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Ruth Rhoden Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0041
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of DVDs, VHS Tapes, and U-matic tapes of Ruth's Music Corner, a public access television program hosted by Ruth Rhoden from 1988-1996. The collection contains many interviews and recordings of live performances by Kansas City jazz musicians. Other recordings include live performances and raw footage from Kansas City Alive, where Ruth had her own jazz-oriented segment, which evolved into Ruth’s Music Corner.
Dates:
1977 - 2004
Scoop Phillips Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0163
Scope and Contents
The Scoop Phillips Collection was gifted in December 2009 to LaBudde Special Collections by Jim Phillips, his brother. The collection dates from 1966 to 1992 and contains primarily material related to the gay community in Kansas City, including a number of essays Phillips published while at Park College that address various aspects of gay life in Kansas City and the Midwest. Also included are local and national publications, materials related to the Pink Triangle Political Coalition, and...
Dates:
1966 - 1992
Scott Bock Blues 45 RPM Disc Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0389
Scope and Contents
The collection contains recordings of blues music on 45 RPM disc, many of which were autographed by the artist. Scott Bock's collection also contains LP recordings and those will be found in UMKC Libraries catalog.
Dates:
1950s - 2000s
Sheet Music Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0387
Scope and Contents
Sheet Music Collection Finding Aid (PDF).Sheet music from the Kansas City, World War I and World War II imprint collections is temporarily unavailable through Digital Special Collections. If you'd like to request any titles, please contact SpecialCollections@umkc.edu. The Sheet Music...
Dates:
1790s - 2000s
Sherm Gibson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0086
Scope and Contents
Live Kansas City Jazz recordings
Dates:
1963 - 1981
Sidney Willens Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0053
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of several recorded speeches of Harold Roe Bartle, the 47th mayor of Kansas City.
Dates:
1989
Sister Cities Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0140
Scope and Contents
The Sister Cities Collection contains photographs and ephemera from various events and activities conducted during the visit of a delegation from Seville, Spain – Kansas City’s first sister city.The collection is contained in one manuscript box and divided into 14 folders. The material has been sorted into three categories: miscellaneous, photographs and news clippings. The miscellaneous includes invitations, souvenir booklets, programs and postcards. The photographs are mostly...
Dates:
October 1967
Solita Palmer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0051
Scope and Contents
The Solita Palmer Collection is archived at the UMKC Miller Nichols Library.Housed in LaBudde Special Collections, the manuscript materials contain correspondence, biographies, band music, manuscript scores, miscellaneous, published music, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to the composer.Housed in the Marr Sound Archives, the audiovisual materials consist of test pressings and demos of songs written by Solita Palmer and Emerson Yorke. Included are several...
Dates:
1892 - 1988
Song Sheet Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0141
Scope and Contents
The Song Sheet Collection was assembled as an artificial collection from an unknown source, and consists of dozens of song sheets arranged by title.
Dates:
1742 - 1943
Stephen R. Johnson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0341
Scope and Contents
The Stephen R. Johnson Collection was gifted to the UMKC University Libraries by Debra F. Johnson and Russell Johnson in March 2016.Housed in LaBudde Special Collections, the manuscript collection contains a diverse assortment of materials from the music video and television director, animator, painter, and writer’s personal and professional life. There are awards and accolades, storyboards and screenplays, and newspaper clippings about Johnson’s work. There are photographs of...
Dates:
1890 - 2012
Steve Miller Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0200
Scope and Contents
The Steve Miller Collection was a gift to the University Libraries in September 2011. Materials date from 1951-2012, with the majority of non-musical materials originating from the 1980s and 1990s. The impressive bulk of this collection can be found in the music manuscripts. Contained are over one thousand pieces of music, including pieces that are original arrangements and pieces that were performed by Miller’s ensembles.Most non-musical items in the collection give a wide...
Dates:
1913 - 2007
Steven Case Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0306
Content Description
The Steven Case Collection was a gift of Case in September 2018 and consists of personal and professional correspondence, court filings, witness deposition transcripts, newspaper clips, position statements, presentation resources, and other materials related to the Annie on My Mind case, especially the involvement of Steven Case; it also includes two maps.
Dates:
1969 - 1999
Steven R. Pierce Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0180
Scope and Contents
The Steven R. Pierce Collection was gifted in July 2010 to LaBudde Special Collections by Pierce. The collection ranges in dates from 1983-1993 and contains a plethora of information dealing with the AIDS epidemic during a period when there was much trepidation and ignorance regarding this disease. The materials within this collection are focused on education; myth busting and bringing overall awareness to the forefront.Numerous entities came together to fight not only for the...
Dates:
1980 - 1999
Stuart MacKay Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0172
Scope and Contents
The Stuart MacKay Collection was gifted to the LaBudde Department of Special Collections in May 2010. The collection consists primarily of jazz and classical music arrangements by John Saunders for MacKay’s woodwind quintet and band. These manuscripts are undated and unpublished. Included also are copies of two published MacKay compositions, fake books, bassoon and woodwind scores, a theory textbook, and some promotional material and personal papers. Inclusive dates are 1938-1986.
Dates:
1938 - 1986
Sue Vicory Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0328
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of raw video recordings of interviews and live performances of Kansas City jazz and blues musicians that were used to create the 2011 documentary "Kansas City Jazz & Blues: Past, Present & Future", produced and directed by Sue Vicory.
Dates:
2007 - 2012
Suzanne Statland Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0137
Scope and Contents
The Suzanne Statland Collection in Holocaust Studies was created in 1991 when Dr. Harry Statland established an endowment in honor of his late wife, a researcher and collector on the subject. Focusing on the rise and reign of Nazism and the ensuing Holocaust, the collection consists of published and manuscript material such as books, periodicals, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence, photographs, news clippings, reports, interviews and oral histories, and propaganda and miscellaneous items....
Dates:
1873 - 1987
T. E. Roderick Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0217
Scope and Contents
The T. E. Roderick Collection was transferred from New Mexico State University to LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, in 2009. This collection contains the business correspondence of Roderick ranging in date from 1912-1914. These business correspondence discuss details relevant to the conglomeration of 27 separate farms into a single new company that would be called Ozark Peach and Apple Farm Co. Roughly half of the farms were already active orchards, with the...
Dates:
1912 - 1914
Ted Malone Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0187
Scope and Contents
The Ted Malone Collection was gifted to UMKC Libraries in November 2010, with addendum material gifted in April 2012. It contains materials related to his extensive career as a radio and television personality.Housed in LaBudde Special Collections, the manuscript materials contain over 4,000 program scripts for various radio venues he hosted. Also included are personal and business correspondence, promotional material, periodicals, travel literature, and a daunting selection of...
Dates:
1864 - 2003
The Great Tichborne Case Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0112
Scope and Contents
The Great Tichborne Case Collection is housed in the LaBudde Special Collections of the UMKC Miller Nichols Library. It is a lean but significant collection of ephemera and other items documenting the celebrated 19th-century legal case in the United Kingdom of Arthur Orton, an impostor who claimed to be missing heir Sir Roger Tichborne. Orton’s conduct was so outrageous that it was the target for much fodder in newspapers and other publications. The collection highlights the vast notoriety...
Dates:
1871 - 1898
Theodore Lawrence Painting Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0148
Scope and Contents
The Theodore Lawrence Painting Company Collection was a gift from Barbara Millman, granddaughter of Lawrence, to LaBudde Special Collections in February 2009. Although the collection is scant, it contains significant insight into Lawrence and the successful painting business he developed in Kansas City, Missouri, beginning in 1903. Included is biographical information, correspondence, promotional material, periodicals containing articles on Lawrence, news clippings, photographs and other...
Dates:
1903 - 1976
Theodore (Ted) Dreher Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0077
Scope and Contents
The Theodore (Ted) Dreher Collection was donated to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library in December 2007 by David Paul Dreher (grandson) and Ted Dreher (son). The manuscript collection is housed in LaBudde Special Collections, while the sound recordings are held in the Marr Sound Archives. The collection, which includes material from the 1910s to the 1990s, is contained in 21 manuscript boxes and is divided into series: Manuscript Scores, Musicals, Music Notebooks, Correspondence, and...
Dates:
1913 - 1994
Thomas Weaver Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0279
Scope and Contents
The Thomas Weaver Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections by Thomas Weaver’s wife, Dera Weaver, in November 2014. It consists almost entirely of musical scores in the classical tradition. These scores have been separated by title, and stored with all related materials (parts, sketches, pre-composition, notes) in their own unique folder. Box 1, folder 6 contains Weaver’s only published score, Seven Dialogues: For Flute and Bb Clarinet. The remainder of Weaver’s scores are...
Dates:
1940 - 1973
Tom Wells and Geri St. Clair Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0052
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of laquer discs recordings of Joe Hamm.
Dates:
1938
U. S. Epperson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0107
Scope and Contents
The U.S. Epperson Collection is housed in LaBudde Special Collections at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The collection consists of material related to Kansas City businessman and philanthropist Uriah Spray Epperson and his wife Mary Elizabeth Weaver Epperson, whose palatial home at 5200 Cherry Street was willed to the University after Mrs. Epperson’s death in 1939. The Epperson House has served as a number of different types of offices, classrooms and spaces at UMKC over the years,...
Dates:
1893 - 1939
Universal Underwriters Group Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0185
Scope and Contents
The Universal Underwriters Group Collection was the gift of Pat Fischer at Zurich in North America (formerly Universal Underwriters Group). Contained in the collection are a wide variety of documents that represent both the history of the company as well as more day-to-day business matters. A great many magazine advertisements and brochures are here as well, along with some awards (certificates, plaques). The collection boasts a large collection of various newsletters and publications, as...
Dates:
1930 - 2008
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