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'Women in agriculture'

Mar 23

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: Women and Farms [1932]

Posted to KGI Online Library Blog on March 23, 2022 at 9:30 AM by Bill Sowers

An amazing life... Norma Knight Jones of Eskridge, Kansas, speaks of farm life in 1932 in Kansas.  Read the speech given at the 1932 Kansas Agricultural Convention at the State Library of Kansas' KGI Online Library...

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Aug 16

Women and Rural Life in Kansas 100 Years Ago

Posted to KGI Online Library Blog on August 16, 2018 at 10:04 AM by Bill Sowers


Let's step back 100 years ago and take a look at farm life through the eyes of Mrs. W. R. Miller, "farmer's wife, Topeka," in a short article found in the 21st Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture (1917-1918)

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