Mary Atkins collection, 1900.
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Atkins, Mary, 1819-1882
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Mary McAfee Atkins was born in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, on October 22, 1836. She worked as a school teacher in her hometown until 1878, when she married her old friend James Burris Atkins, a widower with no children. They settled in Kansas City, where he had lived and worked in the mill business since 1865. James Atkins made some very successful speculations in downtown real estate. When he died in 1886, he left her a sizable fortune. Mrs. Atkins was in deep mourning for a year. Friends like Sara...
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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There was only one individual to hold an exhibition design related curatorship at the Museum. This was D. Craig Craven. Craven joined the Museum staff in March 1964 as the exhibitions designer. The following year the position title was changed to assistant curator of exhibitions. In 1970 Craven was promoted to curator of exhibitions. He left the Museum in 1973, after a short stint as the adjunct curator of exhibitions. From the description of Curator of Exhibitions records, 1967-1972...
