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Title: Obituary for Miss Maurine Fairweather
Description: Obituary for Miss Maurine Fairweather, a librarian at the Westport High School library, dying on March 8, 1973.
Date: 1973-03-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Life Begets Life At Northeast's Library
Description: Feature on the North-East branch of the Kansas City Public Library and in particular the new children's librarian, Steven Knapp. Includes his picture as well as branch manager Claudia Visnich.
Date: 2005-10-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Group Photo in front of the E. F. Swinney School/Branch Library
Description: Group portrait of a group of children and a woman (possibly a teacher or librarian) standing in front of the E. F. Swinney Public School building.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library, Swinney Branch
Description: Unidentified female staff member conducting story hour for group of children.
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Banquet, Missouri Library Association
Description: Group shot of a dinner meeting at the Hotel Continental for what is believed to be the Missouri Library Association. Music provided by man in back holding an accordion.
Date: 1944-11-01
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Library Related Parade Float
Description: 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.
Date: 1950~/1969~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: 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.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Painting Honors Beloved Librarian
Description: Article describes dedication of painting of Irene Ruiz at Irene H. Ruiz Biblioteca de las Americas on August 4, 2006.
Date: 2006-08-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Biography of Carrie Westlake Whitney (?-1934), Librarian and Director of the Kansas City Public Library
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Carrie Westlake Whitney
Description: 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.
Date: 2010-05-26
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Purd Wright
Description: 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.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book Section

Title: One for the Books
Description: Article profiling 102-year old Martha Smith who in 1926 took a job at the Coal Creek Library in Vinland, Kansas, and 82 years later, still comes to work there. The Coal Creek Library was founded in 1859 and is "now the oldest continuous library in Kansas."
Date: 2008-08-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Collection on the Move
Description: Article summarizes the movement of materials belonging to the Marr Sound Archives from their current location to the automated storage and retrieval system added to the Miller Nichols Library in 2011. Plans for assigning each of its thousands of records and other items a digital identity and preserving them for the future are detailed. Chuck Haddix, director of the Marr Sound Archives, and Stuart Hinds, director of the Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections, are interviewed and describe the project. A brief history of the collection is provided.
Date: 2014-02-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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