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Title: Contributors to Missouri Culture: Clara Cleghorn Hoffman
Description: Biography of Clara Cleghorn Hoffman, a "longtime president of the Missouri Woman's Christian Temperance Union" against alcohol and activist for women's voting and other rights during the late 19th century and very early 20th century.
Date: 2000-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Raising Kansas City's Society: From Muddy Streets to Manicured Fairways--A Sample of Our Social History
Description: Article about the historical development of social classes in Kansas City and the families and organizations associated with the upper class. Discussion of the social positions and organizations of women and minority ethnic groups in relation to the upper classes.
Date: 1998-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo.
Description: Biographical sketch of Dr. Henrietta Tainter, "a physician of the eclectic school in Kansas City." Born in Indiana in 1845 and coming here after the death of her husband in Logan, Kansas.
Date: 1896
Object Type: Book

Title: Official Manual: State of Missouri, 1989-1990
Description: File containing a photo and biographical sketch of Mary Groves Bland, or Mary Bland, a black Missouri state representative and native Kansas Citian residing at 6135 Indiana Avenue in Kansas City.
Date: 1990
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: Photo and bio of Mary Tiera Farrow, or Mary Farrow (1880-1971), "the dean of women lawyers in Kansas City" and author of the book "Lawyer in Petticoats." Description of her life and career as a native of Indiana coming to Kansas City about 1898 as an office worker before becoming a lawyer with offices in the New York Life Building and city treasurer of Kansas City, Kansas, in 1907. First president of the Women's Bar Association of Kansas City in 1917 and co-founder of "a women's school of law in 1925" in Kansas City with Louise Byers.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Carolyn Farwell Fuller (1875-1944), Member of the Kansas City Board of Education
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: City Window: A Different Kind of Women's Club in Crown Center
Description: Club providing a variety of educational, cultural and social services for local women, sharing space with Kiwanis club at Crown Center.
Date: 1982-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Ladies of Lawrence are Arming!: The Gendered Nature of Sectional Violence in Early Kansas
Description: Chapter of the book about border warfare involving women in 1850s Kansas Territory, discussing the active part of women in antislavery violence and other activity, promoting the entrance of Kansas into the Union as a free state.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Add a Pinch and a Lump: Missouri Women of the 1820s
Description: Overview of the lifestyles of Missouri women in the 1820s, both for common and prominent women, with illustrations. Elaboration on women's roles at the time in food preparation, housekeeping, and manner of dress, as well as the cultural, religious, and social differences between French and English women pioneers.
Date: 1971-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Biography of Patricia McIlrath (1917-1999), Founder of the Missouri Repertory Theater
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: Special Civil War Issue
Description: Among the key articles in this special issue about the Civil War are the following: "New Madrid Bend, 1862: The Most Important Civil War Battle in Missouri;" "Building Union From Neutrality: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War;" "'They Go in Droves Every Night': Enslaved Missourians' Journey to Freedom;" "Florence M. Cornyn: St. Louis Physician and Union Cavalry Colonel;" "Banished!: How Lily Frost, Lucy Nicholson, and Harriet Snodgrass Paid the Price of Disloyalty;" and "A Vicotry in Boone County: The Unlikely Emancipation of Sanford Shirkey."
Date: 2011
Object Type: Magazine

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