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Title
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Obituary for Elizabeth B. Daigle
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Description
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Daigle was a kindergarten teacher at Wendell Phillips, D.A. Holmes Elementary, and other schools in the area, as well as being an early pioneer in the Head Start Program.
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Date
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2004-11-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Deaths: Miss Ethel Walker
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Description
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Obituary for Miss Ethel Walker, "4949 Tracy, an educator here 50 years." Native of Illinois coming to Kansas City about 1900 and teaching at kindergartens in the Kansas City School District from 1904 to 1954.
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Date
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1967-04-17
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Deaths: Mrs. Sarah Rawlings
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Description
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Sarah Esmond Mott Rawlings opened the first kindergarten in Kansas City. It was thought to be the first of its kind west of the Mississippi River.
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Date
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1946-06-27
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Deaths: Mrs. Sarah Rawlings
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Description
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Teacher Rawlings was "one of the first students to attend Froebels school in Baltimore where pupils were taught to train kindergarten classes."
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Date
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1946-06-27
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Across Our Wide Missouri: Kindergarten Founder
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Description
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Biographical article about 19th century teacher Miss Susan Elizabeth Blow, or Susan Blow (1843-1916), founder of America's first kindergarten, in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1873, describing her innovations to American education partially inspired from her trips to Germany and other European countries.
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Date
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1980-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Official Manual: State of Missouri, 1971-1972
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Description
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Illustration and biographical sketch of Susan Elizabeth Blow, or Susan Blow, the founder of kindergarten schools in the United States, bringing the idea from Germany to Saint Louis in the 1870s, initially working without pay in children's education.
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Date
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1972
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Object Type
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Book
