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Ruth Isabelle Mertz, note to accompany The Bridge (Wamego, Kansas) by Maude Mitchell, 1944, ink…
Note to accompany The Bridge (Wamego, Kansas)
Ruth Isabelle Mertz, note to accompany The Bridge (Wamego, Kansas) by Maude Mitchell, 1944, ink…
Ruth Isabelle Mertz, note to accompany The Bridge (Wamego, Kansas) by Maude Mitchell, 1944, ink on paper, 3 1/16 x 5 in., Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of James and Margaret Mertz, CM1.2024

Note to accompany The Bridge (Wamego, Kansas)

Author (United States, 1911 - 1987)
Related (United States, 1875 - 1957)
Date1944
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsIMAGE/SHEET: 3 1/16 x 5 in. (77.8 x 127 mm)
Object TypeEphemera
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of James and Margaret Mertz
Object numberCM1.2024
On View
Not on view
Description
Note reads:
D-Day June 6, 1944
 The day we bought this picture from Maude J.
Mitchell for $150.00.
World War II
Jim & John had been taking painting lessons for about a year.--- 
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