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Title
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Women Who've Changed the Heart of the City
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Description
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Profile of six Kansas City women who have helped shape the world of philanthropy in Kansas City, Missouri. Includes Anita Gorman, Shirley Helzberg, Mamie Hughes, Carol Marinovich, Jeannette Nichols, and Beulah Bulkley. Includes images.
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Date
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2008-04-12
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Unidentified Group Portrait
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Description
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Group portrait of nine women seated in front of an unidentified building. The center figure in the back row appears to be seated in a wheelchair.
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Date
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1900~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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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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SC199 ’81 Club Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection includes meeting minutes, programs, scrapbooks and other materials relating to the ’81 Club, a Kansas City women’s club founded by Sarah Chandler Coates in 1881.
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Date
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1886/2019
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Colgate Palmolive Baseball Team
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Description
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Group of baseball players for the Colgate Palmolive team in an unidentified location.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Ladies' Wide-Awake Club
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Description
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Portrait of a group of women identified as the Ladies' Wide-Awake Club. The location is perhaps Albany, Missouri. A newspaper clipping with the photograph contains a reprint of the picture with identification as the following: Back row standing left to right - Callie Hunter, Lizzie Austin, Dora Twist, Woodie Garvin, Bernice Cranor, Nannie Perry, Delia Kier, Hattie Branham. Front row sitting, right to left - Lola Twist, Mary Curren, Bola Williams, Cassie Larmer, Florence Scarbrough, Nettie McIntosh, Laura Blakey, Lena Lyons, and Alice Howell.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC160 Kansas City Athenaeum Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Founded in 1894 through a collaboration of existing women’s clubs, the Kansas City Athenaeum is one of the oldest women’s organizations in the area. The Kansas City Athenaeum Collection contains minutes, yearbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, operational and financial records, clubhouse information and building plans, and ephemera documenting the history of the club.
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Date
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1894/2012
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Woman Seated at Desk
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Description
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Informal portrait of woman at desk, identified by writing on photo as Mrs. Reeves.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The Guerrilla Shirt
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Description
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Article analyzing Missouri guerrilla fighters and how their choice of clothing expressed purpose, identity, and connections to close female friends and relatives. Many guerrilla fighters such as "Bloody" Bill Anderson wore highly-decorated shirts made by sisters, mothers, and wives. These shirts set them apart from other civilians and military personnel, and served as signals that women back home supported their cause.
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Date
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2012-06
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Object Type
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Magazine