'Deathly' photo surfaces at museum show and tell program
Highlights from the annual Bates County Museum Show and Tell program last Saturday
What might appear to be a normal family photograph around the turn of the century is not what it seems. The woman shown on the right is in fact...deceased. Around this time 'posing' dead loved ones for photographs had became quite popular.
A tractor made from a sewing machine, crafted by Ivan Dodds of rural Butler.
A steel wheel version sewing machine tractor by Ivan Dodds
A very practical, 1950's era loom donated to the museum by Mary Limpus of Amsterdam
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