Patricia Huyett Collection

Flat Samantha and Allison. Allison, a woman, holding up Flat Samantha as she is in front of a wall displaying three artworks. She wears a handmade rune shawl. The display was at an art show at the All...

Portrait photograph of young girl wearing a fancy dress with a pinafore collar and a matching bow in her hair.

An unidentified woman stands by the door of a home, possibly a dorm room, wearing a black vest over a black sweater, a black miniskirt, and knee-high black boots. Her hair is dyed deep red. She also...

An unidentified young girl looks at the camera in a close-up photograph. She has deep blue eyes. She wears a bluish-purple shirt and stud earrings. She holds a partially eaten cookie in her hand that...

During a scene from the high school play, "All the Way Home," by Ted Mosel, at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas, a young boy in vintage costume walks onto the stage.

Diane Sullivan (?), a female with wet hair and wearing a swimsuit, smiles over the back of a boat named, "Diane's Delight" on the Lake of the Ozarks. A confederate flag is on a light pole at the back...

Doug Speight, a boy, and Flat Samantha go to Henry's Coffee Shop in Lawrence, Kansas. Doug, in profile, pushing the "record" button on a "Speakers Corner" machine and holding Flat Samantha up to the...

Flat Samantha and eight-year-old Doug Speight, a boy, visit Henry's Coffee Shop in Lawrence, Kansas. Doug is sitting at a desk holding up a small foam football and Flat Samantha in front of a bulletin...

Doug Speight with Flat Samantha. Doug Speight, a boy, sitting on the floor wearing a walrus mask and holding a stuffed penguin and Flat Samantha. A sticker holding Flat Sam to the penguin reads,...

Flat Samantha with Julia Stepanenko. Julia Stepanenko, a woman, stands in front of a display of her framed artwork with Flat Samantha, a character from a children's book, also displayed behind the...

New Year's Eve Fireworks, Anchorage, Alaska, Grace Jones, a woman, is grinning at the camera as she holds up Flat Samantha.

Flat Samantha and Grace Jones, in Anchorage, Alaska. Grace Jones, a woman, is grinning at the camera as she wears "2000" novelty eyeglasses and holds up Flat Samantha.

Keith Allan Brown, Pat Huyett's nephew, looks seriously at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. He wears a tie, white button-down shirt, and a brown pinstripe suit jacket.

Pat Huyett smiles as she holds a gray cat with both hands in a photograph from the waist up.

Pat Huyett, a woman, wearing a nun's habit, gown, robe, belt and rosary beads. She holds an open prayer book with a cross bookmark with both hands. She smiles directly at the camera.

Pat Huyett acting the part of Aunt Hannah, a character in high school play, "All the Way Home," by Tad Mosel. She holds both hands on her belly as she stands in a kitchen by a kitchen table. She wears...

Flat Samantha with Pat Huyett. Pat Huyett, a woman, sitting at a desk with blue book exam papers and Flat Samantha sitting on the desk. Pat smiles at the camera as she holds a telephone receiver to...

Pat Huyett, a woman, sits on the floor with her legs crossed and both hands, fingers enfolded, around her left knee, as she looks off toward the right side of the photograph. She wears a straw hat...

Pat Huyett sits on the porch of a brick walk up apartment building with white window casements and porch columns, with her knees hugged up by her arms. She turns her head to smile at the camera...

Pat Huyett looks down and to her left with her left fingers supporting her chin and a cigarette in her right hand as her elbows rest on the arms of the chair. She is sitting in an upholstered chair in...

An unidentified man looks to the left side of the photograph as he sits in front of a full china cabinet. There is a shelf full of wrapped Christmas presents on the right side of the photograph.

An unidentified man smiles at the camera as he sits at a dining table. A bowl of soup sits on the table in front of him. His right elbow rests on the table as the curled fingers of his hand are by his...

A photograph of Pat Huyett, a woman, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a smoking jacket, leaning her chin on her left hand as she rests her right hand on a table she it sitting at, is pasted onto a...

An unidentified young male leans his cheek on his curled fingers as he smiles at the camera. He wears a red and black plaid bow tie, a white button-down shirt with button studs, and a black suit...