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This photograph shows the child Kaffir Corn "Fairy Queen" and her Baby Court at the 1926 Kaffir Corn Carnival in El Dorado, Kansas. Shown are Dorothy Jean Feder, Billie Wallace Smith, Lollie Caroline Ewing (sitting), Sarah Margaret Blair (sitting), Lucile Sluss, Ruth Dudley (Queen, wearing crown), Peggy Smith, and Virginia Lee Lathrop. This publication was funded in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.
Date: 1926
Item Number: 447659
Call Number: Kaffir Corn Carnival - CHM030
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447659
Agriculture - Crops - Sorghum/Milo
Collections - Contributing Institutions - Butler County Historical Museum and Kansas Oil Museum
Collections - Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board (KSHRAB) - Kansas Digital Access to Historical Records (KDAHR)
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Festivals
Date - 1920s - 1926
Home and Family - Children - Girls
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - El Dorado
Places - Counties - Butler
Type of Material - Photographs
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