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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of female architect Nelle E. Peters (1884-1974), a designer of Kansas City "apartment buildings and hotels, particularly in the 1920s."
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), a poet born in Saint Louis, Missouri, one of the nation's most prominent female poets from the 1900s to the 1930s.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Bess Truman
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Description
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Story of the extremity of change in gender roles during Bess Truman's lifetime, from 1884 to 1981.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of Sarah Lucille Turner (1898-1972), "[o]ne of the first two women in the Missouri House of Representatives, starting in the 1920s, and "personnel manager" of "Newsweek" magazine as secretary of publisher Malcolm Muir from the late 1920s to the 1950s.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Whitley Sisters Remember: Living with Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Article about the Whitley sisters, a representative group of black women experiencing racial segregation in Kansas City during the "Great Migration" of blacks to northern industrial cities in the 1920s and 1930s, also with much information about the sisters' East Side neighborhood.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of Katharine Berry Richardson (1858-1933), the founder of Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, established in 1899, and along with her sister Alice Berry Graham, founder of Mercy Wheatley Hospial for Negroes.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City: An American Story
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the World War II era in Kansas City and economic resurgence through the military industrial effort, with several photos and illustrations, including women entering the work force en masse for the first time.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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YWCA Children's Center
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Description
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Street level view identified as the YWCA (Young Womens Christian Association) Children's Center Campus for the Visually Impaired located at the southeast corner of 31st and Main streets in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Photograph
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