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Title
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Matilda Shelden
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Description
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Photo and description of Matilda Dallmeyer Shelden, or Matilda Shelden, wife of Dr. Frank Shelden ("a noted tennis star") and member of the upper house of the City Council in 1924, "member of the Woman's City Club, past president of the Kansas City Rose Society in 1947, a musette of the Kansas City Museum, and active in the Second Presbyterian Church."
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Date
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1968
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Object Type
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Book Section
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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 Mathilde Dallmeyer Shelden, or Mathilde Shelden (1885-1980), "a pioneer in the Missouri suffrage movement." Native of Jefferson City, Missouri coming to Kansas City in 1920 with residence at 1272 West 59th Street and becoming a City Council member.
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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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Diamond Jubilee of Nineteenth Amendment
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Description
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Article about the 75th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, with information about the suffragette movement in Kansas City, including Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Chandler Coates, and Mathilde Dallmeyer Shelden.
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Date
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1995
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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SC160 Kansas City Athenaeum Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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Founded in 1894 through a collaboration of existing women’s clubs, the Kansas City Athenaeum is one of the oldest women’s organizations in the area. The Kansas City Athenaeum Collection contains minutes, yearbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, operational and financial records, clubhouse information and building plans, and ephemera documenting the history of the club.
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Date
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1894/2012
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
