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

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

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Silver-to-Snow

Raffle

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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Go Figure!

The National Archives Experience

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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The Way We Worked

Test your flexibility!

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

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

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.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Map by William Henry Jackson, 1861. Courtesy the 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?

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

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

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

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

• 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?

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

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

Thaynes Headframe

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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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The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

PCHS Band, 1950

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.

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

Crossing the Border

National Constitution Center

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

2018-Ornament

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

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

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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Going Places

Park City Museum

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

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

Book card in the Park City Library

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Highline spur during the winter

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

In Cahoots

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

December 28, 2011

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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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Test your flexibility!

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

Utah Humanities Council

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

NEH on the Road

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

On a guided hike with Hal

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.

Going Places

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Halloween at the Glenwood

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

Barn-Postcard

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Raffle

December 28, 2011

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

Crossing the Border

Silver King Headframe

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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.

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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