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Title
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Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Description
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Photo and bio of Anna Jones, a customs broker in the Scarritt Building at 818 Grand Avenue and "believed to be the only female customs broker in the country." Description of her life and career, "serv[ing] the city and the Midwest for over 18 yeasr as the intermediary between the United States government and importers of goods from foreign countries."
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Skelly Building
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Description
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Partial frontal view of Skelly Building, located on southeast corner of 47th Street and Jefferson.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The Story of Prairie Village, Johnson County, Kansas
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Description
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A seven page typescript prepared by the Public Relations Department of the J. C. Nichols Company. Besides the history, it gives a chronological listing of the Nichols Company developments in Prairie Village plus government and cultural facts about the area.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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Country Club Plaza
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Description
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Partial frontal and side view of building located on southeast corner of Nichols Road and Pennsylvania. Shows The Limited as occupant.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Holy Rosary Catholic Church
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Description
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Full frontal and side view of Holy Rosary Catholic Church, located on the southeast corner of 5th and Campbell.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Country Club Plaza
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Description
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Partial frontal and side view of building located at southeast corner of Nichols Road and Broadway. Shows Woolf Brothers as occupant.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Cape Girardeau Celebrates 200 Years
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Description
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History of the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, from its start "dating to the early 1700s," as an Indian trading site on the Mississippi River through "French ensign, Jean Baptiste Girardot." Description and illustrations of historic architecture in the city, home to Southeast Missouri State University.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Description
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Photo and bio of Madalyne Pinkston Brock, or Madalyne Brock (1894-1990), "the executive director of the Naturalization Council" of Kansas City starting in 1938. Description of her life and career as a native of Oregon, Missouri, raised in Kansas City, and educating foreigners in English and other assimilation skills.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Livable Cities Almanac
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Description
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Listings of the Greater Kansas City area in national city rankings for overall health (26th) and city drinking-water quality (66th, 7th worst out of 72), with a section describing the "Kansas City, KS and MO" area specifically on various health-related aspects, such as violent crime, air and water quality, hazardous waste, weather, hospitals, etc.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book
