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Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: Biography of female architect Nelle E. Peters (1884-1974), a designer of Kansas City "apartment buildings and hotels, particularly in the 1920s."
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Leona Pouncey Thurman (1911-1985), Attorney
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Mary T. Farrow (1880-1971), Attorney
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Nelle Nichols Peters (1884-1974), Architect
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Bess Truman
Description: Story of the extremity of change in gender roles during Bess Truman's lifetime, from 1884 to 1981.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Biography of Carolyn Doughty (1882-1975), Women's Club Administrator
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: The Ladies of Lawrence are Arming!: The Gendered Nature of Sectional Violence in Early Kansas
Description: Chapter of the book about border warfare involving women in 1850s Kansas Territory, discussing the active part of women in antislavery violence and other activity, promoting the entrance of Kansas into the Union as a free state.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: The Whitley Sisters Remember: Living with Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Biography of Avis Elida Smith (1851-1941), Physician
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Annie J. Scott (1876-??), Missionary, Doctor, and Real Estate Developer
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Carolyn Farwell Fuller (1875-1944), Member of the Kansas City Board of Education
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: Biography of Nell Donnelly Reed (1889-1991), a pioneer woman clothing designer and entrepreneur, starting the Donnelly Garment Company in the 1910s and leading it to "one of the largest in the nation" for garment labels by the 1950s, remarried in the 1930s to James A. Reed.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Rose Mindlin Jacobson (1877-1951), Retail Entrepreneur
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Minnie Lee Crosthwaite (1872-1963), Social Worker and Community Leader
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Patricia McIlrath (1917-1999), Founder of the Missouri Repertory Theater
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Mary Elizabeth Colter (1869-1958), Architect and Designer
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Biography of Lyda Conley (1874-1946), Guardian of Huron Cemetery
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

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