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Our Indian Ambassadors to Europe
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Description
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Article about diplomatic visits, for political purposes, of American Indians to Western European nations, especially France and England in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
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Date
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1928-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Industry Outlook: Information Technology
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Description
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This issue contains V.2#8 of Ingram's "Industry Outlook" which deals with information technology in this area. It includes articles plus an account of a July, 2002, meeting with local IT professionals. Lists include top venture capital companies, top area ISP'S, and top area web site develoopment companies
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2002-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Technology Guards Cargo
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Description
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Discussion of a system that tracks truck cargo using a specific seal developed by Kansas City-based BV Solutions Group Inc. ''The system is a component of a proposed Mexican customs clearing facility scheduled to open in May in Kansas City's West Bottoms industrial district.'' With implementation by KC SmartPort, a non-profit economic development group, this would establish Mexico's first clearinghouse on U.S. soil. ''Kansas City is the only U.S. city the Mexican government had agreed to negotiate with so far.''
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Date
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2005-12-16
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 2, 1940-1950, Page p258
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Description
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A portion of northeast Kansas City from Thompson Avenue south to Independence Avenue and from Benton Boulevard east to Bales Avenue, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of pages refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1940/1950
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 1, 1909-1938, Page p009
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from W. 5th Street south to W. 7th Street and from Pennsylvania Avenue east to Broadway, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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1909/1938
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Object Type
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Map
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 2, 1896-1907, Page p185
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Description
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Northeastern part of early Kansas City from the south edge of North Terrace Park south to Grandy Avenue and from Witte Place east to Bellefontaine Avenue, showing buildings, streets, additions, bluff line, and the iron street railway viaduct. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1896/1907
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1950, Page p360
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from E. 24th Street south to E. 25th Street and from Prospect Avenue east to Benton Boulevard, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1909/1950
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Object Type
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Map
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Kansas City Agriculture
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Description
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Photos and information on the agricultural and grain industries of the Kansas City and surrounding areas.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Selling the 'Noble Savage' Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845
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Description
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This study is partly about the American artist George Catlin and his white contemporaries who promoted a mythical image of Native Americans for profit. Their story is relatively well known to historians and other scholars. The added dimension in this narrative is a group of Indians--the Iowas--the 'commodity' that Catlin and others peddled to the public. Article is illustrated with many of Catlin's paintings.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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United States Department of Agriculture
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Description
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File containing reprints of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by the Kansas City Star about the history of inefficiency of the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture).
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Date
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1990~/1999~
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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The New Commissioner of Agriculture
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Description
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Portrait and biographical article about Norman Colman, "a citizen of Missouri" and the newly appointed Commissioner of Agriculture in the cabinet of the President of the United States, discussing the "scope of the department" and its various bureaus, and his role in it.
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Date
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1885-04-18
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1909-1957, Page p360
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Description
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A portion of Kansas City from E. 24th Street south to E. 25th Street and from Prospect Avenue east to Benton Boulevard, showing buildings, streets, and additions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1909/1957
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Object Type
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Map
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Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 2, 1940-1957, Page p258
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Description
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A portion of northeast Kansas City from Thompson Avenue south to Independence Avenue and from Benton Boulevard east to Bales Avenue, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of pages refer to page with adjoining area.
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Date
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1940/1957
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Turbo-Speed Technology Pioneers of the Prairie
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Description
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Review of some of Kansas City's most successful new information technology companies, mostly internet-related, and their executives, including PVI (Peripheral Vision InfoSystems, Incorporated) and Scot Kane, eScout and Alexander Kemper, Euronet and Mike Brown, Digital Archeology and David Frankland, Garmin and Gary Burrell and Min Kao, Net Sales and Bob Fraser, Tidestone and Tom DeBacco, and GeoAccess and Stuart Bauman and Tom Lauerman, with photos and profiles.
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Date
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2000-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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