Shawnee Mission Chapter Kansas Daughters of the American Revolution

10/05/2024

Ever wondered how women made their own dress bodices at home during the nineteenth century? Follow along with the DAR Museum’s Curator of Fashion and Textile...

07/27/2024

Do these early 20th century sneakers look familiar?
While female tennis players preparing for the 2024 Paris Olympics today might be wearing sleeveless tops and short skirts, in 1924, they would have worn a white mid-calf dress with sneakers like these Keds.
In 1916, the US Rubber Company introduced Keds, the first popular tennis shoe. These original Keds resemble Edwardian women's footwear with their boot-like silhouette but deliver comfort on the court with their canvas uppers and grippy rubber soles. At the turn of the 20th century, women began to participate in sports such as cycling, golf, and tennis that required clothing that allowed more mobility.
Cycling skirts, "sport" corsets, and tennis shoes like these represented the emerging ideal of the active, independent woman and evolved into the sportswear that women wear every day today.

07/20/2024

Have you ever thought you could see human face when you looked at a full moon?
This late 18th century button turned pin is carved with a “man in the moon” face like one you might think you see. People who see a “man in the moon” face smiling down on us are seeing the dark splotches on the moon surface and interpreting them as a face.
Today is National Moon Day which celebrates the July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 mission in which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin really were men on the moon surface.
Object ID 87.24.4

06/21/2024

06/08/2024

After over a century of serving the Daughters of the American Revolution National Headquarters, beautiful Memorial Continental Hall is undergoing restoration to bring it back to its original grandeur.
Check out the latest blog article by the incomparable Patrick Sheary - DAR Museum Curator of Furnishings and Interiors, to learn more!
https://blog.dar.org/memorial-continental-hall-gets-polish

If you are interested in contributing to the project, you can visit https://www.dar.org/supportMCH

05/23/2024

03/21/2024

Have you registered for the fifth annual NSDAR Junior Membership 5K? Since 2020, the 5K has raised more than $300,000 for the Helen Pouch Memorial Fund, making education-related initiatives such as the Classroom Grants Program, support of DAR Schools, and the National Junior Committee Project possible! Lace up your sneakers for the chance to support a sparkling cause and earn this beautiful medal honoring the women of the Edenton Tea Party, one of the earliest political activities organized by American women! The deadline to register is April 15. Learn more on the Today's DAR Blog: https://blog.dar.org/join-us-2024-nsdar-junior-membership-5k

03/09/2024

Lula Barber, Meta Kres, and Meda Montana Brendall, outside the welding shop at the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards in Baltimore, Maryland. Brendall is among the women featured in the Library's "Women at War" Veterans History Project collection.

Chosen from among the thousands of collections of women’s experiences in the Veterans History Project, this modest selection spans four wars. Many of the collections are nurses’ tales, but there is also the story of a code breaker (Ann Caracristi), a welder (Brendall), and a flight surgeon (Rhonda Cornum), plus two women who rose through the ranks to secure places in the military history books.

Hear their stories: http://go.loc.gov/P4QF50QMt2Z

03/07/2024

A museum right next to the White House grounds that might not be on your radar offers a walk through history. News4’s Tommy McFly reports.