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Title
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Negro Librarian at Lincoln High
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Description
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Vertical file containing a biographical article about Miss Mildred Kimbrough, newly appointed head librarian at the "Lincoln high school branch library," succeeding Miss Priscilla Burd, "white, who for 15 years has headed the Negro library." Kimbrough was a graduate of Lincoln High School in Kansas City before becoming a librarian in Springfield, Missouri and then in Kansas City starting in 1936. Her assistant was Miss Capitola Jones, "in charge of the children's room."
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Date
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1941-01-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Obituary for Miss Maurine Fairweather
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Description
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Obituary for Miss Maurine Fairweather, a librarian at the Westport High School library, dying on March 8, 1973.
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Date
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1973-03-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Life Begets Life At Northeast's Library
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2005-10-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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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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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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Father of Miss Capitola Jones Dies in Topeka
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Description
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Vertical file containing an obituary for John Paul Jones, a Kansas City lawyer dying at the age of 96 on March 7, 1952. Jones was born in a log cabin "of slave parentage" and "was licensed to practiced [law] in the state of Illinois" in 1888. He came to Kansas City as "the first Negro to become licensed to practice [law] in the state of Missouri" and in 1939 became "the first Negro" to be admitted to practice in the Supreme Court. He also published a political magazine called the "Paul Jones Magazine" for several years. One of his surviving daughters, Miss Capitolia Jones, "children's librarian at the Lincoln branch library" of the Kansas City Public Library.
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Date
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1952-03-14
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Painting Honors Beloved Librarian
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Description
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Article describes dedication of painting of Irene Ruiz at Irene H. Ruiz Biblioteca de las Americas on August 4, 2006.
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Date
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2006-08-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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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
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Title
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One for the Books
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Description
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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."
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Date
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2008-08-30
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article