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Title
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The Enigma of a Painting
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Description
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Article about the portrait believed to be of Leannah Kearns, commonly known as brothel madam Annie Chambers (1843-1935), describing her life, entering Kansas City and the prostitution business in about 1870.
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Date
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1973-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Description of Kansas City in 1880
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Description
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Chapter of the book about "Old West" Kansas City, complete with gunfighters, shady saloons, muddy streets, and sightings of Wild Bill Hickok. Includes a list of bordellos and saloons and their occupants, including Annie Chambers (p. 29-30) and a description of the early newspapers like the Enterprise and Journal. One paragraph describes origin of the term Kansas "red legs" (p. 33).
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Past Lives: Inside Annie's Chambers
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Description
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Article about the large house serving as a residence and place of business for Annie Chambers, a prominent Kansas City madam, at 3rd and Wyandotte Streets. Photo and description of the house, later demolished, and her life, struck with a "triple tragedy" as a young woman, with the deaths of two infants followed by her husband's death, all in a short span of time in Lexington, Kentucky, before her career in prostitution.
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Date
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1979-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Lady Revealed
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Description
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Article about the secret identities and hidden pasts of former mistresses and real estate women Louise Heorath (born in 1866 as Cora Totty) and Annie Chambers (born in 1843 as Leannah Kearns), around 1900.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
