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Title
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Kansas City Crime Central
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Description
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This 232-page book details crimes and criminals in Kansas City area from Union Station Massacre and Bonnie and Clyde to the more recent Ali Kemp and Erica Gree (Precious Doe).
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Date
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2010
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Nell Donnelly Reed (Mrs. James A.)
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Description
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Information about Nelly Don, the brand name of the Donnelly Garment Company, started by Nell Donnelly Reed in Kansas City.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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The Nelly Don Affair
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Description
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Photos and article highlight a new documentary film and book about the life of Nell Donnelly Reed and the garment factory she established in the early 1900s. Terence O'Malley, a Kansas City lawyer and a great-great nephew of Nell Donnelly Reed, produced the film called ''Nelly Don: A Stitch in Time'' and companion book. Reed died in 1991 at the age of 102.
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Date
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2006-05-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Get the Other Gang
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Description
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Story of the kidnapping and safe return of Nell Donnelly with the aid of a "North Side leader" associated with "Kansas City's recognized and organized underworld."
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Date
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1931-12-26
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the apartments on the Country Club Plaza and Armour Boulevard managed by the Assured Rental Company (led by George Goldman and Herman Shapiro), in the city's "South Side," voting against the Pendergast ticket City Council nominees. Apartment buildings involved including "the White Hall apartments, 323 Brush Creek boulevard; the Alcazar, 101 West [39th Street]," and "the Armour Plaza apartments, 1216 East Armour boulevard, and the Ricardo, 811 East Armour boulevard." Other featured articles include: “Ah! Union!” (p. 3), about the 1936 election for Missouri state senator, with Bennett Clark winning over Pendergast candidate Charles Howell despite being "robbed of 20,000 votes in Kansas City"; and “May We Present Bryson Ayres” (p. 5), a photo and profile of Bryson Ayres, an Independence florist and anti-Pendergast activist born in Missouri and growing up in the Pacific Northwest before coming to Kansas City; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-06-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Top 10 Women Who Changed Missouri
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Description
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Short biographical vignettes of ten women who influenced not only Missouri but the country, some the world. Women included are: Annie Turnbo Malone (1869-1957), one of first Black female millionaires; Susan Blow (1843-1916), creator of kindergartens; Gergy Cori (1896-1957), first woman to win a nobel prize in medicine; Helen Stephens (1918-1994), an Olympic gold medal winner; Annie White Baxter (1864-1944), first woman in the U.S. to ever be elected to the office of county clerk and 30 years before women received the right to vote; Jane Froman (1907-1980), overcame many obstacles to become one of the most beloved entertainers of her time; Edna Gellhorn (1878-1970), activist and civic leader; Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), author and literary legend; Nell Donnelly Reed (1889-1991), creator of stylish fashions for women; and Louise Stanley (1883-1954), mother of home economics.
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Date
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2012-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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See Inside Nelly Don's Home!
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Description
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Advertisement for the Kansas City Symphony Designers' Showhouse number 40, the former home of Nell Donnelly Reed, owner of the Nelly Don fashion business. Includes a short history of the house, located at 5236 Cherry, and picture of the outside.
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Date
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2009-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Tough Nut to Crack: Unionization and the Donnelly Garment Company
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Description
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Article describes attempts by the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) to organize the Donnelly Garment Company in Kansas City. The author argues that the long battle between the company and union was "above all a clash of political and social ideologies."
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Date
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2002
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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James A. Reed, Legendary Lawyer; Marplot in the United States Senate
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Description
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Biography on the life and legacy of James A. Reed. Born in Ohio in 1861, Reed moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1887. A prominent local lawyer, Reed served as Mayor from 1900-1904 and then as a Democratic Senator from Missouri from 1910-1929. He returned to Kansas City in 1929 after a failed presidential bid in 1928. Reed died in 1944 at the age of 83. Manuscript
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Date
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2016
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of Nell Donnelly Reed (1889-1991), a pioneer woman clothing designer and entrepreneur, starting the Donnelly Garment Company in the 1910s and leading it to "one of the largest in the nation" for garment labels by the 1950s, remarried in the 1930s to James A. Reed.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
