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Title
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Social Prospectus of Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Report prepared by the Research Bureau of the Board of Public Welfare chronicling the description, demographics, industries, churches, schools, recreational activities, housing, social services available and other problems affecting seven Kansas City districts. The authors of the report pay special attention to the city's immigrant and African American communities. A broad general prospectus of the entire city is also provided. The report contains several photographs and maps provided to illustrate the nature and extant of social and health problems affecting Kansas Citians. The districts covered by the report are: the North West, the North Side, the West Side, the Swope Settlement, the Hospital, Penn Valley and the East Side.
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Date
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1913
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Grimy Hands Learn to Love Needlework
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Description
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Article profiling the work of Mrs. J. M. Curtice teaching children of immigrants to sew at the Swope Settlement House, located at 16th and Campbell. Curtice is described by the author as one of the pioneers of Swope Settlement, and in 1916 had a class of 60 girls between the ages of 6 and 14 years who visited the house twice a week for classes.
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Date
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1916-12-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Swope Settlement
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Description
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Interior view of boys in a woodmaking class at the Thomas H. Swope Settlement located at 1608-10 Campbell Street according to the 1930 Kansas City city directory.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Swope Settlement
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Description
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Interior view of children in cribs and on the floor at the Thomas H. Swope Settlement located at 1608-10 Campbell Street according to the 1930 Kansas City city directory.
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Date
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1930~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Swope Settlement
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Description
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Folder includes two different brochure type publications, one being a fold-out with numerous photographs included. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
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Date
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1925~
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Thomas H. Swope: Early Newspaper Clippings
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Description
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A collection of 98 pages of photocopied newspaper articles from Kansas City newspapers centered on various aspects of the life of Thomas H. Swope, including his rise as a businessman, his philanthropic activities, his murder, and his memorial in Swope Park. Each article is annotated with its source and date of publication.
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Date
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1902/1948
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Object Type
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Newspaper 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
