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This photograph shows a group riding on a horse-drawn float assembled by the Ashpile Group, an El Dorado club, for participation in the Kaffir Corn Carnival Parade in El Dorado. A note on the back of the photo reads: "The Ashpile Club. Jimmie Dodwell, Leahy, Stinson, and their crew of intellectuals." This publication was funded in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.
Date: 1914
Item Number: 447817
Call Number: Kaffir Corn Carnival - CHM198
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447817
Agriculture - Crops - Corn
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)
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Festivals
Community Life - Events and Celebrations - Parades
Date - 1910s - 1914
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Counties - Butler
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Transportation - Automobiles
Type of Material - Photographs
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