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Title
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Christmas Greeting to Kansas City Children
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Description
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File containing an article with words or lyrics (by librarian Carrie Westlake Whitney) and music (by orchestra conductor Carl Busch) for the 1909 song "Christmas Greeting to Kansas City Children."
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Date
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1909-12-19
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Carrie Westlake Whitney
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and information (especially mounted newspaper clippings from 1895 to 1934) on Carrie Westlake Whitney, or Carrie Whitney, founding librarian of the Kansas City Public Library and a poet and essayist born in Virginia and dying in Kansas City in 1934.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Mrs. Carrie Westlake Whitney, or Carrie Whitney, founding and head librarian of the Kansas City Public Library. Native of Virginia raised near Sedalia, Missouri and at Saint Louis before becoming "appointed librarian of the Kansas City Public Library March, 1881."
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Libraries of the West
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Description
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Speech by Kansas City librarian Carrie W. Whitney about Western libraries, including the Kansas City Public Library.
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Date
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1895-11-30
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Carrie Westlake Whitney Speech Excerpt
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Description
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Excerpt from Carrie W. Whitney's speech, "Libraries of the West," making use of the term, "Gate City," signifying Kansas City.
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Date
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1895-11-30
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Carrie Westlake Whitney
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Description
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Obituary for Carrie Westlake Whitney, or Carrie Whitney, "Mother of the Kansas City Public Library" as the first public librarian of Kansas City. Native of Virginia coming to Kansas City as librarian at a rental library (the city's first circulating library) at 8th and Main Streets in 1881 before being appointed public librarian at the northeast corner of 8th and Walnut Streets. Later moved to a new library building at the southwest corner of 8th and Oak Streets (later demolished) and then another larger new library building at 9th and Locust Streets in 1898, serving as head librarian until succeeded by Purd Wright in 1911.
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Date
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1934-04-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Carrie Westlake Whitney
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Description
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Obituary for Carrie Westlake Whitney, or Carrie Whitney, "Mother of the Kansas City Public Library" as the first public librarian of Kansas City. Native of Virginia coming to Kansas City as librarian at a rental library (the city's first circulating library) at 8th and Main Streets in 1881 before being appointed public librarian at the northeast corner of 8th and Walnut Streets. Later moved to a new library building at the southwest corner of 8th and Oak Streets (later demolished) and then another larger new library building at 9th and Locust Streets in 1898, serving as head librarian until succeeded by Purd Wright in 1911.
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Date
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1934-04-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Prominent Kansas Citians
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Description
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Composite view; left to right: L.E. Irwin, Carrie Whitney, Theodore Case, A.R. Meyer, Robert Weatherford, E.E. Ellis, George C. Hale, Edward F. Sweeney.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Carrie Westlake Whitney
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Description
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Transcript of a presentation given at The Kansas City Public Library sponsored by the Women's City Club. Carrie Westlake Whitney was the first librarian of The Kansas City Public Library and the author of a three-volume history of Kansas City.
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Date
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2010-05-26
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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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 Carrie Westlake Whitney, or Carrie Whitney, "the mother of Kansas City's public library system," dying in 1934. Native of Virginia coming here as head of "the first circulating library in Kansas City at [8th Street] and Main streets in 1881" before promoting the library built in 1889 at 8th and Oak Streets (later razed) and then the 1898 library at 9th and Locust Streets (still standing as of 2001). Also author of a 3-volume history of Kansas City and of children's poetry including lyrics to Christmas music composed by Carl Busch.
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Date
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1992
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Object Type
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Book
