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Category Archives: Oral history
Territory Girl, Statehood Pioneer: Mary Godat Bellamy’s Wyoming Story
Imagine hearing the actual voice of someone who watched Civil War soldiers march past her childhood home, then lived to see the atomic age. That’s exactly what you can experience with Mary Godat Bellamy’s 1947 recordings—a remarkable audio document from … Continue reading
Posted in Collections Highlights, Oral history, Uncategorized, Women in History, Wyoming history
Tagged American Heritage Center, audio recordings, Civil War memories, Digitized collections, Fort Sanders, Frontier Life, Laramie Wyoming, Lola Homsher, Mary Godat Bellamy, Oral History Interviews, SoundScribr, Women in Politics, women's suffrage, WyoHistory.org, Wyoming Legislature, Wyoming Pioneers, Wyoming Statehood Day, Wyoming Territory
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The Wyoming Quilt Project: Preserving History Through Quilts
In 1994, a small but dedicated group of Wyoming women came together to start documenting the state’s quilts. The Wyoming Quilt Project was created with a mission of photographing and recording details about Wyoming’s quilts—those that were made in the … Continue reading
Posted in American Heritage Center, Culture and heritage, Oral history, Textile Arts, Uncategorized, women's history, Wyoming history
Tagged American Heritage Center, Community History, Family Heirlooms, Folk Art, Great Depression, Harper Pachel, Historical Documentation, Historical records, Material Culture, quilting, Sonya Meyer, Tammy Au-France, Textile Preservation, Women's Initiatives, Wyoming Quilt Project
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