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Title
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Quayle Bible Collection
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Description
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File contains primarily brochures pertaining to the Quayle Bible Collection at Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas. Also photos and information on Bishop William Alfred Quayle, or William Quayle (1860-1925), a Methodist minister native to Parkville, Missouri, and moving to Baldwin, Kansas, as a youth before becoming a student, teacher, and college president there, accumulating and donating his Bible collection to the university.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Western Baptist Seminary
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Description
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File contains catalogues for Western Baptist Seminary/Bible College at 2119-25 Tracy Avenue.
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Date
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1951/1962
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Drips Family Genealogy
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Description
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Information on the family of Major Andrew Drips (1790-1860, according to this source), with biographical sketches of him and his relatives from family Bible records.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Albert Gallatin Boone Genealogy
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Description
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File contains photocopies of records of Boone family history from writings in a Bible, with photos of Albert Boone.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Wilbert Reed Howell
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Description
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File contains a collection of papers about African American teacher Wilbert Reed Howell, or Wilbert Howell, including notices directed at Clay County slaveholders during the Civil War. Biographical information about Howell, born in Ohio in 1883 and coming to Kansas City in 1919 as a teacher and former principal of black schools, teaching history at Lincoln High School from 1919 to 1937, then leaving and returning to Kansas City in 1947 with the Western Baptist Bible College.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Description
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Information about Robert Anson Heinlein, or Robert Heinlein (1907-1988), a novelist often called "the Dean of Science Fiction," born in Butler, Missouri, and moving to Kansas City at a young age, graduating from Central High School at 3211 Indiana Avenue in 1924, and attending one year at Kansas City Junior College, before starting his writing career in 1939. Description of his life and career, writing over 40 novels, with some filmed as movies, including "Stranger in a Strange Land" (also a 1960s counterculture bible), "Starship Troopers," and "The Puppet Masters" (describing the distant future of Kansas City, with many specific places and streets).
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Prominent Kansas Citians
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Description
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File contains copies from Kansas City newspapers with pictures of "prominent Kansas Citians." Some are undated but most date from the 1920s and 1930s, although one item, "Growth Along All Lines is Marked," appears to be from the early 1900s.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
