HUTCHINSON, Kan. — For the past year, the Reno County Museum has been working in concert with WSU and with assistance from the Hutchinson Community Foundation and Humanities Kansas to digitize the collection of local historian Pat Mitchell.
This collection contains thousands of portraits from Hirst Studio, hundreds of photos from across the history of the city of Hutchinson, historic newspapers, as well as Pat’s own scrapbooks and research notes. As of now, more than 2,000 studio portraits are available for viewing online via WSU’s Special Collections and University Archives webpage.
To celebrate this collection and to take public access even further, the museum is opening its newly-revamped research library on Dec. 10. The Pat Mitchell Research Library will have a computer available, allowing the public to come into the museum and access a database listing every artifact currently in the collection. The public is invited to attend the opening reception from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. on Dec. 10.
Guests are invited to see how people from every era contributed to the legacy of Reno County history.
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