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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race, Liberal, Kansas
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
This is a view of women participating in the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race, Liberal, Kansas.
previewShrove Tuesday Pancake Race, Liberal, Kansas
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
These women are waiting at the starting line for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race, Liberal, Kansas.
previewAmelia Earhart
This photograph shows aviator Amelia Earhart on a parade float at a homecoming parade in Atchison, Kansas. A native of Atchison, Kansas, Earhart spoke at Memorial Hall to a crowd of 3,500 people during her visit. Earhart set a record flying solo across the Atlantic in her Lockheed Vega. She made the 14-hour, 56-minute flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in May 1932. Earlier, she had been the first woman to cross the Atlantic as a passenger in a plane.
previewAmelia Earhart
This is an informal photograph of Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937. She is seated between two women on a parade float in Atchison, Kansas. The two women may be Barbara and Lorraine Hellener, daughters of the City Manager, Earl Hellener. Also visible are the float's driver, spectators, and parked automobiles along the city street. A native of Atchison, Earhart spoke at Memorial Hall to a crowd of 3,500 people during her visit. The parade was June 7, 1935.
previewFourth of July celebration, Coldwater, Kansas
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
View of a 1903 Fourth of July celebration on a street in Coldwater, Kansas. Business buildings are visible along the street, including the Shultise & Allderdice General Supply Store.
previewParade float advertising the Exchange Hotel, Ashland, Kansas
Steele, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1866-1936
View of a horse-drawn parade float advertising the Exchange Hotel on a street in Ashland, Kansas. People in the photograph are identified as: Dola Dorsey; Effie Morrison Dorsey; Emma Michael; Amy Dorsey Dugan; Hazel Klinger; Alvin Mull; Orilla Klinger; and Jack Dorsey, the driver.
previewMinnie Ka-kaque
This is a view of Minnie Ka-kaque riding a horse. She was the daughter-in-law of Pottawatomie Indian Chief Ka-kaque.
previewAlfred M. Landon's Notification Day parade, Topeka, Kansas
A view of the Coffeyville Tornado Drum Corps, a women's ensemble, in Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon's Notification Day parade on July 23, 1936, in Topeka, Kansas. The parade was celebrating Kansas Governor Alfred M. Landon's notification of his nomination to run as the Republican Party's candidate in the 1936 presidential election. Landon was defeated in November by a landslide vote for incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt.
previewSuffragists, Lawrence, Kansas
A photograph showing suffragists seated in an automobile and holding signs "Vote for women," in Lawrence, Douglas County. The women were participating in an automobile parade at the Douglas County Fair. The women are identified: Mrs. Paul R. Brooks, first president of Douglas County League; Mrs. Frank Strong, wife of the Kansas University chancellor and first vice president of the Douglas County League; Miss Florence Payne, former president of College League; Marcella Chalkley; Mr. Clement Perkins; and Miss Dorothy Williston.
previewHelen May Butler and Her Ladies Brass Band
This is a photo of Helen May Butler and Her Ladies Brass Band with their instruments at a Chautauqua in Sabetha, Kansas. The title above is what is on the bass drum. There is one woman dressed in Native American attire and she may be Native American.
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