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Title: Seeking Fortune in the Promised Land: Settling the Boon's Lick Country, 1808-1825
Description: Article about the history of the Boon's Lick country, a region of central Missouri along the Missouri River named after its salt springs used by Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone in 1805. Description of the changing character, real estate demand, and identified location of the "country" from 1808 to 1825, with illustrations, photos, and maps.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Plaza Medical Building
Description: Partial frontal view of Plaza Medical Building looking east; located on south side of Nichols Road between Broadway and Central.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Plaza Medical Building
Description: Partial frontal view of Plaza Medical Building looking west; located on south side of Nichols Road between Broadway and Central.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: Photo and bio of Lena Haag (1864-1951), an artist and donator of the liberal arts building of the University of Missouri-Kansas City named for her in 1937. Description of her life and career, coming to Kansas City as a child with residence at 15th and Walnut Streets and later 11th and Central Streets.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: Photo and bio of Mary Harmon Weeks, or Mary Weeks (1851-1940), an "author as well as an educator" in child welfare, and wife of electrical engineer Edwin Ruthven Weeks. Native of Ohio raised in Kansas City and becoming one of the first two teachers at Central High School in 1867 with students such as Burris Jenkins, Fred Wolferman, and Frank Wornall. Organizer of "the first PTA [parent-teacher association] in Missouri," namesake of the "Mary Harmon Weeks School at 4201 Indiana" Avenue, and resident of 3408 Harrison Street.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: Photo and bio of Sophia Rosenberger (1866-1945), a school teacher of literaturewith students such as John Gage, Robert Mehornay, Mrton Jones, Clyde Brion Davis, or Clyde Davis ("author of 'The Great American Novel'"), Martha Scott (movie actress), and William Powell (movie actor). Native of Iowa raised in Kansas City at 920 Central Street before beginning "her teaching career at Franklin Elementary School at [14th Street] and Washington streets just two blocks from her home at 1229 Washington Street" and transferring to Westport High School around 1900.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: Photos and bio of Sally Rand (1904-1979), a famous dancer born in Hickory County, Missouri as Helen Beck. Growing up in Kansas City as a Central High School graduate moving to Hollywood to start her movie acting career in the 1920s (with Mack Sennett and Cecil B. DeMille) and then fan dancing career in the 1930s, later visiting and performing in Kansas City several times and dying in California.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Saint Teresa's Academy High School Yearbook - Teresian
Description: Yearbook for the 1992 class of St. Teresa's Academy High School.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Yearbook

Title: Francis M. Cockrell's Application for Executive Clemency
Description: Biographical article about Francis Cockrell, a Confederate general, and his pardon after the Civil War, with photo, biographical sketch, and copies of his letters.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Santa Fe Trail Series
Description: Series of articles and letters with comments about experiences on the Santa Fe Trail from the early 1800s, with illustrations.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Pleasant Reunion
Description: Biographical article about William Quantrill including a reprint from the "Sni-a-Bar Voice" newspaper of Blue Springs, Missouri, from August 28, 1908. Description of a "reunion of Quantrell's [sic] men" there listing several ex-Bushwhackers or guerrillas under Quantrill and a speech given by William Gregg about the local Confederate cause.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Chapel Hill College--Best in the West
Description: History of the log school house of Chapel Hill College, "on the boundary line between Jackson, Lafayette and Johnson Counties." Description of the college (started about 1841) and its founder and head teacher, A. W. Ridings.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: I Am Now Rich. ..Jacob Hall, 1855
Description: Portrait and biographical article about Jacob Hall (~1820-1864), a wealthy Independence lawyer and Santa Fe Trail postal carrier starting just after the Mexican War in 1846, with many real estate properties.
Date: 1992
Object Type: Magazine Article

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