Websiteimage2

Sizes: 150 × 150 / 300 × 102 / 480 × 200 / 480 × 200 / 300 × 200 / 100 × 100 / 586 × 200

From Military Bands to Summer Symphonies, Park City’s musical history has always been entertaining.

Gallery

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

Silver-to-Snow

Go Figure!

Raffle

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

PCHS Band, 1950

In Cahoots

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

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

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

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

Silver King Headframe

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

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

2019-holiday-ornament_Thaynes-Conveyor-Mine

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Museum-Art

Park-City-Museum-Store

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Raffle

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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

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

2.10-Invite

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

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

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

pop-jenks-newsletter

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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!

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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

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

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Halloween at the Glenwood

Crossing the Border

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

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

Going Places

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

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.

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Thaynes Headframe

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

NEH on the Road

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

National Constitution Center

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

????????????????????????????

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Crossing the Border

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

Barn-Postcard

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

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

Test your flexibility!

Park City Museum

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

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

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz enjoy the 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.

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

December 28, 2011

Wheelchair access icon

The National Archives Experience

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

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

Book card in the Park City Library

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

On a guided hike with Hal

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

Going Places

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

Utah Humanities Council

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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.

Watchman’s Cabin-Today

Early stock options. Click to view more.

December 28, 2011

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

Highline spur during the winter

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

The Way We Worked

2018-Ornament

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

Test your flexibility!

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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.

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

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Caption goes here

Image Info

Dimensions 586 × 200
Name Websiteimage2-1.jpg
Mime Type image/jpeg
Type JPG
Size 149.77 KB