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Title
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Marking Missouri History
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Biography of Carry M. Nation, raised in Cass County, Missouri, and becoming "the icon of the temperance movement at the turn of the twentieth century," describing the familial motivations in her flamboyant campaigns against alcohol abuse in Kansas.
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Date
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1998
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Book
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Marking Missouri History
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Biography of George Washington Carver, a black chemist from Newton County, Missouri, and inventor of multiple agricultural and industrial uses for the peanut, doing most of his research at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
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Marking Missouri History
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Description
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Biography of Sally Rand, the stage name of Helen Beck, a Hickory County, Missouri, native famous for her sometimes indecent fan dancing starting in the 1920s. She appeared in movies and the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, with photos.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
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Marking Missouri History
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Biography of Walt Disney, born in Chicago but raised as a child in Marceline, Missouri, and as a teenager in Kansas City, Missouri, before gaining world fame as an artist and animator in California. Shows a photo of the Walt Disney Municipal Park in Marceline.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
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Alexander Doniphan
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Description
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Biography of Alexander W. Doniphan, a Missouri military leader originally from Kentucky, gaining prominence during the 1846 Mexican War and 1838 Mormon War, memorialized in a statue in Ray County, Missouri, his home after the Civil War and place of retirement.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
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Marking Missouri History
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Description
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Biography and photo of Jane Froman, a singer from Henry County, Missouri who performed in the 1920s and 1930s with bands such as "Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, and Tommy Dorsey." She became crippled in a USO airplane crash during World War II and still continued her entertaining career with movies.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
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Marking Missouri History
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Description
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Biography of William R. Nelson, one of the most prominent figures in the history of Kansas City, the founder of the Kansas City Star and promoter of better public property conditions of the city, including the impetus for the park and boulevard system and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
