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Trail End State Historic Site
400 Clarendon Ave ▪ Sheridan WY 82801 ▪ Ph 307-674-4589 ▪ Fx 307-672-1720
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Trail End State Historic Site 400 Clarendon Ave ▪ Sheridan WY 82801 ▪ Ph 307-674-4589 ▪ Fx 307-672-1720
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• Goal Though the Trail End State Historic Site interprets the lives of the Kendrick Family during the period 1913-1933, their stories both pre-date and post-date this time period. John Kendrick (born 1857) and his wife Eula Wulfjen Kendrick (born 1872) had two children, Rosa-Maye and Manville, born in 1897 and 1900, respectively. Later, Rosa-Maye and Manville each had two children, all born between 1931 and 1934. By examining the types of clothing worn by the three generations of Kendrick children, students will be introduced to production techniques, differences in materials, and how popular clothing styles changed from the middle of the 19th Century to the first half of the 20th Century, the middle of the 20th Century, and on into the 21st Century.
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The
Fashionable 
PAPER
FIGURES: Paper figures have been popular with children
for decades. They are useful to historians because they accurately show the
clothing of the time in which they were produced. Recently, Dover Publications has
produced a series of historic reproduction paper figures from different decades of
the 19th and 20th centuries. In this program, we use them to
show how clothing styles have changed over the years, how layers of clothes have
been reduced from many to few, and how clothing once made children look like
“small adults” rather than “kids.”
