COLLECTION NAME:
Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project Files
Record
Title:
Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Katie Allen
Collection Name:
WPA Collection
Collection Number:
WPA Bio 10
Item Description:
Allen, Katie - Biographical information for Katie Alberta Allen; "Wheatland's Only Woman Photographer", interviewed by Mrs. Minnie A. Rietz for "Stories of Pioneer Life", no published source, n.d. [also see her untitled obit in Douglas Enterprise, Douglas, WY, Jul. 18, 1916]
Creator:
Rietz, Minnie A
Location:
Wheatland, WY
Date:
1939 February 13
Notes:
Photographers--Wyoming
Notes:
award winning embroiderer and photographer - first woman photographer in Platte Co.
Notes:
died: Jul. 16, 1916 (age: o/a 35), at Wheatland
Notes:
buried: Wheatland Cemetery (Plot: Row 9, Block 1, Lot 65 - Memorial ID: 80572047)
Notes:
Sheep
Notes:
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Notes:
People with disabilities
Notes:
born: May 28 [or 8], 1884, at Hays City (Kan.)
Notes:
pianist, plus prize winning embroiderer and professional photographer, the first such woman photographer in Platte Co.
Notes:
resided in Wheatland (Platte Co. - July, 1895)
Type:
Text