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Title: Highland Cemetery
Description: View of grave markers in Highland Cemetery. Cemetery is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Highland Cemetery
Description: View of grave marker in Highland Cemetery for the Unthank family. Cemetery is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here. Dr. Thomas Unthank (1866-1932) was a noted African American physician.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lincoln Cemetery
Description: View of grave of jazz musician Charlie Parker and Addie Parker as found in Lincoln Cemetery. This African American cemetery is located at 8604 East Truman Road in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Highland Cemetery
Description: View of grave marker in Highland Cemetery for Dr. Thomas Unthank (1866-1932). Cemetery is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here. Dr. Unthank opened Lange Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and co-founded, with Dr. S. H. Thompson, Douglass Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Both were African American hospitals.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Highland Cemetery, Gravestone for Lafayette A. Tillman
Description: View of grave marker for Lafayette A. Tillman in Highland Cemetery which is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here. Lafayette Tillman was a soldier, a scholar, and one of Kansas City’s first African American citizens to be appointed to the police force.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lincoln Cemetery
Description: View of Lincoln Cemetery. This African American cemetery is located at 8604 East Truman Road in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

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