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A photograph of Avis Chitwood and her niece Janice Gartrell. Avis was born in Mound City, December 29, 1893 and died in Topeka, January 25, 1994 at the age of 100. She is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas. She was a teacher, painter, illustrator, printmaker, and etcher, specializing in rustic buildings, wildflowers, and missions. Janice, b.1920, d.2009, was the daughter of Milton Paul Gartrell, b.1876, d.1959 and Edna Chitwood Gartrell, Avis Chitwood's sister.
Date: 1993
Item Number: 218748
Call Number: B Chitwood, Avis *2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 218748
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Artists
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Artists
Date - 1990s - 1993
People - Notable Kansans - Chitwood, Avis, 1893-1994
People - Women
Thematic Time Period - The Recent Past, 1975 - present
Type of Material - Photographs
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