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Title: Labouring for the Freedom of This Territory: Free-State Women in the 1850s
Description: Article about the social conditions of women in 1850s Kansas, including acts of heroism in antislavery activism, with photos and illustrations.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: ''Labouring For the Freedom of This Territory'': Free-State Kansas Women in the 1850s
Description: Article about the hardships of Kansas women in the border warfare era of the 1850s, with few rights and fighting on the side of anti-slavery.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Petticoat Pioneers
Description: This film celebrates the accomplishments of women who braved the challenges of westward expansion...women who persevered in spite of hardship and danger and whose gift to the next generation was the chance of a better life.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Audio Visual

Title: A Lady Revealed
Description: Article about the secret identities and hidden pasts of former mistresses and real estate women Louise Heorath (born in 1866 as Cora Totty) and Annie Chambers (born in 1843 as Leannah Kearns), around 1900.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Marking Missouri History
Description: Biography of Clara Hoffman who lived in Warrensburg, Missouri and in Kansas City, Missouri. She was a leader in the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Chester Arthur Franklin (1880-1955), Founder of The Call Newspaper
Date: 1998
Object Type: Biography