raffle

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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.

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

National Constitution Center

Go Figure!

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

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

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

Thaynes Headframe

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

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.

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

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NEH on the Road

Highline spur during the winter

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

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

Going Places

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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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In Cahoots

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

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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.

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

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Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Test your flexibility!

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

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

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Silver King Headframe

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

The National Archives Experience

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

Crossing the Border

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

Raffle

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

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.

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

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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?

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