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Crazy quilt
Creator: Haywood, Martha E. Hutchison
Date: between 1888 and 1915
Crazy Quilt made up of irregularly shaped cotton and silk fabric pieces assembled around a central blue medallion featuring the embroidered letter "H." Each fabric piece is decorated with featherstitched outline embroidery, and some have painted designs and additional needlework. Pink sateen binding and backing. Tied with pink cotton yarn. The elaborate embroidered "H" at center stands for "Haywood." This quilt was begun in 1888 by Martha Hutchinson Haywood and used as a bedcover in the sod house she shared with her husband, Charles, and their children in Fowler, Kansas. The Haywood cattle brand appears on the quilt, as well as a horse depicting the steed ridden by Charles when Martha first saw him. The embroidered names "Carl" refer to the Haywoods' eldest son. The "C" may refer to their middle son Clarence, and the quilt also incorporates pieces of a graduation gown worn by their daughter, Nettie. "Ben" was Charles' brother.
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Fowler Band, Pratt, Kansas
Date: August 17, 1910
This is a view of the members of the Fowler Band in Pratt, Kansas. Spectators and buildings are visible in the background. The town of Fowler is in Meade County.
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Independence Day Parade, Fowler, Kansas
Date: July 4, 1908
This is a view of a marching band and automobiles in an Independence Day parade on July 4, 1908, in Fowler, Meade County, Kansas. Also visible are spectators, buildings, utility poles, and power lines.
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Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union memory book
Creator: Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Date: Between 1941 and 1950
This memorial book contains photographs and biographical sketches of members of the Kansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Click "Text Version" below for a searchable index of the names contained in this volume.
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Plat book of Meade County, Kansas
Creator: R. P. Ice and Company
Date: 1909
This atlas shows maps of each township with the names of landowners. It has a patrons' directory, portraits, and plats of towns as of the year of publication.
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Rock Island wheat festival special
Creator: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Date: 1926
This flyer advertises the dates that the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company "Wheat Festival Special" will visit numerous Kansas towns along its route. It will in Kansas August 2 through 7, 1926. The train is operated in cooperation with the Kansas Agricultural College, the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, the Kansas State Grain Inspection Department, the Southwestern Wheat Improvement Association, the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Kansas Public Service Commission. The flyer lists speakers and their topics. Miss Vada Watson, the Kansas Wheat Queen, is one of the "special attractions" accompanying the train. A. W Large is in charge of the train for the railroad company.
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Swimming pool, Fowler, Kansas
Date: Between 1937 and 1939
This is a photograph of the swimming pool at Fowler, Kansas. The pool was built by the Works Progress Administration.
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Willard Gray McLane, World War I soldier
Date: 1918-1924
Around 1919, the Kansas State Historical Society and the American Legion solicited biographical information from returning veterans (primarily members of the 35th and 89th infantry divisions) and the families of those who died in service, notably from the Gold Star Mothers. Each veteran or family member was asked to provide letters, photographs, a biography, and military records. This file contains information on Willard Gray McLane, 339th Field Artillery, 88th Division. Willard died of pneumonia on October 18, 1918, at the Base Hospital in Royat, France.
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