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Title
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The '81 Club
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Description
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The '81 Club recently celebrated its 125th anniversary with a dinner at the Kansas City Country Club. This women's club was founded by Sarah Coates and others to "associate themselves together for the purpose of mental improvement and the pursuit of a systematized course of study." The program for the evening was given by local historian Dory DeAngelo. Includes a photograph of the group.
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Date
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2007-03-03
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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SC199 ’81 Club Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection includes meeting minutes, programs, scrapbooks and other materials relating to the ’81 Club, a Kansas City women’s club founded by Sarah Chandler Coates in 1881.
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Date
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1886/2019
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Sarah C. Coates
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Description
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Portrait of Sarah C. Coates.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Century-Old '81 Club Reveres Its Founder
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Description
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Biographical article about "Sarah Walter Chandler Coates, wife of Kersey Coates," and her founding of the '81 Club of Kansas City, a social club on Quality Hill, celebrating its centennial year, with photos.
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Date
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1981
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Century-Old '81 Club Reveres Its Founder
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Description
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Celebration of the club's centennial and founder, Sarah Walter Chandler Coates, wife of Kersey Coates.
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Date
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1981
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Civic Housekeepers And More
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Description
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A history of women's organizations and women civic leaders in Kansas City. Beginning the in the 1850s and continuing forward, women in Kansas City sought to form groups that addressed issues of education, charity, morality, reform, and equality. Organizations such as the Kansas City Athenaeum, the Women's City Club, and the Forward Kansas City Committee created an environment of female civic engagement and activism, playing a key role in overhauling the politically-corrupt city government in the elections of 1940.
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Date
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2013-12
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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In Memoriam: Sarah Walter Chandler Coates
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Description
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Extract of a letter from Susan B. Anthony, or Susan Anthony, the pioneer feminist and suffragette, about her visits with Sarah W. C. Coates, or Sarah Coates in Kansas City in 1870 and 1896, dealing with the right to vote for women.
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Date
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1898~
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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 Sarah Chandler Coates, or Sarah Coates (1829-1897), a teacher from Pennsylvania who moved to Kansas City with her husband, Kersey, in the 1850s. She experienced border warfare troubles while moving to a house at 10th and Pennsylvania Avenue on what became Quality Hill, and was involved in many clubs and "almost every charitable effort in the city."
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book