Perhaps few women in late nineteenth-century Utah could better represent the bridging of the public and private spheres of life than Kate Diantha Barron Buck: a Salt Lake City dentist who won a blue ribbon and a bronze medal at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, as well as a blue ribbon at the Utah Territorial Fair in 1894, for her extraordinary silk embroidered map of the United States. Buck worked on her “Columbian Centennial Souvenir Map” for over a year, and the process of its creation is documented by the map itself and by items that have been preserved in tandem with the map.1 The fair encouraged the emergence of the well-rounded post-Victorian woman, one who was both an exemplary home keeper and who pursued a more public life through education and political societies.2 Buck, the creator of the map, was an excellent example of just...

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