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Title
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Mary Atkins
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Description
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File containing material about Mary McAfee Atkins, or Mary Atkins, associated with the founding of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Included is a copy of her death certificate.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City Crossroads: Strangers Made Art Gallery Possible
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Description
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Brief article describing the early history of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Mary McAfee Atkins and William Rockhill Nelson left a combined amount of approximately $3 million for an art museum, which opened December 10, 1933.
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Date
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2002-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Art Alone Enduring
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Description
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Article about the influences of three women on Midwest art appreciation: Mary Frances Sheldon, Sarah Hannah Joslyn, and Mary McAfee Atkins, the last from Kansas City and instrumental in the founding of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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Date
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1974-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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
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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