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Small plaster bust of aviatrix Amelia Earhart by Kansas artist Peter "Fritz" Felten, Jr. The model is associated with the 1981 installation of statues in the Kansas statehouse rotunda. A special committee selected Felten from Hays, Kansas, as the sculptor of statues depicting four notable Kansans--Arthur Capper, Earhart, Dwight Eisenhower, and William Allen White. Felten created this small model and three others to demonstrate his design concept. Originally from Atchison, Kansas, Amelia Earhart was a noted American aviation pioneer, author, and celebrity who vanished in a 1937 flight around the world.
Creator: Felten, Peter F., Jr.
Date: between 1979 and 1981
Item Number: 224826
KSHS Identifier: 1982.5.4
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Artists
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Sculpture
Date - 1970s
Date - 1980s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Original Art - Sculpture - Bust
People - Notable Kansans - Earhart, Amelia 1897-1937
Places - Cities and towns - Hays
Places - Counties - Ellis
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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