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Title
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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Mary Luann Jones Gant, "Missouri's first woman state senator" who was born in Kansas City in 1936. She started her career with the Missouri Department of Agriculture and became state representative in 1966 and state senator in 1972.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Book
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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Description
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Photo and bio of Marion Nevada Talley, or Marion Talley (1906-1983), an opera singer born in Nevada, Missouri and raised in Kansas City before moving to New York City and Hollywood, appearing in the 1936 movie "Follow Your Heart."
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Date
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1993
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Description
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Biographical sketches of Dr. Alice Berry Graham (or Alice Graham, a dentist) and her sister Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson (or Katharine Richardson, a physician), founders of Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City in the late 1800s.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Book
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Joan Crawford
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Joan Crawford (1906-1977), a movie actress starting in 1925 with silent pictures, growing up in Kansas City. Description of her life and career, moving to Kansas City in 1917 from Oklahoma, attending the Scarritt School and Saint Agnes school before working at and attending the Rockingham Academy in Kansas City and Stephens College in Columbia while developing as an actress and dancer. Description of her successful movie career through the 1930s and decline with family troubles documented in the book and movie, "Mommie Dearest."
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Book Section