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Title: Results of County Planning: Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Photo of "one of the leading poultry farms [with house and barns, etc.] in Jackson County--planned by T. E. Quisenberry and now owned by John B. Bray of the Phillips Hotel."
Date: 1932
Object Type: Book

Title: Nelle Peters
Description: Photo and bio of Nelle Elizabeth Nichols Peters, or Nelle Peters (1884-1974), an early woman architect in Kansas City designing mainly hotel and apartment buildings. Native of North Dakota coming to Kansas City in 1909 shortly before opening her own office, marrying William Peters ("a designer for the Kansas City Terminal Railroad"), and forming an association with Charles Phillips, owner of the real estate development business of the Phillips Building Company.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: Portrait and bio of Agnes Rouse (1873-1933), or Lena Rouse, "the first woman to hold a seat on the Kansas City Livestock Exchange." Native of Scotland emigrating to Kansas City in 1878 and taking her late husband's seat on the exchange in 1897, with offices in the Livestock Exchange Building at 1600 Genesee Street for her business, "the A. H. Rouse Commission Company," residing at the Phillips Hotel.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 3]
Description: Volume three of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 1]
Description: Volume one of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 2]
Description: Volume two of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book