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Title
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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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Monarch Transfer Company Building
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Description
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View looking northwest of the Monarch Transfer Company Building that once stood at 1820 E. 31st Street. A Monarch company truck is parked on Michigan Avenue.
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Date
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1920~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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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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Date
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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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Date
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1909/1938
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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. 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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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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Title
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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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Israel Motor Transfer Trucks Loaded with Haydite Concrete
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Description
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View of trucks loaded with blocks of Haydite Concrete for Memorial Building in Independence, Missouri, taken from Grand Avenue just south of its intersection with 19th Street. A sign for C&D Auto Salvage can be seen. Workers are posed on Grand Avenue standing outside their trucks. The buildings at 1916-1924 Grand Avenue can be seen on the left hand side of the image. Buildings that once stood on Grand Avenue south of 19th Street are in view on the right. The Thomas Corrigan Building at the corner of 19th and Walnut streets can be seen in the background.
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Date
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1925~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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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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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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