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Title
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Library Related Parade Float
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Description
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Exterior view of a parade float with nine women on it, identically dressed. Sign on side of float reads: "Operation Library" with additional lettering for Arkansas. Location and event not identified.
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Date
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1950~/1969~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes two librarians assisting two adults at the library card sign up table, most unidentified. Exact location in library not given, but appears to be by the fireplace in perhaps the front entrance area. Woman on the left is believed to be Helen Mahurin.
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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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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View believed to have been taken in the Reference area with a sign in the background denoting "Missouri Room." Adults and baby in view are unidentified, except woman on the far left is believed to be librarian Lorraine Crouse.
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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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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes a librarian, an African American man as well as two African American children, all unidentified. Exact location in library not given, may be the children's or youth area.
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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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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes adults as well as two African American children, all unidentified. Woman on the left, assumed to be a librarian, is holding a 78 rpm record. Exact location in library not given.
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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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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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An interior view of unidentified people in the cataloging office at the Kansas City Public Library, Main branch at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1940~/1949~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view taken at the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 48th and Main in the Country Club Plaza. In view is a plaque which appears to be attached to the wall, exact location not given. It reads: "In Appreciation Elizabeth Johnson Storyteller to the Children of Kansas City." Johnson was a former children's librarian at the Plaza branch.
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Date
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2001-12
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Carrie Westlake Whitney
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Description
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Transcript of a presentation given at The Kansas City Public Library sponsored by the Women's City Club. Carrie Westlake Whitney was the first librarian of The Kansas City Public Library and the author of a three-volume history of Kansas City.
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Date
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2010-05-26
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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Purd Wright
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Description
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Biographical description of Purd Wright, "a young printer," who came to Saint Joseph, Missouri, about 1877 from Cameron, Missouri. Later Wright became "the librarian of the first public library in St. Joseph and the state of Missouri." In 1900 he became librarian of the public library in Kansas City.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Book Section
