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Title: The Negro in Kansas City
Description: 1944 Survey of African-American community in Kansas City designed to "bring to light facts regarding problems which face the Negro in Kansas City, Missouri, and which are not commonly known by the public." Authors were the Broadside Study Group of League of Women Voters. Topics include education, health and welfare, housing and sanitation, cultural and recreation facilities, labor and employment, and public service. The survey ends with recommendations and a resources / bibliography section.
Date: 1944-04
Object Type: Book

Title: Unidentified Women
Description: Unidentified women.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Indian Women
Description: Snapshot view of two women in Indian costume. Identified by Montgomery as Kelly Miller, 1956, Engleman sisters. Date on front of photograph, Aug. 1959.
Date: 1959
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Inspiring Women
Description: Pamphlet about St. Teresa's Academy contains a timeline with photos and drawings chronicling the history of the school from its establishment on August 4, 1866. It also includes information on the current status of the school.
Date: 2010~
Object Type: Pamphlet

Title: Enterprising Women
Description: Chapter in the book which highlights both Ida Rosenthal, founder of Maindenform, Inc., and Kansas City's Nell Donnelly Reed and her Nelly Don dresses.
Date: 1976
Object Type: Book

Title: Know Your County
Description: Description of the incorporation of Jackson County on December 15, 1826, its area "severed from Lafayette County" and "named for that great popular hero of the time, Andrew Jackson. The county seat was christened Independence probably because Jackson had a fiercely independent quality."
Date: 1969
Object Type: Book

Title: Women Get Their Due
Description: Photo (of a woman's painting in the Nelson Gallery of Art) and book review of "Woman Artists: An Historical, Contemporary and Feminist Bibliography" by Sherry Piland and Donna Bachman. Discussion of the neglected role of female artists in history with the example of Grace Hartigan being the only woman artist with art exhibitied in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, etc.
Date: 1979-03-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Men and Women Dancing
Description: Unidentified man and woman dancing.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Forrest Tucker and Women
Description: Portrait of entertainer Forrest Tucker with two unidentified women at unidentified South Central Business Association event.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Helen Thomes and Women
Description: Exterior view on beach of dance teacher Helen Thomes and two women, Marjory Pickthall and Mrs. Hagenow?. Note with photographs says "Dance School - Pavley-Oukrainsky came to U.S. from Russia & had school on shore of Lake Michigan for two years".
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women atop Parade Float
Description: Women representing various U.S. states riding atop a float sponsored by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce during an unidentified parade. Side of float reads: "Host...Midwest Major League Baseball." Nu-Vac Furnace Company building is visible in background.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Outdoor Portrait of Women
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men and women at an unidentified park shelter. A woman holds a sign that reads "Wilson and Co. Plant Girls Picnic, 1920."
Date: 1920
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Costumed Women on Horseback
Description: Women in costume on horseback near Kansas City Bicycle Company, located at 1027 Broadway.
Date: 1895
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women Feeding Uniformed Men
Description: Unidentified female Army workers supplying food and drink to uniformed men during 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women Making Sandwiches
Description: Unidentified female Army workers and other women making sandwiches during 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women Sorting Clothing
Description: Interior view of unidentified women and children sorting through boxes of clothing during 1951 flood.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Women in Rose Garden
Description: Unidentified women seated in shelter house in Rose Garden, flowers in bloom.
Date: 1940
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Men and Women
Description: Informal group snapshot of five men and two women identified from left to right as Ruth Grubbs, ?, J. T. Wilson, C R Knox, ? & Wheeler. They are posed outside of unidentified clapboard building in Marceline, Missouri.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Social Gathering of Women
Description: Interior view, Meyer home at 5523 Oak Street. Unidentified women's gathering. Names of women not given.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Social Gathering of Women
Description: Interior view of Meyer home at 5523 Oak Street. Women in view are not identified. Appears to be some type of social gathering.
Date: 1960~
Object Type: Photograph

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