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Title
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Sharing Hardship: The Missouri Ozarks during the Great Depression
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Description
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Article about the living conditions in the Missouri Ozarks during the Great Depression, mostly a subsistence agricultural economy already but stretched nevertheless because of drought, transportation costs for livestock, etc., with photos.
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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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Wilbur Niewald: A 40 Year Retrospective, 1951-1991
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and biographical article about Wilbur Niewald, "Senior Professor of Painting" at the Kansas City Art Institute, retiring after 43 years there. Growing up in Kansas City and becoming a World War II pilot before entering the art field, painting scenes such as Penn Valley Park, etc.
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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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Margaret Truman: President's "Son"
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Margaret Truman, daughter and only child (treated as a "son" in some aspects) of President Harry Truman, born in Independence, Missouri in 1924 and becoming a professional singer and biographical writer about her father, etc.
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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 Carolyn Doughty, "executive secretary of the Woman's City Club for nearly 50 years." Description of her life and career as a native of Clinton, Missouri, joining the club in 1918 at 408 East 11th Street ( later relocating to 1111 Grand Avenue), and helping initiate "the outpatient clinic at General Hospital," etc. before dying in 1975.
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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
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Title
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Nell Donnelly Reed
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Description
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Biography of Nell Donnelly Reed (1889-1991), or Nell Reed, designer of women's clothing in the early and mid-1900s with the Donnelly Garment Company and the Nelly Don clothing label, "a stylish, feminine frock which was the foundation of a multi-million dollar business." Native of Parson, Kansas coming to Kansas City in 1906 as Mrs. Paul Donnelly and starting her own company before marrying senator James A. Reed in 1931, becoming the first woman on the board of the Midwest Research Institute, and donating 840 acres of land in Jackson County for the James A. Reed Wildlife Area, etc.
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Date
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1992
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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 Ada Crogman Franklin, or Ada Franklin (~1886-1983), publisher and writer for the Kansas City Call newspaper for the local African American community, and the wife of the paper's founder, Chester Franklin. Description of her life and career, born in Atlanta and becoming a writer, moving to Kansas City in 1925, and "devot[ing] considerable time to community projects" as a director or supporter of the Niles Home for Children, the Wheatley-Provident Hospital Women's Auxiliary, and the Urban League, etc.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book
