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Title: Mutual Musicians Foundation - Children from St. Therese
Description: View of children from St. Therese Catholic Church holding a banner at a ceremony for the Mutual Musicians Foundation at 1823 Highland Avenue. Unidentified figures standing in the background can be seen.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mutual Musicians Foundation - Children from St. Therese
Description: View of children from St. Therese Catholic Church holding a banner at a ceremony for the Mutual Musicians Foundation at 1823 Highland Avenue. Unidentified figures standing in the background can be seen.
Date: 1982~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Children's Room: Two Missourians Dear to Children
Description: Article about the Kansas City Public Library's holdings in the children's room of writings of poet Eugene Field and writer Mark Twain, describing both their lives and writings.
Date: 1901-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me
Description: Article tells about "How the Good Sisters at St. Anthony's Home Endeavour to Obey the Divine Precept-Grave and Humorous Incidents in the Careers of a Big City's Infantile Glotsam and Jetson." The stories of several abandoned children are told in melodramatic fashion.
Date: 2009
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Wounded Knee, Women, Children and Soldiers
Description: A group Indian women and children and soldiers posing in front of an unidentified building.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 'Mother' of 100 Takes Children into Heart
Description: Biographical article with photo about Mrs. Willa Carter, 78-year-old matriarch of a large adopted family of over 100 foster children in Kansas City. The story is told of her long process of adopting starting around 1940 with her late husband David Carter at their residence at 2430 Brooklyn Avenue.
Date: 1975-07-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Early Platte County Schools Served Black Children
Description: Article contains brief histories of three Platte County schools--Benjamin Banneker School (Parkville, MO); Dunbar School (Platte City, MO); Mary Bethune School (Weston, MO)--that were built in the 19th century for the education of African American children.
Date: 2014-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Child in Coffin
Description: View of child in small decorated coffin and identified as Mrs. John Hardacre's child.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Girl in Lace Dress
Description: Photo of the head and torso of agirl identified as Lorren. Her face is not visible due to exposure, but the lace on her white dress is highly detailed.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Young Boy in Cockpit
Description: Youth dressed in a pilot's uniform and seated in a airplane cockpit. The plane has "No. 51" on the side.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Adoption in Kansas City
Description: Two dramatic factors: increase in abortions and single mothers.
Date: 1982-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Girl
Description: Blurry image of girl identified as Anna standing in a room in Iola, Kansas.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Girl
Description: Girl identified as Anna standing in front of porch in Iola, Kansas.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Girls
Description: Two girls identified as Anna and Lorren, standing in front of a brick wall somewhere in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Girl
Description: An unidentified young girl standing in front of house wearing a white dress, black boots, and a big bow in her hair.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Infants
Description: Interior group portrait of small group of infants in various cribs, swings, rockers.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Girls
Description: Two girls identified as Anna and Lorren, standing near a brick building somewhere in Kansas City, Missouri, viewed from behind.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Girls and Boys
Description: Seven unidentified children posing in front of bushes. All are wearing hats, some of which are made of paint cans and other such non-hat materials.
Date: 1915~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Grove, Wading Pool With Women and Children
Description: A woman with two children on the edge of the wading pool at the Grove in Kansas City, Missouri. One child has his or her feet in the water.
Date: 1915-07-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Penn School: Westport's Historic School for Black Children
Description: Article tells the story of Penn School on Pennsylvania Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets. Penn School is less well-known than other African American schools because it was small and served a neighborhood (Westport) not generally associated with the African American community. The school closed in 1955 and was demolished in 1969 following a fire. A plaque commemorates the site.
Date: 2006-01
Object Type: Newsletter Article

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