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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Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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.

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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

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

Test your flexibility!

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

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

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

Test your flexibility!

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

Crossing the Border

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

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

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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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.

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Crossing the Border

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

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

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

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

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Going Places

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

On a guided hike with Hal

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

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

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NEH on the Road

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Going Places

Book card in the Park City Library

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

The National Archives Experience

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

National Constitution Center

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Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

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

In Cahoots

PCHS Band, 1950

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

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

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

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

Go Figure!

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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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.

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

December 28, 2011

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

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

The Way We Worked

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.

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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.

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

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