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Earl Beck
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File containing photos and multiple articles about Earl Beck, "recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia" as appointed by his personal friend, President Harry Truman. Beck was an African American real estate businessman born in Wamego, Kansas about 1890 with residence later in Kansas City at 2147 East 24th Street and became superintendent of the county Parental Home for Negro Boys and Girls.
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Kansas City Cradle
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Information on the Kansas City Cradle, a child care and placement agency or organization (associated with the Council of Social Agencies during World War II) that began in 1915 as "the Harry M. Evans Children's Home Society" at 520 Woodland Avenue and partially moved in 1934 to the Eastside Maternity Hospital at 4911 East 27th Street before changing names to the Kansas City Cradle in 1936. At the end of 1936 it moved to a new building at 4321 Wornall Road. It disbanded in 1945 and became an affiliate of St. Luke's hospital.
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Saint Joseph's Orphan Home of Kansas City, Missouri
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Includes a photocopy of a 1906 pamphlet called "11th Annual Picnic, St. Joseph's Orphan Home, 31st and Jefferson Streets, Kansas City, Mo." The pamphlet has pictures of Reverend J. J. Glennon, Father Donnelly, and Reverend Mother Agatha, Guthrie. File also contains articles and a short history of the home.
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Vertical File
