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Title
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Children Walking in Brush Creek
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Description
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Photograph of children walking on the concrete stream bed of Brush Creek, circa 1987.
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Date
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1987~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Children in Arbor Villa Pool
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Description
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An autochrome photograph of children at the Arbor Villa Pool at Main Street and 66th Street Terrace. This vantage point faces southeast from the Arbor Villa Pergola with houses on Edgevale Road in the background.
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Date
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1934-06-25
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Children in Arbor Villa Pool
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Description
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An autochrome photograph of children at the Arbor Villa Pool at Main Street and 66th Street Terrace.
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Date
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1934-06-25
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Children At Church
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Description
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Exterior view of a group of unidentified children with adults standing on the church steps. A Vacation Church School sign is in view and group may be associated with that event.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Children At Church
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Description
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Exterior view of unidentified children with adults standing on church steps. A Vacation Church School sign is partially in view and group may be associated with that event.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Children At Church
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Description
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Exterior view of unidentified children with adults standing on church steps. A Vacation Church School sign is partially in view and group may be associated with that event. Identification on back: 1st row left - Esther Anderson. Back row left - Mrs. Bea Powers. Next to back row - Rommie Lee, Gladys Gaylord.
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Date
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1950~/1959~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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First White Children Born in Kansas
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Description
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Chronology of the first white children born in Kansas, starting in 1828 and including the first white child born at the Methodist Shawnee Indian mission in 1830, "Susanna Adams Dillon," or Susannah Yoacham Dillon, or Susan Dillon, on January 12, and "still living in Kansas City, Mo.," in 1907.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Remember the Children: Daniel's Story
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Description
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Photo and description of a "major exhibit on the Holocaust" at Science City in Union Station called "Remember the Children, Daniel's Story" about events occurring to Jewish children in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
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Date
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2000-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Men and Children with Horses
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Description
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Men in costume on horseback; man and woman leading riderless horse.
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Date
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1895
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Sanders Singing With Children
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Description
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Interior view of Joe Sanders at the piano with child on his lamp and lady seated beside him. Also has one other child and two adults in view. Microphone close by which says "Acousticon."
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Louis' Children: American Jazz Singers
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the black Kansas City jazz musicians Little Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner and Pha Terrell," all singers. Description of James Andrew Rushing (1905-1972), as a native of Oklahoma City coming to Kansas City in the 1920s "to sing with Walter Page's Blue Devils" with Count Basie before joining Bennie Moten's band and leaving for New York City. Description of Joe Turner (1911-1985) as a native of Kansas City starting out in the early 1930s "at the Backbiter's nightclub on Independence Avenue and Troost" before recording the original version of "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and leaving for Los Angeles in the 1960s. Description of Elmer Terrell (1910-1945) as a native of Kansas City performing at the 18th Street Club in the early 1930s and then as vocalist for Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy band from 1933 until moving to Los Angeles in the early 1940s.
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Date
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1984
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Progress of Adoption of Children in Missouri
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Description
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Report on the history and growth of the "Willows Maternity Hospital and adoption center since its inception" in 1905 at 2929 Main Street, covering the change in perception and laws toward unmarried mothers and adoption.
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Date
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1945~
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Object Type
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Report
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Title
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How Children Learn about Trade Books in Kansas City
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Description
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Map, photos, and article about the "[l]ocation of the principal bookshops and branch libraries in Kansas City," with special reference to books and their promotion for children and juveniles. Description or mention of several branch libraries and bookstores or department stores with book sections, including the Frank Glenn Book Store, the Cramer Book Store, the Baptist Book Store, the Bennett Schneider Book Store, the Fred Harvey Book Shop, the Emery, Bird, Thayer & Company, Kline's Store, the Jones Store, the George B. Peck Dry Goods Company, and the Catholic Book Store, etc.
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Date
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1939-08-26
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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