Display handicraft articles at Hillyard WPA show State history. Works Progress Administration. Exhibitions. 1937-07-05

Title

Display handicraft articles at Hillyard WPA show State history. Works Progress Administration. Exhibitions. 1937-07-05

Creator

Spokane chronicle

Date

7/5/37

Description

The Hillyard community center held a WPA handicraft exhibit and tea, several hundred women attending. Handicraft articles, lavishly displayed on two long walls of the room brought many favorable comments for the instructor, Mrs. Kittie Holmes. Occupying center position in the picture are, left to right: Mrs. Nellie Truax, Mrs. Eva Ringo (knitting) and Mrs. Ethel Jelnick, who modeled the knit dresses they are wearing. Mrs. Holmes shared honors for the affair with Mrs. Bernice Ledbetter knitting instructor.

Subject

Northwest history
Works Progress Administration
Exhibitions
WPA
Mrs. Nellie Truax
Mrs. Eva Ringo
Mrs. Ethel Jelnick
Hillyard community center
Handicraft exhibit
Photographs
Bernice Ledbetter
Kittie Holmes
Northwest,Pacific -- History -- 20th Century
United States. Works Progress Administration -- Northwest, Pacific

Source

Northwest Digital Heritage

Relation

http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/utils/getthumbnail/collection/clipping/id/55644

Type

text

References

http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/55644

Citation

Spokane chronicle, “Display handicraft articles at Hillyard WPA show State history. Works Progress Administration. Exhibitions. 1937-07-05,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed October 14, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/39900.

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