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Every Friday, Marie of Cpaphil Vintage Postcard hosts this delightful Postcard Friendship Friday.
Out West
Another of the silly postcards that I picked up last month on the trip out to Colorado
It reads on back....
Because wood was scarce on the prairies, buffalo "chips" were burned for cooking and heating. Pioneer Ada McColl is shown here in an 1893 photo taken near Lakin, in southwest Kansas.
Photo courtesy of Kansas State Historical Society. (KH-3)
So I went over the the Kansas Historical Society 's web site and this is what i found.....
Pioneer Photographer: The Story of the Cow Chip Lady
by Kansas Historical Society
"At the age of 21, when most young women were
considering more traditional roles, Ada wanted to
learn how to operate a camera. .
. . .“I asked my mother why she had her mouth open in
that picture of her and the wheelbarrow full of cow chips,”
Pryor recalled, “and she said she was telling her mother
how to take the picture.”
With her camera, Ada created family portraits and
documented the Kansas prairie. Her images depict life on nearby
Kearny County farms."
You can read more about Ada McColl in the Kansas Historical Society publication HERE.
It is in PDF format and the article about Ada is on page 10.
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