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The Wiktor Labunski collection was transferred from University Archives in August 2019. The collection consists of his piano, orchestral, vocal, and chamber compositions. There are also his cadenzas, transcriptions, and arrangements, and other composers’ works that he collected. The collection includes his extensive memoir and compositional notes.

Materials range from 1894-2012.

Scope and Contents The Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections by Clayton's wife, Patricia. The collection, which spans from 1928 to Clayton’s death in 1991, contains material related to the jazz composer/arranger/trumpeter’s personal and professional life. The collection was acquired in two parts: August 1997 and August 2000. Both parts (formerly MS15 and MS25) have since been consolidated into one collection (MS15).Materials in the first accession include...

Scope and Contents The Wilder Wylie Collection was donated to the University of Missouri-Kansas City in June 1990.Housed in LaBudde Special Collections, the manuscript materials consist of radio scripts for KIDO-NBC, the Bob Hope Show, various radio plays produced by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), radio commercials for Borden dairy products, as well as scripts for several television shows. Many of these scripts are written by Wilder Wylie. Among the KIDO radio programs are nearly all the...

Scope and Contents The William “Bill” Randall Williams Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections by Austin Williams in January 2017. Most items date from 1982-1986, when Bill Williams campaigned for and served as legislator for the 11th district in Jackson County. While the eulogy and obituary in the biographical series show the Bill Williams known by his family and friends, the collection as a whole is representative of William’s career as county legislator.The largest part of the...

Scope and Contents The Trumbauer Collection was donated to the UMKC Libraries in June 2006 by drummer Bill M. Trumbauer, son of trumpeter William (Bill) F. Trumbauer and grandson of jazz saxophonist Frank Trumbauer. Included were materials related to Frank and Bill F. An addendum of material was gifted in September 2010 by Bill M. and Mary Trumbauer, widow of Bill F. At that time the collection was separated into two distinct collections: Frank Trumbauer Collection and William F. Trumbauer Collection....

Scope and Contents The William Henry Humiston Collection, housed in the Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections, was purchased from the MacDowell Colony by the University of Missouri-Kansas City in the early 1970s. The collection consists of original manuscript scores and fragments by Humiston, arrangements by Humiston of other composers' works, and published scores by Humiston and by others. Also included are items about Humiston's life and career, including biographical sketches, musical...

Scope and Contents The William Volker & Company Collection is housed in the LaBudde Special Collections at the UMKC Miller Nichols Library. The collection consists of material related to Volker and his Kansas City-based company, a picture-frame/window-shade retail manufacturer that became a successful home-furnishings wholesaler with locations across the country. The collection is divided into three series, Biographical/Historical, Advertisements/Promotions, and Photographs/Graphics; and includes primarily...

Scope and Contents The Willis Sylvester Quant Collection, housed in the Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections, was donated in October of 2017 to the University of Missouri-Kansas City by his sister Dorothy’s caretaker. It contains manuscript copies of over 30 piano, vocal, and string compositions by Quant. It also includes piano technique exercise manuals written by Quant.The manuscript scores include dated (1964-1981) and undated works. The majority of the works are for piano,...

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The Women’s Committee for the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance Collection was gifted by the organization to LaBudde Special Collections in late 2016. The collection includes organizational materials such as officer and board member files, committee papers, and meeting materials; correspondence from various members regarding business; financial documents; scholarship and benefit information; scrapbooks; and photographs from the 1980s to the present.

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The World War II Collection is housed in LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library. The assorted collection consists of war-related correspondence, postcards, civil defense ephemera, rationing stamps and ephemera, North American Aviation, uniform and equipment identification literature, war loans, news clippings and other miscellaneous items.

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The Zine Collection was established with the first donation to LaBudde Special Collections in December 2015, after the Kansas City Zine Convention 2015. Comprising multiple individually-named series, the Zine Collection contains hundreds of magazines representing local and national underground/DIY culture, dating 1970s-2020s.