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The collection consists of letters written back and forth between Mary McKim and Bill Ray while they were dating during World War II. The letters were…

This items in the collection belonged to Lois Turner. Some items relate to her family while others are photographs collected by her. It is unclear as…

The photographs pertain to the ancestors of Kenneth Savage. Family names include Chandler, LeRay, Gunsolley, Savage, and Tyrrell. The photographs date…

The collection consists headstone photographs taken by Bethel 29, Independence International Order of Job’s Daughters (Independence, MO) in 1992. The…

The creator of the collection used the ahnetafel numbering system beginning with Jeffrey and Mark Drew each being number 1 and going back through the…

This collection consists of the family Bible for Nellie Oleta Griffitts and Abner Jefferson Marks. The cover and some of the pages of the Bible are…

Interview with former MCPL Library Director Dick Wilding who shares his memories of his time as part of the Mid-Continent Public Library system.

Irene Zamarripa Lopez was born November 9th, 1937 in Turner Kansas. Irene moved to Kansas City at age thirteen in 1951. She attended West Junior High…

Lynn Wild is a Wild Senior Outreach Librarian that grew up in Nebraska.

Interviewee Birth Year: 1951
Interviewer Birth Year: 1970
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Eugenie Maynard was born in Minnesota in 1950. She went to school in Moorhead, earning a degree in Accounting. During her school years from 1969-1972…

Gail "Randy" Randall Thompson, Jr. was born in Bakersfield, CA. At the age of two, his family moved to Kansas City, MO where his folks bought at house…

Cecil H. Simons was born in a log cabin in Lindy, Missouri on January 24, 1921. Lindy, Missouri was a small town (that no longer exists) in New Madrid…

Colleen Power was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She remained there until 1985 when she moved to Kansas City, Mo to go to Rockhurst College. She lived…

Margaret Pixley James was born March 7, 1927 in La Jolla, CA. She has been active in community service all her life and worked to promote racial…

Jo Newsom was born in Carrolton, Mo. She was raised on a farm and came to Kansas City to teach where she remains in the Northland.

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Susan Hiland went to Oak Park High School. A love of storytelling in high school led to theatre, announcements, broadcasting, and journalism. She grew…

Morgan Fleming is the owner and operator of Jewelry by Morgan. He is a Kansas City resident and local history buff.

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The composition book contains transcriptions of church and bible records. Church records include the English Lutheran Church of Kansas City, St.…

This collection contains obituaries from the Des Moines Register from 1991-1993. Only those individuals who were born in Missouri and died in Iowa…