Special Collections and Archives Finding Aids

This record group series contains Ernest H. Newcomb's personal papers, general office files, correspondence, scrapbooks, administrative reports, bulletins, financial documents, and diaries from when he served as the executive secretary to the University of Kansas City's Board of Trustees, dated 1919-1937. Items included in the collection after Newcomb's death in 1979 are related to the University of Missouri--Kansas City dedicating a campus building in his honor in the 1980s.

This record series contains the operational and administrative records for the University of Kansas City Board of Trustees. It includes publications and printed material; meeting minutes; ledgers; and fundraising documents. Of note are the charters for UKC's merger with the University of Missouri System in 1966.