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Title: Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Yearbook - Lair
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Center High School Yearbook - The Yellowjacket
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Center High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Paseo High School Yearbook - Paseon
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Paseo High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Northeast High School Yearbook - The Noreaster
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Northeast High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Biography of Lafayette A. Tillman (1859-1914), Barber, Soldier, and Policeman
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Dorothy Lillard (1908-1995), Teacher and School Administrator
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of William E. (Bill) Vaughan (1915-1977), Newspaper Columnist
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Edward M. Hiner (1872-1948), Bandmaster and Music Teacher
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Frederick Lyman Lee II, October 7, 1935-December 29, 1998
Description: Obituary for Frederick Lyman Lee II, or Fred Lee (1935-1998), a historical writer and native of Kansas City. Details of his life and career, starting as a writer in 1961 after service in the military, then becoming president of the Westport Historical Society, etc., engaged in the restoration of the Harris-Kearney Home and Fort Osage and in the creation of Pioneer Park at Broadway and Westport Roads.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Richard's Field
Description: Brief history of the Richards Flying Field, estabished in 1922 in Raytown, Missouri, used for military pilot training and regular airmail service and visited by Charles Lindbergh at the height of his popularity in the mid-1920s, but after declining traffic turned into in a residential subdivision in the 1950s.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City: An American Story
Description: Biographical sketch of one of Kansas City's first black police officers, Lafayette A. Tillman, a college educated military veteran "in the early years of the 20th century," with photos.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Fort Riley's Black Soldiers and the Army's Changing Role in the West, 1867-1885
Description: History of the black regiments at Fort Riley following the Civil War and their involvements in military activities with the Western frontier, Indian lands, etc.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Biography of Moses Grinter (1810-1878) and Anna Marshall Grinter (1820-1905), Pioneers
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: ''Proud We Are'' Private Rhinehart and the College Company of the Twenty-second Kansas Volunteers
Description: Article discussing the journal of Private Rhinehart of the College Company volunteer soldiers from Kansas for the Spanish-American War.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: Biographical information about Frederick T. Kemper (1816-1881), the founder of the Kemper Military School and College in Boonville, Missouri.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City: An American Story
Description: Chapter of the book about the World War II era in Kansas City and economic resurgence through the military industrial effort, with several photos and illustrations, including women entering the work force en masse for the first time.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: A History of the Missouri Synod's Participation in the Military Chaplaincy, Part 1
Description: First of a series of articles about the history of Lutheran Churches in the Missouri Synod and their participation in the military as chaplains, with this part covering the War of 1812 up to but not including World War II.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Military Airports
Description: One page of the history of military airports in Kansas City and vicinity, starting with Richards Field in 1922 and continuing with the Sherman Army Airfield at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1923; Fairfax Airport in 1929; Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base in 1941 (becoming Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport in 1994); the Olathe Naval Air Station in 1942; and Whiteman Air Force Base in 1942 in Knob Noster, Missouri (starting as the Glider Base in Sedalia, Missouri).
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book Section