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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: 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: 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: 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: Kansas City: An American Story
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: YWCA Children's Center
Description: 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.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Baltimore Hotel Profile
Date: 1999

Title: Central High School Yearbook - The Centralian
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Central High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Ruskin High School Yearbook - Mirage
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Ruskin High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Saint Teresa's Academy High School Yearbook - Teresian
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of St. Teresa's Academy High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Southeast High School Yearbook - The Crusader
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Southeast High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Center High School Yearbook - The Yellowjacket
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Center High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Hickman Mills High School Yearbook - The Pride
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Hickman Mills High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Paseo High School Yearbook - Paseon
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Paseo High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Lincoln High School Yearbook - The Lincolnian
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Lincoln High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Yearbook - Lair
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

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