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Title: Negro Librarian at Lincoln High
Description: 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."
Date: 1941-01-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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: 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.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: 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.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: 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.
Date: 1955~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: 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.
Date: 1955~
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: Father of Miss Capitola Jones Dies in Topeka
Description: 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.
Date: 1952-03-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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: Local Libraries Offer Up Much More than Books
Description: Article describes various initiatives by Kansas City-area public libraries to introduce new technologies and diversified programming in order to attract patrons and remain relevant in an age when book circulation is declining. One new technology spotlighted is the Expresso Book Machine at the Mid-Continent Public Library's Woodneath Branch, which prints and binds self-published manuscripts. The Kansas City (MO) Public Library system provides a wide range of programs, such as lectures, films, exhibits and theatrical productions, to attract new patrons to its locations. Likewise, the Cass County Public Library has placed a greater emphasis on its public programming and community outreach.
Date: 2014-02-26
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: Kansas City Public Library
Description: 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.
Date: 2001-12
Object Type: Photograph

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

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