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SC135 Longan Study Club Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Longan Study Club Collection contains materials relating to the purpose, function, and activities of the club. This collection includes minutes of meetings, financial records, the club constitution and articles of incorporation, correspondence, photographs, and other materials.
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1900/1983
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC192 Round Robin Study Club Collection Finding Aid
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The Round Robin Study Club is a women's club organized in 1901 to provide its members with opportunities for social interaction and enriching study. This collection includes minutes of meetings, club histories, constitution, newspaper articles, correspondence, essays, poems, programs, and photographs.
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Date
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1901/2015
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC130 Woman's Relief Corps Ledger Book Finding Aid
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Description
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The Woman's Relief Corps was the women's auxiliary group of the Grand Army of the Republic. It was established in 1883 as a social, civic, and patriotic organization to foster social improvements and to generate and sustain community appreciation for the sacrifice of those patriots who had died to preserve the Union. Among the Corps' activities were: child welfare work, such as school shoe drives; receptions for GAR dignitaries; and flag presentations to schools, clubs, and Old Soldiers' Homes.
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Date
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1909/1918
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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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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1920~/1950~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC71 Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra Scrapbooks Finding Aid
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Description
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The Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra began performing in 1933 and ceased in 1982. Beginning performances were held in Convention Hall. The orchestra's home for many years was the Music Hall located in Municipal Auditorium. Concerts were given in Kansas City as well as in states and cities in the Midwest region. The primary conductors were: Karl Krueger, 1933-43; Efrem Kurtz, 1943-47; and Hans Schwieger, 1948-70.The collection includes 41 photographs, seven microfilm rolls, and 35 scrapbooks. The majority of the scrapbooks were assembled by the Philharmonic's Women's Committee. Scrapbook contents include newspaper and magazine clippings, programs, invitations, photographs, publicity materials, brochures, newsletters, and ephemera. A notable feature of the Women's Committee scrapbooks is the art work adorning the pages done in chalk or ink. The contents include related activities as various fund raising events including the Jewell Ball, educational endeavors, performers both local and national, etc. All the scrapbooks have been microfilmed and are available for use in that format.
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1933/1966
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC47 Presidents and Past Presidents Club Scrapbook Finding Aid
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Description
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The Presidents and Past Presidents Club of Greater Kansas City was formed in 1917 with Mrs. George W. Fuller as the first president. Membership was composed entirely of presidents and past presidents of women's clubs in Kansas City. The group did civic philanthropic work in Kansas City. This compilation contains typescript pages and illustrations including photographs. It contains signed vignettes and reminiscences concerning Kansas City, Missouri, history.
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Finding Aid
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SC8-1 Local Clubs Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Collections consisting of various rosters, programs, notes, membership cards, etc., of Kansas City area clubs.
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1870/1990
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC64 Kansas City Convention Programs Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This artificial collection contains approximately 100 programs of primarily national conventions of associations from throughout the United States held in Kansas City, Missouri, between the years 1903-1961. A few of the conventions were held in Kansas City, Kansas. The programs cover a wide range of organizations including agricultural, labor related, sports, home and retail, medical, educational, legal, religious, professional, and women's groups. The early convention programs include the Grand Army of the Republic, Missouri State Horticultural Society and the National Flower Show. One box has miscellaneous items such as newsletters, schedules, and brochures. Some of the larger programs may include photographs of Kansas City used to illustrate and promote.
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1903/1961
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC70 Youth Symphony of Kansas City Records Finding Aid
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Description
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The Youth Symphony of Kansas City was organized in April 1958, as an independent civic enterprise. The prospective members had to be recommended by their school music director or private music teacher. The charter states it was to be affiliated with the Kansas City Philharmonic, Missouri Federation of Music Clubs, the American Symphony Orchestra League, and the United States Youth Symphony Federation.The collection contains a number of different types of material covering the group's beginning and formative years, 1958-1970, including concert programs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, board minutes and budget reports. Other items include brochures, some of the group's publications, press releases, circulars/flyers, membership lists, a historical sketch, notices, photographs, and other types of miscellaneous items. Newspaper clippings provide coverage of the group's trip to Chicago in 1963, to Washington, D.C., and the World's Fair in New York in 1964, and to Barcelona, Spain, in 1969.
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Date
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1958/1970
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC176 Althea Club Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Althea Club Collection contains newspaper clippings related to the club and three of the organization's yearbooks.
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1914/1918
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC169 North American Aviation Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The North American Aviation Inc. operated a B-25 factory at the Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas from 1942-1945. This collection, donated by relatives of former North American Aviation employees, consists of issues of the plant's employee newsletter, notices sent to employees, and a patriotic music catalog.
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Date
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1942/1945
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC206 St. Mary's Episcopal Church Collection
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Description
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St. Mary’s Episcopal Church was organized in 1857 under the name St. Luke’s. The name was changed in 1879 to St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, and it absorbed St. George’s congregation in 1989. Since its beginning, the Church has had a significant role within the Kansas City community and Western Episcopal Diocese. This collection consists of records created and maintained by church leaders and parishioners.
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1828/2014
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC198 Florence Beal Bolte Willows Maternity Home Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains items relating to the Willows Maternity Home, which operated at 2929 Main in Kansas City, Missouri from 1905 to 1969. Also known as the Willows Maternity Sanitarium or the Willows Maternity Hospital, the institution served as an adoption service and private, temporary home for unwed mothers.
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Date
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1915/1930
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC63 Vertical Files Special Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Vertical Files Special Collection is an artificial collection that was compiled in the mid-1990s when items in the regular vertical files were withdrawn for preservation purposes to be reprocessed as a special collection. This collection consists of pamphlets, reports, articles, correspondence, and ephemera for businesses, organizations, homes, buildings, and people in the Kansas City area.
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1816/1990
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Finding Aid
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P7 Hughes Photograph Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection of amateur quality snapshots show familiar local landmarks like Union Station, the Kansas City Museum, Swope Park, etc. Also included are a few from the Kansas City, Kansas area.
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Date
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1915~
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Finding Aid
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SC181 Americana Study Club Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Americana Study Club Collection contains one publication listing club member names and addresses, as well as dates and program titles for the years, 1951-1952.
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1951/1952
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Finding Aid
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P4 Frank Ford Photograph Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The collection's 117 developed photographs and 51 glass plate negatives show scenes from around the turn of the twentieth century by local amateur photographer, Frank S. Ford. They include photographs which detail local events as well as rural, pastoral, and human interest views.
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Date
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1890~/1915~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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