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This equal-arm balance scale is comprised of metal (likely brass) and weighs in accordance with the metric system. The most simplistic version of a b...
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These doors once defined the entry of the First National Bank building built in 1906 on 10th and Baltimore streets and what is now home to the Central...
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Leaders in Kansas City business have been involved in their city's larger civic life since the first settlers came here in the 1820s. The first forma...
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The chalk drawing depicted here highlights the spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois as it stands predominately in front of the Kemper Museum of Contem...
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Tempered glass clock with artistic silk screen printing acknowledges the work of the great artistic master of antiquity, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buon...
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Taylor S. Abernathy was born in Missouri to Harry Thomas Abernathy. The Abernathy family owned Abernathy Furniture Company in Kansas City. Taylor gr...
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Harry T. Abernathy was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on 23 May 1865 to Col. James L. Abernathy. Harry's father James, was the pioneer furniture manufact...
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Col. James L. Abernathy was born in Warren County, Ohio, March 20, 1833. Abernathy was famed for his business acumen, most notably Leavenworth, KS w...
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While the date for this particular etagere is unknown, it is a very nice example of an etagere. Etageres would have been used to hold and display orna...
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As described on the KCPL website, "Courtney S. Turner was an Atchison businessman and philanthropist. Before he died in 1986, he pledged to use his fi...