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A black ink on rag paper woodcut showing a country elevator with two boxcars sitting beside it According to the artist, the scene is set in Minneapolis, Kansas. Hartley's Elevator was drawn by Herschel C. Logan, who was born April 19, 1901 in Magnolia, Missouri , and shortly after his birth the family moved to Winfield, Kansas. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for one year. Logan was a commercial and advertising artist in Salina, Kansas, until his retirement in 1968. He was a member of the Prairie Print Makers. After retirement, Logan moved to Santa Ana, California.
Creator: Herschel C. Logan
Date: 1932
Item Number: 220482
KSHS Identifier: 1977.170.50
Built Environment - Function - Agriculture/Subsistence - Storage - Grain elevators
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Artists
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Printmaking - Prairie Print Makers
Date - 1930s - 1932
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Original Art - Picture - Landscape
People - Notable Kansans - Logan, Herschel C., 1901-1987
Transportation - Railroads - Rolling stock - Boxcars
Transportation - Railroads - Tracks
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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