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Title: Franklin School
Description: Interior view of kindergarten class at the Franklin School. The school was named for Benjamin Franklin and was located at 1325 Washington Street.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost School Kindergarten
Description: Interior view of children working on various activities at the Troost School kindergarten.
Date: 1940-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost School Kindergarten
Description: Interior view of children in the Troost School kindergarten room.
Date: 1940-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost School Kindergarten
Description: Interior view of children doing art work at the Troost School kindergarten.
Date: 1940-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost School Kindergarten
Description: Interior view of students in the Troost School kindergarten.
Date: 1940-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost School Kindergarten
Description: Interior view of Troost School kindergarten with children doing craft projects.
Date: 1940-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Troost School Kindergarten
Description: Interior view of teacher and unidentified students at the Troost School kindergarten class.
Date: 1940-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Obituary for Elizabeth B. Daigle
Description: 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.
Date: 2004-11-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Deaths: Miss Ethel Walker
Description: 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.
Date: 1967-04-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Manchester Kindergarten Class
Description: Interior classroom view of pupils and teacher Miss Louise Hornbrook at the Manchester School Kindergarten class. Students are identified by name and address.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Scarritt School Kindergarten
Description: Kindergarten girls washing their dolls and doll clothing. Each child is identified on a separate sheet that accompanies the photograph. The teacher was Rosa Mezzacasa.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Karnes School Kindergarten
Description: Interior view of children shown brushing their teeth with a teacher. Identified as the Karnes School kindergarten.
Date: 1910~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Yeager School Kindergarten
Description: Interior view of unidentified Yeager School kindergarten students participating in a zoo activity.
Date: 1939~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Van Horn School Kindergarten Class
Description: Interior view of a a kindergarten class at Van Horn School. Room is identified as the assembly hall. Students are not identified. This photo appears in the Forty-Second Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the School District of Kansas City, Missouri, for the Year Ending June 30, 1913 [p. 94].
Date: 1913~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Deaths: Mrs. Sarah Rawlings
Description: 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.
Date: 1946-06-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Deaths: Mrs. Sarah Rawlings
Description: Teacher Rawlings was "one of the first students to attend Froebels school in Baltimore where pupils were taught to train kindergarten classes."
Date: 1946-06-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Across Our Wide Missouri: Kindergarten Founder
Description: 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.
Date: 1980-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Official Manual: State of Missouri, 1971-1972
Description: 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.
Date: 1972
Object Type: Book