Two women, Ruth Gilmore and Ruth Cater, standing in a field with a dog. The buildings visible in distance appear to be the railroad yards of Marceline, Missouri as as seen in P26, Box 1, Folder 4, Number 34--ID #212896.
Photos and article about "Wekc, or Women Executives of Kansas City," an annual meeting held by Ingram's magazine to view the thoughts of prominent local women on "current events and issues, both in and out of Kansas City."
An autochrome photograph of two seated women looking across Lake Tapawingo on the property of George W. Allan, President of the Kansas City Pump Company.
Chapters of the book about Midwestern women pianists and keyboard players, mostly in the jazz style. Photos and description of Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981), a black jazz pianist born in Atlanta and coming to Kansas City in 1929, playing with many bands.
Depicts the daily lives of North American pioneer women through diary and journal excerpts, historical photos, and music of the era. Though confronted by hardships, loneliness, and poverty, pioneer women sustained a love of the land and an indomitable spirit which made the settling of the West possible.
Woman identified on back of photo as Nora Hardisty 'en costume' sitting in a chair outside a building. Her hair is curled and worn up, she wears many necklaces, and her shoes have bows on them.
Photo has names written on the left side: Willis, Whinkle, Guitar, Wallace, Schneider, Babe, Virginia, Dorothy, Carlet, J. Broaddus, M Logan, B??, Wheeler, Bartlett, Orr, B. Carlet, Mary Lodey, Agnes Lacy.
This book includes biographical essays of "women political and social reformers in the nineteenth- and twentieth- century Midwest." Women included are Frances Dana Gage, Mary Sibley, Amanda Berry Smith, Linda Warfel Slaugher, Marietta Bones, Carry Nation, Alice French, Elfrieda von Rohr Sauer, Esther Twente, Genora Dollinger, and Harriett Friedman Woods.