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

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

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

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

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!

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

Early stock options. Click to view more.

Museum-Art

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

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

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

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

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

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.

Book card in the Park City Library

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

NEH on the Road

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

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

Highline spur during the winter

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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

Halloween at the Glenwood

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Crossing the Border

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.

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

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

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

On a guided hike with Hal

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

Make your own sock-puppet.

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

PCHS Band, 1950

The National Archives Experience

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.

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Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

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

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

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

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

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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?

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

The Way We Worked

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

National Constitution Center

Utah Humanities Council

Silver-to-Snow

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

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

Test your flexibility!

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

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

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Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Going Places

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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

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

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Test your flexibility!

Park City Museum

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

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

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

Crossing the Border

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

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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.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

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

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

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.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

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

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

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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.

Going Places

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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Go Figure!

December 28, 2011

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

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The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

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

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

In Cahoots

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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