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Scarritt School Students
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View of 11 students in 1921 from Scarritt School posed with posters made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the admission of Missouri to the Union. Students are identified as: Front row - Unknown, unknown, Wilbur Edwards and Warren Husted. Back - Beatrice Martin, Dorothy Downs, Dua Martin, Ruth Henderson, Jane Gleason, Mildred Freeman and Bessie Nadlman.
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1921
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Photograph
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Allied Commanders in World War I
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Photograph portrait of the five allied commanders in World War I. Standing in uniform from left to right are Lt. General Baron Jacques (Belgium); General Armando Vittorio Diaz (Italy); Marshal Ferdinand Foch (France); General John J. Pershing, Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces; and Admiral David Earl Beatty, Commander of the British Navies. The commanders' signatures are located at the bottom of the image. Photograph was taken while the men were in Kansas City at the land dedication for the Liberty Memorial, November 1, 1921.
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #28
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Architectural rendering of the site layout included with the Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Thomas Wight and William Drewin Wight. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded seventh place by the 1921 memorial jury. "Wight and Wight's designs placed a large obelisk in the middle of an array of six rectangular cultural center buildings."
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #36
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Architectural detail of the three flags, altar, and columns included in a Liberty Memorial design proposal from San Francisco-based Walter D. Bliss and William B. Flaville. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was unranked by the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association. "Bliss & Flaville's design called for a simple, circular arena of soaring columns. Inside, three flags stood before a large altar, which bore a long inscription." The words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic are inscribed on the altar. The inscription above the columns reads: "Liberty Memorial Monument erected A.D. MCMXXII by a grateful people to perpetuate in the minds of future generations the memory of the heroic self-sacrifice of the men who served in the World War."
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #03
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Architectural rendering of the Liberty Memorial design proposal from the Kansas City-based firm Brostrom and Drotts. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their Beaux Arts-style entry proposed a large obelisk linked by column-lined walkways to two small buildings. Their proposal was unranked by the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association.
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #04
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Architectural detail of the Liberty Memorial design proposal from the New York-based Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded fourth place by the 1921 memorial jury. This detail depicts the sculpture of an imposing female figure, engraved with SPQR and a variety of scenes, set into the proposed central tower - the figure would not be visible to viewers at Union Station.
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #33
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Architectural rendering for a Liberty Memorial design proposal from the Kansas City-based firm Brostrom and Drotts. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their Beaux Arts-style entry was unranked by the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association.
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #41
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Architectural rendering included with a Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Arthur S. Keene and Leslie Simpson. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry earned fifth place from the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association. The proposed site included an art museum. music hall, and memorial building in addition to the monument. "The monument sat at the top of the hill, landscaped with zigzagging paths from the north edge."
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #29
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Architectural detail of the obelisk included with the Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Thomas Wight and William Drewin Wight. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded seventh place by the 1921 memorial jury. "Wight and Wight's designs placed a large obelisk in the middle of an array of six rectangular cultural center buildings."
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #16
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Architectural rendering of the site layout of a Liberty Memorial design proposal from the Kansas City-based Samuel Greenebaum, Arthur R. Hardy and Ramon Schumacher. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry earned third place from the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association. "The giant fluted column that formed the centerpiece of the firm's design would have been perched close to Main Street, on the eastern edge of the site."
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #19
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Architectural rendering of the Liberty Memorial design proposal from the New York-based Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded fourth place by the 1921 memorial jury. "Extending across Main Street to Signboard Hill with an arch, Goodhue's plan was entirely asymmetrical."
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #20
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Architectural rendering of the site layout included with the Liberty Memorial design proposal from the New York-based Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was awarded fourth place by the 1921 memorial jury. "Extending across Main Street to Signboard Hill with an arch, Goodhue's plan was entirely asymmetrical."
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #17
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Architectural rendering of a Liberty Memorial design proposal from the Kansas City-based Samuel Greenebaum, Arthur R. Hardy and Ramon Schumacher. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry earned third place from the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association. "The giant fluted column that formed the centerpiece of the firm's design would have been perched close to Main Street, on the eastern edge of the site."
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #15
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Architectural rendering of a Liberty Memorial design proposal from the Kansas City-based Samuel Greenebaum, Arthur R. Hardy and Ramon Schumacher. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry earned third place from the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association. "The giant fluted column that formed the centerpiece of the firm's design would have been perched close to Main Street, on the eastern edge of the site."
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #23
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Architectural detail included with a Liberty Memorial design proposal from Kansas City-based Arthur S. Keene and Leslie Simpson. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry earned fifth place from the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association.
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #01
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Architectural rendering of the site layout for a Liberty Memorial design proposal from the Kansas City-based firm Brostrom and Drotts. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was unranked by the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association
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1921
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Photograph
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Liberty Memorial Design Proposal #34
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Architectural rendering of the circular structure included in a Liberty Memorial design proposal from San Francisco-based Walter D. Bliss and William B. Flaville. According to Derek Donovan's Lest the Ages Forget: Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, their entry was unranked by the 1921 memorial jury convened by the Liberty Memorial Association. "Bliss & Flaville's design called for a simple, circular arena of soaring columns. Inside, three flags stood before a large altar, which bore a long inscription." The inscription reads: "Liberty Memorial Monument erected A.D. MCMXXII by a grateful people to perpetuate in the minds of future generations the memory of the heroic self-sacrifice of the men who served in the World War."
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1921
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Photograph
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