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

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

Halloween at the Glenwood

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Test your flexibility!

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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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.

In Cahoots

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

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Go Figure!

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Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

The National Archives Experience

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

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

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

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

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2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

Silver-to-Snow

The Way We Worked

NEH on the Road

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

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

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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

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

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

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

Crossing the Border

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

December 28, 2011

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Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

2018-Ornament

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

Going Places

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

Going Places

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Test your flexibility!

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

On a guided hike with Hal

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

National Constitution Center

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

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Raffle

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 Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Book card in the Park City Library

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

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

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

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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.

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

December 28, 2011

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

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

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

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.

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

Crossing the Border

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

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.

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

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