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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

Test your flexibility!

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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

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

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

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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?

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

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Crossing the Border

Crossing the Border

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

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

NEH on the Road

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

The Way We Worked

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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Muckers and Millionaires Case

PCHS Band, 1950

Utah Humanities Council

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

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

Going Places

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

Test your flexibility!

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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.

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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In Cahoots

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Highline spur during the winter

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Thaynes Headframe

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.

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

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Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

National Constitution Center

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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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.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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The National Archives Experience

Make your own sock-puppet.

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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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.

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Halloween at the Glenwood

Going Places

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

Silver-to-Snow

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Go Figure!

Raffle

Book card in the Park City Library

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

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

On a guided hike with Hal

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

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

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Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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.

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

Silver King Headframe

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

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.

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

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.

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Park City Museum

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

December 28, 2011

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