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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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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 70 with Flowers and Women in Traditional Costume
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards and a newspaper clipping. The clipping says: "Mr. Nathan Degginger of Kansas City was in our office on Saturday. He and his sister, Bertha, always take in the Sparks Picnic. This is their old home and they have many friends here." Four oval cards each show a woman in the traditional dress of an unidentified country. Two cards show a hand and flowers, one with a fan. One large (18 x 22 cm.) card shows a basket of flowers.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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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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Early Kansas City Architects: Alice G. Jackson
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Alice Jackson, an early architect in Kansas City. She was born in Illinois in 1863 and did not start her architectural career until she was almost 50 years old. Description of her life and career, coming to Kansas City about 1910 and likely designing her first house at 3914 Tracy Avenue, continuing to design other residences into the 1920s, including some in the Squire Manor development east of Midtown, the 600 block of Westover Road, 5408 Central Street, 3420 Coleman Road, and 200 West 53rd Street (nearly all in one of three styles: Prairie School, English cottage, or Swiss chalet).
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Date
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1979-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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
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Title
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Conover Brothers Co.
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Description
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Advertising card for Conover Brothers Co. showing a woman in a fancy blue dress with a corsage and necklace. Front of card says: "Compliments of the Fischer Piano. For Sale By Conover Bros. Sole Agents." Front lower left corner has number 722 and lower right corner says: "Bufford." Back of card has an image of a Fischer Piano and says: "The Fischer [Piano]. 73,000 in use." and has five testimonials. Address given on front of card:
613 Main Street,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
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Description
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Advertising card for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. showing a baby in a nest surrounded by five women or girls in fancy dress looking down on it. One of four cards with similar theme. Back of card lists branch houses and their addresses in cities around the U.S. Kansas City address given on back of card:
927 Main St.,
Kansas City, Mo.
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Date
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1882
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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