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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
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Title
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James Burris Atkins
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Description
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Genealogical information about James B. Atkins, early Kansas City settler who wisely invested in Kansas City real estate. His second wife, Mary McAfee Atkins, designated in her will that moneys generated from that fortune be used to establish a new Kansas City art museum, which became part of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Date
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2000-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
