Historic Main Street Walking Tours

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Learn all about Park City’s history while enjoying our beautiful Main Street.

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The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

NEH on the Road

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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

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

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

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Test your flexibility!

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

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

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

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

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1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

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

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

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Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

Utah Humanities Council

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

Go Figure!

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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December 28, 2011

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

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Crossing the Border

Thaynes Headframe

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

National Constitution Center

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

Going Places

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

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

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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

On a guided hike with Hal

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

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

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

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

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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.

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

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Going Places

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.

Early stock options. Click to view more.

The National Archives Experience

Book card in the Park City Library

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

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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?

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Highline spur during the winter

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

December 28, 2011

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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Halloween at the Glenwood

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

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

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

Silver-to-Snow

Crossing the Border

Test your flexibility!

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.

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

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

Raffle

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Silver King Headframe

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

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

The Way We Worked

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

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.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

In Cahoots

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

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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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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