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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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Title
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Children at the Swinney Branch Library
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Description
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Children seated at tables inside the Swinney Branch Library, located inside the E. F. Swinney Public School on W. 47th Street, between Holly and West Prospect Place (Jarboe).
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Date
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1915
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Jean A. Merrill: Children's Libraries
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Description
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Article about the Kansas City Public Library Children's Department's involvement with school book fairs for children in the Kansas City area, starting with the "Carnival of Books" in 1955, etc.
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Date
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1965-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Robert Esterley on Horseback
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Description
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Exterior portrait of Robert Esterley, son of a blacksmith, on horseback in front of the Allen Library (later the Westport Branch of the Kansas City Public Library).
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view taken at an unidentified Kansas City Public Library location during Children's Book Week in 1923. In addition to the five unidentified children, various children's posters and books are in view. Probably was taken in one of the library's branch locations.
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Date
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1923
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Unidentified children at table in Children's Room, Main building at 9th and Locust.
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Date
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1900
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes a librarian, an African American man as well as two African American children, all unidentified. Exact location in library not given, may be the children's or youth area.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view of children looking at a picture book in an unidentified room located in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Children are not identified.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes unidentified children, probably taken in the children's area during story time.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes unidentified children and storryteller, probably taken in the children's area during story time.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes African American children probably taken in the children's area during story time.
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Date
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1955~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Interior view taken at the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 48th and Main in the Country Club Plaza. In view is a plaque which appears to be attached to the wall, exact location not given. It reads: "In Appreciation Elizabeth Johnson Storyteller to the Children of Kansas City." Johnson was a former children's librarian at the Plaza branch.
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Date
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2001-12
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Kansas City Public Library
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Description
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Unidentified men, women, and children examining murals in Missouri Valley Room, located in northwest corner of 3rd floor, Main branch at 12th and Oak.
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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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