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Wheatley School (Ramos Collection)
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Description
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File contains program from Dedication and Open House of Phillis Wheatley School, May 26, 1955.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Lafayette A. Tillman
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Description
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The Ramos Lincoln Collection vertical files have two files for Lafayette Tillman. One contains correspondence from Tillman to his wife, Portia, daughter June, and to his attorney, concerning his pension. There is a card from Nagasaki, Japan, sent in 1901 and letters from Camp Haskell in Georgia, San Francisco, and the Philippines, while in the service. The second file has photographs.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Black Studies Research Center
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Description
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File contains a general statement and goals and objectives for a Kansas City Public Library sponsored Black Studies Research Center. The core of this center would be the library's Ramos Collection.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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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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Lafayette A. Tillman Standing Portrait with Others
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Description
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Outdoor portrait of Lafayette A. Tillman wearing his army uniform and carring a rifle. A boy identified as Frank Jones Jr. is standing next to Tillman. Amy Tillman, his wife, is seated next to Jones. A tent is visible in the background.
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Date
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1898
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Lafayette A. Tillman Portrait
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Description
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Standing portrait of Lafayette A. Tillman wearing a police uniform and holding a baton, or night stick.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Men and Horse-Drawn Cart
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Description
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Postcard view of five men seated atop and standing near a horse-drawn cart loaded with tools. A sign for Iner Seal is painted on a brick wall in the background.
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Date
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1910~
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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Lafayette A. Tillman Portrait
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Description
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Formal head and shoulders portrait of Lafayette A. Tillman wearing a police uniform.
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Date
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1914
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Teacher and Children - Santa Claus Lesson
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Description
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View of an unidentified teacher leading a group of unidentified children in a lesson about Santa Claus at an unidentified school. A Christmas tree and other decorations can be seen in the background.
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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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Edward R. Pate
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Description
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View of radio broadcaster Edward R. Pate conducting an interview. Pate is surrounded by children and other figures.
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Date
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1960~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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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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Known And Unknown Colored Soldiers And Sailors Civil War Marker - Woodland Cemetery
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Description
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View of a marker dedicated to known and unknown Black soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War in Woodland Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. The monument was erected in 1905 by the Grand Army of the Republic Sumner Woman's Relief Corps No. 22. The Inscription reads: GAR - Erected in memory of the known and unknown colored soldiers and sailors who fought in defense of the Union from 1861 to 1865 by Sumner Relief Corp. No 22 through the special efforts of the national aides [line obliterated] Cora S. Dameron.
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Date
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1905~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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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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