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Title
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Enterprising Women
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Description
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Chapter in the book which highlights both Ida Rosenthal, founder of Maindenform, Inc., and Kansas City's Nell Donnelly Reed and her Nelly Don dresses.
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Date
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1976
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Outdoor Portrait of Women
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Description
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Outdoor group portrait of men and women at an unidentified park shelter. A woman holds a sign that reads "Wilson and Co. Plant Girls Picnic, 1920."
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Date
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1920
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Three Seated Women
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Description
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Portrait of three unidentified women seated at unknown location.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Portrait of Two Women
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Description
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Informal protrait of two unidentified women.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Women Seated at Table
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Description
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Group of Donnelly Garment Company employees dining at table.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Men and Women in Wedding Costume
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Description
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Group portrait of men and women in wedding attire at company Valentine's Day party, February 8, 1929.
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Date
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1929-02-08
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Top 10 Women Who Changed Missouri
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Description
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Short biographical vignettes of ten women who influenced not only Missouri but the country, some the world. Women included are: Annie Turnbo Malone (1869-1957), one of first Black female millionaires; Susan Blow (1843-1916), creator of kindergartens; Gergy Cori (1896-1957), first woman to win a nobel prize in medicine; Helen Stephens (1918-1994), an Olympic gold medal winner; Annie White Baxter (1864-1944), first woman in the U.S. to ever be elected to the office of county clerk and 30 years before women received the right to vote; Jane Froman (1907-1980), overcame many obstacles to become one of the most beloved entertainers of her time; Edna Gellhorn (1878-1970), activist and civic leader; Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), author and literary legend; Nell Donnelly Reed (1889-1991), creator of stylish fashions for women; and Louise Stanley (1883-1954), mother of home economics.
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Date
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2012-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Nell Donnelly Reed
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Description
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Biography of Nell Donnelly Reed (1889-1991), or Nell Reed, designer of women's clothing in the early and mid-1900s with the Donnelly Garment Company and the Nelly Don clothing label, "a stylish, feminine frock which was the foundation of a multi-million dollar business." Native of Parson, Kansas coming to Kansas City in 1906 as Mrs. Paul Donnelly and starting her own company before marrying senator James A. Reed in 1931, becoming the first woman on the board of the Midwest Research Institute, and donating 840 acres of land in Jackson County for the James A. Reed Wildlife Area, etc.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Woman Seated at Desk
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Description
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Informal portrait of woman at desk, identified by writing on photo as Mrs. Reeves.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of Nell Donnelly Reed (1889-1991), a pioneer woman clothing designer and entrepreneur, starting the Donnelly Garment Company in the 1910s and leading it to "one of the largest in the nation" for garment labels by the 1950s, remarried in the 1930s to James A. Reed.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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P31 Nelly Don Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Nelly Don Collection contains 35 black and white photographic prints donated to the Missouri Valley Special Collections in August 2001. The donor's aunt had been an employee of the Donnelly Garment Company and had collected these photographs. Few of the individuals in the photographs are identified, and many images are not dated. The photographs largely consist of Donnelly Garment Company employee group portraits on holiday and otherwise festive occasions.Nell Donnelly Reed was born Ellen Quinlan in Parsons, Kansas, 1889, and moved to Kansas City in 1906. She began designing and sewing her own housedresses, several of which she offered for sale to the George B. Peck Dry Goods Company in 1916. By 1931 she owned the Donnelly Garment Company, which manufactured the widely known "Nelly Don" line of women's apparel. Reed retired in 1956, and the organization's name was changed to Nelly Don, Inc. The company evolved throughout the 1960s and 70s, although the changing economic climate of the nation eventually brought its demise. The selling of fabrics was a sustaining innovation of the 1970s, but Nelly Don, Inc., filed for Chapter 10 bankruptcy in 1978.
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Date
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1920~/1950~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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A New Day
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Description
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"The 41st Symphony Designers' Showhouse Takes Aim at The National Spotlight." Two-page spread explains a new emphasis for the Designers' Showhouse. Karen Mills, a radio show host, interior designer and the co-chair for the Designers' Showhouse this year, envisions Kansas City becoming a design mecca. The 41st showhouse at 5833 Ward Parkway once belonged to dressmaker Nelly Don. The showhouse will also welcome children this year. Previously children were not admitted.
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Fashion's Famous: Nelly Don (Mrs. James A. Reed)
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Nell Donnelly Reed, or Nell Reed, wife of senator James A. Reed and founder of a clothing store and women's clothing line named after her own nickname, Nelly Don.
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Date
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1937-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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