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Vincent Giordano Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0256
Scope and Contents
The Vince Giordano Collection was gifted by Giordano to LaBudde Special Collections in 2014. The collection relates to the noted New York bandleader and film/TV consultant specializing in 1920s and 1930s music. It comprises parts for over 2000 dance band arrangements of the era and consists of 34 boxes, each identified by title range. A complete list of tunes that includes title, composer, lyricist, arranger, publisher, and publishing date is also available.
Dates:
1899 - 1960
Virgil Thomson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0076
Scope and Contents
The Virgil Thomson Collection in the LaBudde Special Collections is one of two locations which house the Virgil Thomson’s Papers. The bulk of Thomson’s Papers is located at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University. The collection located at UMKC was a gift of John Obetz, originally given to the UMKC Conservatory of Music Library, formerly located in Grant Hall. The collection contains portions of Thomson’s career and personal life. Correspondence between Thomson,...
Dates:
1875 - 1984
Walt Bodine Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0210
Scope and Contents
The Walt Bodine Collection was gifted to LaBudde Special Collections in two stages by the family. The first donation was received in June 2012, with the remaining portion given in October 2012. Having been in the broadcasting business for seven decades, Walt Bodine produced a vast collection for those researchers interested in the study of communications or in the history of Kansas City, Missouri. The collection includes biographical background, radio scripts, correspondence, research tools,...
Dates:
1933 - 2015
Walter Brenner Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0088
Scope and Contents
The Walter Brenner Collection, housed in the Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections, was donated in the early 1970s to the University of Missouri-Kansas City by Brenner’s spouse, Meta Rika Brenner. The collection is divided into three series: Manuscript Music Scores, Published Music Scores, and Miscellaneous Documents and Ephemera. Manuscript scores form the heart of the collection and date from 1930-1967, with the majority composed between 1941 and 1960. As Brenner was a...
Dates:
1923 - 1973
Wang Fu Shih Papers
Collection
Identifier: KC-19-14
Scope and Contents
This folder contains excerpts from writer Wang Fu Shih's book Wao Guo Ji Zhe Xi Bei Yin Xiang Ji (Impressions of the North-west by a Foreign Journalist), his speech commemorating the 80th birthday of Edgar Snow, and copies of three letters to Wang from Helen Foster Snow and James Bertram. The folder also includes a letter to the Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation, dated October 1, 1985, explaining his donation to the Edgar Snow Collection.
Dates:
1937, 1985
Warren Durrett Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0059
Scope and Contents
The Warren Durrett Collection was donated to the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri-Kansas City by Janice Durrett, his widow. The manuscript collection is housed in LaBudde Special Collections, while the sound recordings are held in the Marr Sound Archives.The manuscripts collection contains 145 boxes and is divided into nine series, which includes correspondence, contracts, financial logbooks, miscellaneous, photographs, manuscript scores (Books I-XVI),...
Dates:
1916 - 2003
Wendy MacLaughlin Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0392
Scope and Contents
The Wendy MacLaughlin Collection was gifted to LaBudde Special Collections in September 2021 by William MacLaughlin. The collection includes Wendy MacLaughlin’s personal correspondence, interviews, thank you notes, writing materials, news clippings, a scrapbook, magazines, photographs, and manuscripts and supplemental documents related to plays that she wrote throughout her career.
Additional audio/visual material related to this collection is housed in the Marr Sound Archives.
Dates:
1955-2007
Wiktor Labunski Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0382
Content Description
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.
Dates:
1894-2022
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0015
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...
Dates:
1920 - 1999
Wilder Wylie Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0154
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...
Dates:
1943 - 1955
William B. Doty Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0082
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a recording of University of Kansas' 1964 production of West Side Story, in which Mr. Doty starred. Also included are DVDs and CDs of performances by Marilyn Maye, Louise Harrison, and Von Smith.
Dates:
1964 - 2009
William (Bill) Randall Williams Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0313
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...
Dates:
1981 - 1989
William F. Trumbauer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0145
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....
Dates:
1923 - 2010
William Henry Humiston Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0069
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...
Dates:
1800s - 1900s
William Ryan Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0044
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of recordings of Kansas City broadcasts, including the Walt Bodine Show, and programming from Kansas City based radio stations WDAF and WHB.
Dates:
1981 - 1996
William Volker & Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0117
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...
Dates:
1931 - 1976
William Zeephat Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0054
Scope and Contents
The collection consist of lacquer discs recordings of music collected by William Zeephat.
Dates:
Undated
Willis Quant Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0335
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,...
Dates:
1964 - 1982
Wink Wright Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0410
Scope and Contents
The audio materials in the collection consists of music recordings on lacquer discs and 45 RPM discs. Many of the discs were recorded for "Value Music Publications", owned by Wink Wright.
Dates:
1960s
Women’s Committee for the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0307
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1947 - 2016
World War II Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0160
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Yao Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: KC-19-46
Scope and Contents
Dorothy Yao donated folders 1 and 2, which contain a letter written by Edgar Snow to her husband Yao Hsin-nung, journalist, in September 1969; and a poem her daughter Hilda H. Yao wrote in memory of her father when he passed away in 1991. Hilda H. Yao donated folder 3 in 2005. Included in the documents file are photographs of Edgar Snow with the Yao family; correspondence between Snow and Yao Hsin-nung; a elegy to Lu Xun written in Chinese and translated into English by Hilda...
Dates:
1969, undated
Ying Ruocheng Collection of Cao Yu and Beijing People's Art Theatre Photographs
Series
Identifier: KC-19-51-9
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Ying Ruocheng's collected photographs that were previously used for a traveling exhibit. Many of the photographs have pencil inscriptions on the back written in Chinese. The first half of the collection (photographs labeled A through G) includes photographs that illustrate Chinese theatre performances of playwright Cao Yu's plays. The second half of the collection (photographs labeled H-AA) includes stills from other theatre productions performed by the Beijing...
Dates:
circa 1940-1979, undated
Zine Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0284
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1970s - 2020s
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