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Title: Missouri Women in History: Mary Alicia Owen
Description: Biography of Mary Alicia Owens, folklorist and ethnologist in the late 1800s and early 1900s from Saint Joseph.
Date: 1970-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Don Benito Vasquez in Early Saint Louis
Description: Biographical article about Don Benito Vasquez (1738-1810), an early Spanish settler of Saint Louis, Missouri. Native of Spain emigrating to Saint Louis in 1869 as a soldier under Lieutenant Pedro Piernas following the Louisiana Territory's ceding to Spain from France. Description of his fur trading career from 1772 to about 1800, traveling down the Mississippi River and up the Missouri River to the later site of Kansas City and beyond, and dealing with Manuel Lisa, Governor Carondelet, and Jean Baptiste Trudeau.
Date: 1970-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Missouri Negro Press 1875-1920
Description: Article about 55 different Missouri newspapers published by black people from 1875 to 1920, "mostly affiliated with a religious denomination, lodge, or college."
Date: 1970-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City's Neglected Zoo
Description: Article about the deplorable condition of the city zoo due to a construction strike and lack of funds.
Date: 1970-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Eugene Genovese, the Missouri Elite, and Civil War Historiography
Description: Biographical article about Eugene Genovese, author of the book "The Political Economy of Slavery." Description of the distinct social and economic system imposed by the antebellum "Missouri Elite" planters and slaveholders upon the state, etc.
Date: 1970-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: How to Save an Orchestra
Description: Article describing the possible "death throes" of the Philharmonic following criticism from "the city's Performing Arts Foundation."
Date: 1970-07
Object Type: Magazine Article