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Title
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'Mother' of 100 Takes Children into Heart
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Description
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Biographical article with photo about Mrs. Willa Carter, 78-year-old matriarch of a large adopted family of over 100 foster children in Kansas City. The story is told of her long process of adopting starting around 1940 with her late husband David Carter at their residence at 2430 Brooklyn Avenue.
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Date
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1975-07-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Gossett Family Golden Anniversary
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Description
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Group portrait of the Rev. Jacob Dunham Gossett and Joan (Jo Ann) Frances Ratliff Gossett and their immediate family members taken on their golden wedding anniversary. The family sit and stand in front of the entrance to their home in Independence, Missouri, on South Main and Ruby. Patriotic cloths surround the pillars and at the top of the photo is a banner that reads, "GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY/FATHER and MOTHER MARRIED 50 YEARS/1846/TO DAY./1896." On the back, in pencil is written, "Emma/J. D. Gossett."
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Date
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1896-09-02
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Gossett Family
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Description
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Members of the Rev. J. D. Gossett family taken at their house near Independence, Missouri. On the bottom front is "RESIDENCE OF/J. D. GOSSETT/1869." Some family members are on the second-story outside porch; some immediately below on the front porch. Two couples each sit in their own carriage on either side of the entrance.
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Date
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1869
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Gossett Family Golden Anniversary
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Description
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Group portrait of the Rev. Jacob Dunham Gossett and Joan (Jo Ann) Frances Ratliff Gossett and family members taken on their golden wedding anniversary. The photo was taken in front of the Gossett home in Independence, Missouri, on South Main and Ruby. Full exterior and partial side view of the two-story brick home from which hangs a United States flag and a banner saying, "GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY/FATHER and MOTHER MARRIED 50 YEARS/1846/TO DAY./1896." On the back, hand written in ink is a list of the people in the photograph and at the top, "House on South Main & Ruby, Independence, Mo./(not torn down)."
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Date
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1896-09-02
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 12 with Unrelated Cards
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards arranged in two columns showing the following:1. Three women at a table looking on as a man reads to them.2. A man on a horse roping a bull. Card says: "'Testing' Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton."3. A man riding an unidentified farm machine being pulled across a grassy field by a horse.4. A couple lying under an umbrella at the beach, a sailing ship in the distance. Card says: "J. and P. Coats' Thread."5. Two children dancing outside. Card says: "Founded 1829. E. Jaccard Jewelry Company, Fifth and Olive Sts, St. Louis, Mo."6. White daisies and a banner that says: "A Merry Christmas."7. Holly surrounding a winter scene with cottage. Card says: "A Happy Christmas."8. A hunting dog in pointing posture. Card says: "F. A. Wells and Co., The Clothiers. 167 Main St..."" (Last words are worn off.)9. A rooster standing by a box with a chicken and hatching chicks. Card says: "Call for Corle's Crackers and Candies."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 32 with African American Stereotypes
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing eight advertising cards showing African Americans in various situations. Two of the cards are missing. The cards show:1. Two geese with bodies made of bags of tobacco and cotton flying over a man in a field. Card says: "Copyright. Richmond and Co., Buffalo, N.Y."2. A man holding a fishing rod sitting by a river on a large spool of "Clark's O.N.T. Spool Cotton." Caption says: "'I reckon dis yere's strong 'nuff suah.'"3. A woman fixing a man's tie as three children look on. Caption says: "Sunday. Yer looks Lubly Ephraim, and it all comes-using dat Higgins' Soap."4. A woman and some children opening the door to a visitor or salesman whose coat tails are being nibbled by a goat. Card says: "Compliments of the Domestic Sewing Machine Co."5. A man sitting holding a tambourine.6. Two people in "native" dress leading an elephant. Card says: "Soap Makers, Chicago. 'Blue India.'"7. A man singing.8. Three people and a cat kneeling on the floor looking at their reflections in a stove. Card says: "Rising Sun Stove Polish. 'I say Snow Flake, dat stove was blacked with rising sun. Did you eber see de like?'"
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 56 with Children
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing nine advertising cards showing the following:1. An African American man holding a duck and basket. Card says: "Chas. E. Marsh, Printer and Stationer, Greenville, N. H."2. Two cards for:.""Curtis Davis and Co. Boston, Mass. Welcome Soap." showing a woman holding a baby while a man admires it and a sailor running to embrace a woman. Lower right corner of both cards says: "Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York."3. A child holding up a bottle labeled, "Burdock Blood Bitters."4. A child playing a mandolin.5. Flowers and a geometric border. Card says: "Reward of Merit to Hattie Light by Mollie Hayes, Teacher.."(Names are handwritten.)6. A girl holding flowers.7. A coachman with a whip and very large head.8. Two children sitting in a chair with a doll and a brochure with a man leaning over the back watching them. Card says: "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Cures Colds, Coughs, and all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs. Prepared by J. C. Ayers and Co. Lowell, Mass, U. S. A."
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card
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Title
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Gosset Family Brothers
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Description
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Family portrait of the six sons of Rev. J. D. Gossett. Written on the back in pencil: "Gossett Brothers; Claud Stone/Sept 30-1868; Edward Burnham/July 24-1865; Caleb Sanford/June 18-1847; Martin Ratliff/April 11-1857; Alfred Newton/Nov 13-1861; Matthias/July 4-1848." They are pictured on the front steps of the home of Martin Ratliff Gossett at 2430 Brooklyn in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1906~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Gossett Family
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Description
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Portrait of the Gossett Family on Thanksgiving in front of the home of Martin Ratliff Gossett at 2430 Brooklyn in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Date
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1896~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Family Time
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about family businesses in Greater Kansas City including the following: (1) CPG Incorporated run by Georgia Clark and her daughter Neoshia Paige, (2) J. M. Fahey Construction Company run by Kevin Fahey and his brother Joe Fahey, (3) O'Neill Communications run by Pat O'Neill, his wife Julie O'Neill, and their daughter Keli O'Neill Wenzel.
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Date
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2001-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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SC120 Clifton B. Sloan Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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Clifton B. Sloan papers include genealogical materials from the Sloan estate and nineteenth-century correspondence, clippings, family charts, etc.
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Date
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1876/1938
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 73 with People Sewing
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Description
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Scrapbook page containing seven advertising cards. Three are "Copyright 1894, by the Singer Manufacturing Co." printed by "J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y." They show the following:1. Three adults and a child in a room, one using a sewing machine. Card says: "Lerwick."2. Four black men in grass skirts kneeling around a sewing machine outside. Card says: "Caroline Islands."3. A woman in traditional dress using a sewing machine. Card says: "Wurtemburg." The other cards show:1. A woman in ancient dress leaning on a wall. Lower left corner of card says: "MKCo."2. A couple with a wall of posters behind them. 3. A battle scene identified as "Arizona."4. A donkey and geese outside looking at an empty puppet theater.
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Date
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1885~
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Object Type
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Advertising Card