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SC33-1 McGee Family Bible Finding Aid
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Description
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Bible of Mrs. James H. McGee with newspaper obituary of Eleanor McGee pasted in front cover. Only family information is a note on verso of New Testament page. Loose, miscellaneous items found in pages of Bible.
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Date
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1816
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Finding Aid
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SC33-2 Lykins Family Bible Finding Aid
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Family Bible of David Lykins and Jemima Willis, parents of Dr. Johnston Lykins. It has a record of births and deaths written on blank leaves between Old and New Testaments. The title page is missing. Photocopies of pages from this bible are in the vertical file for "Lykins, Johnston."
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1800~/1890~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Drips Family Genealogy
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Information on the family of Major Andrew Drips (1790-1860, according to this source), with biographical sketches of him and his relatives from family Bible records.
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Vertical File
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Albert Gallatin Boone Genealogy
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File contains photocopies of records of Boone family history from writings in a Bible, with photos of Albert Boone.
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Vertical File
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Bookin' West: Tall Tales and "Books of Every Sort and Size From Fanny Hill to The Bible on The Journey West
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This bibliographic essay examines the books widely read in the nineteenth century that had an influence on pioneers. It includes extracts from various journals and letters of pioneers that mention the books they took on their overland journeys. The books most included on the journey were the family Bible, anything written by Shakespeare, Webster's dictionary, guidebooks, and children's readers, etc. "During their journey westward, emigrants and adventurers brought, bought, borrowed, traded, cast off, or picked up books whenever it suited. Perhaps their greatest legacy was to leave behind their own writings--diaries, journals, letters, and reminiscences--which continue to fuel twenty-first-century imaginations with epic stories of heroes, romance, and adventure."
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Date
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2007
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Magazine Article
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John Johnson Material
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This folder of material includes newspaper clippings which include Johnson's obituary, typescripts of 11 letters dated 1853-1875, family record pages from a family Bible, photocopies of photographs of John and Diana Johnson as well as Emily and Holly Jarboe, and a photocopied will of Peter Hoagland. The letters were written from Kansas and Kansas City, Mo., by John L. Johnson or family members. Mention is made of the national political situation of the time, the border warfare difficulties experienced in Kansas and Missouri and early situations in Kansas City.
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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SC28 Rudolph Umland Collection Finding Aid
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This collection consists of notes, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers accumulated by author Rudolph Umland as he wrote articles about Kansas City history for local periodicals. Umland was a Nebraska author who, after leading the Nebraska Federal Writers’ Project and serving in World War II wrote for local, regional, and national publications while working in the Social Security Administration.
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1970~/1979~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Old Pino--How Old Was He?
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Description
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Biographical article about Jacques Fournais, a fur trapper born supposedly in the 1750s in Quebec, Canada, and working with Major Andrew Drips by 1832 in Kansas City, staying with Drips's daughter, Catherine Mulkey, at the time of his death, at an age "variously estimated at 110 to 134 years."
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Date
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1971-07-06
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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SC193 Richards and Conover Hardware Company Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Richards and Conover Hardware Company was started in 1857 by John Francisco Richards and continued to operate as a family-owned business until it closed in 1999. This collection, donated by a former president of the company and descendant of John F. Richards, consists of the business records created and maintained by the company’s owners and employees.
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1854/1999
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Finding Aid
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SC207 Italian Mission Collection
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Description
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In 1908, the Central Presbyterian Church of Kansas City established a settlement house to assist Italian immigrants in the community. Commonly known as the Italian Mission, the initiative grew to offer a kindergarten, free health clinic, recreation center, dual-language publications, and a church to the Italian community and other residents living in Kansas City’s Northeast neighborhood. This collection includes the operational and financial records of the mission and related projects, as well as personal papers of its long-time leader, Dr. John B. Bisceglia, and his family.
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1816/2009
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC164 KCPL Reference Hard to Find Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information concerning topics of local and regional interest. The collection primarily consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, brochures, other forms of printed material, and typed notecards.
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Date
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1980/2005
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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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
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SC63 Vertical Files Special Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Vertical Files Special Collection is an artificial collection that was compiled in the mid-1990s when items in the regular vertical files were withdrawn for preservation purposes to be reprocessed as a special collection. This collection consists of pamphlets, reports, articles, correspondence, and ephemera for businesses, organizations, homes, buildings, and people in the Kansas City area.
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1816/1990
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Finding Aid
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