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Title
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Lincoln Branch Library
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Description
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File contains items related to the Lincoln Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, including a history of the branch, and newspaper coverage of the collection's move to the Missouri Valley Room at the Central Library (then located at 311 E. 12th Street), to be renamed the Ramos Collection, after Dr. John F. Ramos. Includes information about Mrs. Mildred Robinson, the first African American librarian in the Kansas City School District, and Priscilla Burd, who was the librarian at Lincoln School from 1926 to 1941.
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Date
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1930~/1979~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Lincoln High School Library
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Description
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Postcard view of the interior of the Lincoln Library Branch at Lincoln High School. Figures are seated at desks in the background.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Lincoln High School Career Day Display
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Description
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View of a Lincoln High School Career Day display. Names of featured on the display are: Wallace R. Kidd - Entomologist; Gwendolyn Freeman - Pre-Medic; Jerry Evans - Electronic Engineer; Eloise B. Allen - Orthoptist; Myrtle Nixon - Home Economics Teacher; Edward R. Pate - President of Radio Station KPRS; John S. Williams - Minister and Singer; Basil O. Phillips - Photo Researcher; William P. Stevenson - Pharmacist; Josephine Mayberry - Medical Social Worker.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Lincoln High School
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Description
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File contains programs from commencements, community nights, award days and other events. It also contains Report of Lincoln Branch Library's Participation in the Lincoln High School Career Day Conference, photographs, and a copy of the student handbook for 1927-1928 and 1956-1957.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Lincoln High School Sports
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Description
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File contains programs from Lincoln High School annual athletic/sports Banquets of 1954 and 1961 and a group portrait of the Lincoln High School Basketball Team of 1951.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Lincoln High School and Junior College
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Description
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File contains student handbooks, commencement programs, brochures about adult education, and bulletins for the high school and junior college. There is also a program for an event honoring H.O. Cook.
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Date
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1946/1956
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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H.O. Cook
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Description
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File contains an invitation worded: "The Faculty of Lincoln High School invites you and your friends to witness a presentation of 'A Man, a Life, an Inspiration' and the Distinguished Service Medal awared by the Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers to Mr. H.O. Cook, Lincoln High School Auditorum". Event appears to have taken place in May, 1940. Also includes another program in which the Lincoln High School faculty honored Mr. Cook, referred to as the "Bridge Builder".
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Vertical File
