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Title: 8th Annual Inaugural Dinner Dance
Description: View of the 8th annual Inaugural Dinner Dance held by the South Central Business Association at the Kansas City Athenaeum.
Date: 1928
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC160 Kansas City Athenaeum Collection Finding Aid
Description: Founded in 1894 through a collaboration of existing women’s clubs, the Kansas City Athenaeum is one of the oldest women’s organizations in the area. The Kansas City Athenaeum Collection contains minutes, yearbooks, scrapbooks, photographs, operational and financial records, clubhouse information and building plans, and ephemera documenting the history of the club.
Date: 1894/2012
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: KC Women's Clubs Pass into Obscurity
Description: The last official meeting of the Woman's City Club and the Presidents and Past Presidents General Assembly, both formed more than 90 years ago, will be held April 2009. A third club, the Kansas City Athenaeum, formed in 1894, hopes "to sell off many of its heirlooms at a public auction at the clubhouse at 900 E. Linwood Blvd." Article discusses the three clubs.
Date: 2009-04-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Civic Housekeepers And More
Description: 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.
Date: 2013-12
Object Type: Manuscript

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