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Kansas City Area--Easy Christianity [etc.]
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Description
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Report about various area religious organizations, including a speech by a "Quaker religious leader," a "pilot project in international grass roots diplomacy" by the "U. S. Information Agency," lectures by a biblical scholar, "and so forth."
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Date
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1960-05-18
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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United States Courthouse and Post Office
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Description
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Full frontal and side view of building at 811 Grand Avenue, looking northeast. Shows Victoria Hotel to the east.
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Date
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1940~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Clayton Quadrangle
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Description
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Topographical map depicting St. Louis County and the city of St. Louis, Missouri, as well as surrounding suburban towns. Map includes Forest Park and its facilities, hospitals, schools, churches, stadiums, and other points of interest.
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Date
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1941
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Quindaro Quadrangle
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Description
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Topographical map of northeast Wyandotte County, Kansas. Features Kansas City, Kansas and the Missouri River, including roads, creeks, and city facilities. Several schools are labeled, including Quindaro School, Southwest Junior High School, Hawthorne School, and Western University.
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Date
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1943
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Ebenezer Quadrangle
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Description
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Topographical map of Greene County in south-central Missouri, including part of the city of Springfield as well as the town of Ebenezer and McDaniel Lake. Also depicted are roads of varying grades, numerous schools, Springfield city facilities, as well as churches and cemeteries.
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Date
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1948
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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United States
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Description
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Map of the United States showing Arkansas Territory, Missouri Territory (stretching to the west coast), and a large area comprising the southwest, including present-day northern Mexico. Names of many Indian tribes, and some Indian villages, appear on this map, as well as towns and rivers. The state of Missouri is shown as stretching well into present-day Iowa.
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Date
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1822
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with Numerous Sketches, Anecdotes, Adventures, etc., Relating to Early Days in Missouri
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Description
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Autobiography of Indian leader Black Hawk, "born at the Sac Village, on Rock River, in the year 1767," dictated "to Antoine Leclair, United States Interpreter for the Sac and Fox Indians, in August, 1833, and published by him in October of the same year." Stories of the migration, often forced by violence, of the Sac and Fox Indian tribes from Quebec across the Great Lakes region to the Missouri and Mississippi Valleys.
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Date
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1876
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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United States Bicentennial
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Description
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Information about the celebration of the United States Bicentennial, including a program for an ethnic ball in Kansas City.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Johnson's United States
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Description
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Map of the United States, Lower California, northern Mexico, Cuba, and the Bahama Islands. State and territorial boundaries, railroad lines, rivers, and towns are indicated for the U.S., as well as forts, explorers' routes, pioneer trails, and Indian tribe locations for western U.S. Numeral 20 found in upper left corner; numeral 21 found in upper right corner.
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Date
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1862
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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The United States Illustrated
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Description
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Photo of a steel engraving by J. M. Peck of Kansas City in the mid-1800s.
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Date
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1852
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Missouri: Doesn't Want to Be Shown--These United States--XL
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Description
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Article providing a broad description of the "self-contained" culture of the state of Missouri, including general topics of geography (mixture of North, South, East, and West), population and ethnic groups (especially Germans), religion, politics, education and reading choices (magazines and newspapers over books, mentioning several state periodicals), agriculture, muddy roads, and employment for women, etc.
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Date
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1923-10-17
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The First in United States
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Description
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Article about the pioneering of the postal delivery service of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad.
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Date
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1909-02-07
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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United States Department of Agriculture
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Description
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File containing reprints of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles by the Kansas City Star about the history of inefficiency of the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture).
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Date
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1990~/1999~
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Federal Post Office
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Description
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Frontal and west side view of post office at 315 Pershing Road. Cars are parked in front of the building.
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Date
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1935~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Federal Post Office
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Description
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Kansas City's main post office at 315 W. Pershing Road.
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Date
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1950~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
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Description
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Biographical sketch of William Morrison, a banker and coal investor and former Missouri state representative and mayor of Lexington, Missouri. Born in Pittsburgh in 1817 and moving to Lexington about 1840 as a merchant before establishing "a branch store in Kansas City for the sale of his goods, and for ten years largely supplied the Mexican traders with stoves, camp equipage, etc."
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Date
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1878
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Object Type
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Book
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