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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view with children and women at shelves and tables.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Thacher School
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Description
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Partial frontal and side view, showing unidentified women on the grounds.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Miss Luella Wilcox Saint Clair Moss, or Luella Moss, "president emeritus of Christian College at Columbia," Missouri, and former college president for 25 years. Born in Illinois in 1865 and in 1881 "elected the first woman president of Christian College, founded in 1851, the fist college for women in Missouri to be granted a charter by the state legislature."
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas
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Description
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Photo and biographical description of Mary Tenney Gray, or Mary Gray (1833-1904), "[r]ecognized nationally as the mother of the Woman's Club Movement," a native of Pennsylvania arriving in Wyandotte, Kansas, in 1859 just after the town's incorporation in 1858 and during a convention for the constitution for the proposed state of Kansas. Description of her career as a teacher, newspaper writer and editor, and prominent women's social club organizer and leader, and her gravesite at Oak Grove Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Mrs. Jewell Wood Swofford, or Jewell Swofford, "chairman of the United States employes' [sic] compensation commission" since 1933. Native of Atchison, Kansas raised in Kansas City and marrying Ralph Powell Swofford, or Ralph Swofford before co-organizing "the Women's Jefferson Democratic Club of Kansas City."
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
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Description
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Photo and bio of Maude Waugh Henderson, "[p]rominent in both the Missouri Press Association and the Democratic Press Association of Missouri" as a writer and speaker. She was born in Iowa in 1876 and raised in Savannah, Missouri, becoming a magazine and newspaper writer and women's organization leader in La Plata, Missouri, and then Carrollton, Missouri.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Guadalupe Center
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Description
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Posed photograph of a group of young women.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Photograph