Patricia Huyett Collection

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,...

Pat Huyett leans her chin in her hand as she sits at a picnic table with an unidentified man wearing a swimsuit and smoking a cigarette. Her hair is wet. An unidentified woman bends between the seated...

Four unidentified girls in their Easter clothes stand outdoors in front of an evergreen tree.

Pat Huyett grins as she sits sideways and leans back into the arms of an unidentified man who is grinning over her shoulder as they ride in a boat. Pat's arms are crossed as if she might be cold. The...

Pat Huyett sits beside an unidentified man at a picnic table on a deck with family standing behind them. Including Pat, there are four women, two children, and four men. The date is imposed on the...

A fireworks display in Anchorage, Alaska, for New Year's Eve. The backs of the crowd are visible in the foreground of the photograph.

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...

In a scene from the high school play, "All the Way Home," by Tad Mosel, at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas, two males, one female, and one child stand in front of an old...

The front of a log cabin in woods with two dormers and a front porch with a grill on it.

Pat Huyett smiles at the camera as an unidentified man wraps her neck in the crook of his elbow and leans his cheek against hers as they stand on a dock with a motorboat in the center. Another...

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.

Hand embroidered and appliquéd framed picture of Betty Boop's head in a pink heart with berry vines on each side.

A hand embroidered jean skirt panel of a butterfly flying over a flower plant.

The back of a hand embroidered jean skirt lying on a wooden bench beside a book about quilts.

Detail from a panel on the front of a hand embroidered jean skirt of a sailing ship on the sea with the sun rising behind it.

A hand embroidered blue shirt yoke of three colorful sunburst-style designs. One on each shoulder and one in the middle.

A hand embroidery of a sunburst type shape on denim with details of the styles of stitches.

A hand embroidery of a sunflower plant on a shirt pocket with feather stitching outlining the edges of the pocket.

A hand embroidered wedding dress folded to see the embroidered panels on the bodice, sleeves, and hem. Pekingese stitch on the sleeves and a feather stitch with beads at the neckline. A bird design in...

Two hand embroideries with appliqué of a bucolic scenes of flowers, fields, and a tree. The one on the left side of the photograph also has a wooden gate beside the tree.

A framed hand embroidery of a tree in a field of flowers with three large flowers appliquéd on the bottom center. The picture is sitting on a piece of cloth of sunflowers and leaves on a black...

A framed hand embroidery of a tree in a field of flowers with three large flowers appliquéd on the bottom center. The picture is sitting on a piece of cloth of sunflowers and leaves on a black...

Hand embroidery of a blue feather stitch with glass beads sewn in around the collar of a wedding dress with a flower in a circle at the center of the chest.

A hand embroidery still in the hoop of a bucolic scene of flowers, fields, and a tree.