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Title: Thacher School
Description: Partial frontal and side view, showing unidentified women on the grounds.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Description: Biographical sketch of Lucille Duval, "deputy commissioner of labor [of Missouri], with office at St. Joseph," born in Iowa, graduating from the University of Kansas, and "[w]idely recognized as one of Missouri's outstanding women."
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Description: 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."
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Description: Biographical sketch of Anna Lee McClanahan Faris, a leader of various women's political organizations in Missouri, including the position of president of "the first meeting of the Women's Democratic State Committee meeting in Jefferson City." She was born in Cass County, Missouri, in 1873 and resided in Saint Louis.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Description: Biographical sketch of Annette Moore, co-organizer of "the Women's Jefferson Democratic Club" following women's suffrage in 1920. Born in Quebec, Canada and raised in Missouri before becoming a lawyer in Kansas City in 1917.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Description: Biographical sketch of Anne Richardson Hall Curdy, or Anne Curdy, the wife of Robert James Curdy, "a past president of the Women's Jefferson Democratic Club of Kansas City and a past president of the Federation of Democratic Clubs of Missouri," born in Saint Joseph and moving to Kansas City in 1899.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas
Description: 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.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Description: 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."
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Description: 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.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book