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Title
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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
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Title
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Ethnic Festival
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Description
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Asian women in costume eating.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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18th and Vine Jazz Fest
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Description
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Unidentified women leaving Barker Temple Church (north of Highland and 19th) during festival.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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To Touch the Clouds
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Description
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Biographical article about secretary and pioneering woman pilot Betty Browning from Kansas City, Missouri, winner of the National Air Races in Los Angeles, beating seven other women pilots, with photos, including her acceptance of a trophy from Amelia Earhart, whom she replaced as one of the United States military's top female pilots, becoming involved in air mail with the Federal Bureau of Investigations in the late 1930s and in classified activities during World War II after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Magazine Article