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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Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

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

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

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Going Places

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

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

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

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Crossing the Border

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

Test your flexibility!

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Silver-to-Snow

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

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

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

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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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.

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

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.

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

The National Archives Experience

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

In Cahoots

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

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

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

The Way We Worked

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

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

Highline spur during the winter

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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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Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Going Places

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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.

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

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

Crossing the Border

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

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

Go Figure!

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.

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

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Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

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Book card in the Park City Library

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

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

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

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Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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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.

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Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

National Constitution Center

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

December 28, 2011

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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.

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

NEH on the Road

Museum-Art

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

Halloween at the Glenwood

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

On a guided hike with Hal

Test your flexibility!

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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