After the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum displayed their Laura Ingalls Wilder exhibit in 1995 (read more about it here), the next time a display case was dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder there was as part of the American Women exhibit in 2000. (You’ll find Laura’s case at 8:41 into the video.) Look for a chair Almanzo made, a table and chair from Rocky Ridge, and the mailbox where Laura received all those fan letters. There also are a couple of pages of revised manuscript, and on the table are examples of Laura’s china and silverware. There are also Sewell editions and foreign editions of the Little House books, plus some photo enlargements. I made quite a few trips over there to admire the exhibit while it was up.
If you open the comments on the YouTube page, you can click on the times to go directly to sections on any of the women who garnered a mention in the video:
Intro – Pocahontas – Colonial Women – Martha Washington – Abigail Adams – Elizabeth Seton -Sacagawea – Civil War – Harriet Tubman – Harriet Beecher Stowe – Clara Barton – Emily Dickinson & Louisa May Alcott – Mary Todd Lincoln & Mary Surratt – Laura Ingalls Wilder – Annie Oakley
Molly Brown – Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Jane Addams & Carrie Chapman Catt – Willa Cather & Edna St. Vincent Millay & Dorothy Parker – Grace Coolidge & Lou Henry Hoover – Juliette Low – Helen Keller – Greta Garbo – Eleanor Roosevelt- Amelia Earhart – WW2 – Mamie Eisenhower – Lucille Ball – Ethel Rosenberg – Rosa Parks – Rachel Carson – Jackie Cochran – Marilyn Monroe – Jackie Kennedy
Coretta Scott King – Helen Gurley Brown & Gloria Steinem Sad how many death dates would be added now in the last section. Sally Ride – 21st Century Women – Hillary Rodham Clinton – Elizabeth Dole – Mary Engelbreit – Oprah Winfrey – Supreme Court – Janet Reno – Joan Ganz Cooney
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