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Title
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Kansas City: Rise of a Regional Metropolis
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Description
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Book includes a short history of the city's main art museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. It was named after major benefactor William Rockhill Nelson and Mary McAfee Atkins who also contributed money, both dying in the early 1900s. Includes photographs of both Nelson and Atkins as well as a model of the expansion of the museum on the east side.
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Date
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2002
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Object Type
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Book
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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 Mary McAfee Atkins, or Mary Atkins (1835-1911), one of the major benefactors and namesake of the the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, born in Kentucky and coming to Kansas City around 1878 as a manager of her husband's real estate fortune.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book
