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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Museum-Art

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

December 28, 2011

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

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

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

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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.

Go Figure!

Silver King Headframe

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Highline spur during the winter

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

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.

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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

NEH on the Road

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Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Book card in the Park City Library

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.

The National Archives Experience

In Cahoots

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Thaynes Headframe

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Going Places

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

On a guided hike with Hal

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

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

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Test your flexibility!

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

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

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

Barn-Postcard

Halloween at the Glenwood

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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.

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

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

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

Utah Humanities Council

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

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.

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

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

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The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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Going Places

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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 Utah Central Depot. October 30, 1900.

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Test your flexibility!

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

The Way We Worked

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

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

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

Crossing the Border

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.

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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Park City Museum

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

Crossing the Border

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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.

Make your own sock-puppet.

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

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

December 28, 2011

National Constitution Center

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