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Matchbook Cover Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0150
Scope and Contents
The Matchbook Cover Collection was an anonymous gift to LaBudde Special Collections in Spring 2009. The collection consists of matchbook covers related to businesses, products and services; and divided into six series: Missouri – Kansas City; Kansas – Kansas City; Missouri – Other Cities and Towns; Kansas – Other Cities and Towns; Other States; and Miscellaneous. The Miscellaneous and both Kansas City series are categorized by topic, while the remaining series are arranged by geographic...
Dates:
Undated
McLean Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0151
Scope and Contents
The McLean Family Collection was acquired in April 2009 as a gift from Martha McLean Simpson, daughter of Minnie and Lawrence McLean. The collection contains both personal information about the McLean Family as well as material relating to the McLean Band Shop in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The band shop was patronized by many local and well-known visiting musicians. There are photographs of such celebrities as Benny Goodman, Tex Beneke and Sammy Kaye. Hal McLean, Lawrence McLean’s older...
Dates:
1855 - 1949
Mel Lewis Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0008
Scope and Contents
The Mel Lewis Collection was donated to the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri-Kansas City by Doris Sokoloff in 1996. The collection consists of material related to Lewis’ life and career and dates from the 1940s to the 1990s.Housed in LaBudde Special Collections, the manuscript materials include biographical information, correspondence, business records, programs, datebooks, publications, clippings, awards, music scores, miscellaneous ephemera and memorabilia,...
Dates:
1940 - 1996
Melinda Ryder Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0304
Scope and Contents
The Melinda Ryder Collection is comprised of promotional material related to the career of the long-time Kansas City female impersonator. It features posters, cards, flyers, and other ephemera documenting her career throughout the 2000s. It also includes a large number of greeting cards from a wide-range of well-wishers, and the “thank you” cards give an indication of Winter’s and Nelson’s charitable activities. The collection also includes a small number of photographs, print and...
Dates:
1979 - 2019
Michael Boles Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0209
Scope and Contents
Photos in UMKC Digital Special CollectionsThe Michael Boles Collection was gifted to LaBudde Special Collections in April 2012 by Michael Boles. The collection consists of 119 color images on 35mm slide format, dating from 1962-1969. They feature patrons of and performers at local Kansas City nightclubs - including the Colony Club & Forest Ballroom, 1962-1969.Related collection: Robert...
Dates:
1962 - 1969
Michael C. O'Laughlin Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0132
Scope and Contents
The Michael O'Laughlin Collection was a gift of O'Laughlin in July 2020. It consists of book reviews, correspondence, presentation notes and research, Irish Roots Café website and podcast viewership statistics, summaries and outlines of future podcast episodes, song lyrics, publications, O’Lochlainns Personal Journal of Irish Families, photographs, sheet music, and audio and video that O’Laughlin created and collected related to Irish music, genealogy, and Kansas City and Midwest cultural...
Dates:
1881 - 2020
Michael Davenport Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0006
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mostly of radio advertisments, many of which are for the Crown Center, located in Kansas City, MO. There are also recordings of the radio show "Shameless Chef Radio."
Dates:
1974 - 1988
Michael Herzmark and Melissa Wayne Video Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0116
Scope and Contents
Contains original video recordings used for the documentary film 45 Years Across the Bridge: The Battles of Selma, produced by Herzmark and Wayne. The tapes hold hundreds of hours of interview footage of Civil Rights activists, politicians, scholars, and Selma residents speaking on the Civil Rights Movement, the Selma to Montgomery march, and their views of Selma at the time the footage was captured in 2009. The collection includes interviews with Alston Fitts, Carl Galmon, Rutha Harris,...
Dates:
1965 - 2009
Michael Johnston Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0023
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of recordings by Kansas City area musician and songwriter, Michael Johnston. Included are audiotapes of original songs and radio spots from 1970s to 1980s.
Dates:
1972 - 1989
Michelle Boulé Bad Music Hour Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0408
Scope and Contents
Contains recordings of the radio program "Bad Music Hour," hosted by Michelle Boulé on KCUR-FM, 1992-1996.
Dates:
1992-1995
Mid-America Freedom Band Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0265
Scope and Contents
The Mid America Freedom Band Collection was donated by the Kansas City-based organization in January 2015 and 2018. Dating 2003 onward, the collection primarily consists of programs from MAFB concerts as well as promotional posters and flyers. Also included is select organizational information such as handbooks and by-laws from certain years, donation mailers, MAFB performances on DVD and CD formats, and miscellaneous ephemera and memorabilia such as two MAFB banners used at Pride events and...
Dates:
2002 - 2015
Mike Adams Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0415
Scope and Contents
The audiovisual materials in this collection consists of many live recordings of renown jazz musicians playing in the Kansas City area and surrounding region, including Jay McShann, Pat Metheney, Clark Terry, Zoot Simms, Woody Herman, Barney Kessel, and Ella Fitzgerald, among other legends. The collection also consists of jazz festival recordings, including the Mid-America Jazz Festival, Wichita Jazz Festival, Jazz Olympics, and the Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival.
Dates:
1962 - 2004
Miriam Hennosy Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0208
Scope and Contents
The Miriam Hennosy Collection was a gift of Miriam Hennosy in March 2012. The collection contains newsletters, internal documents, correspondence, and posters regarding the Human Rights Project in Kansas City, MO, from the years 1994-1997, when Hennosy was a board member. There are also various documents pertaining to other pro-civil rights groups, such as GLAAD, NGLTF, HRC, and the Four Freedoms Democratic Club, as well as a number of flyers, publications, articles, posters, and political...
Dates:
1990 - 2000
Missouri Constitution Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0144
Scope and Contents
Materials in this collection pertain to the formation of Missouri’s fourth constitution, adopted in 1945. Inclusive dates in the collection are 1944-1945.
Dates:
1944 - 1945
Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC) Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0218
Scope and Contents
The Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC) Collection was donated in 2012 by the organization. The collection consists of various organizational, financial, and contractual documents pertaining to MLNC, its associated networks,and participating libraries. The collection materials range in date from 1977-2011, with the bulk of the collection from 1983-1989. General operations, board meetings, annual reports, and network affiliations make up the breadthof this collection from the early...
Dates:
1976 - 2011
Music Library Association Midwest Chapter Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0288
Scope and Contents
The Music Library Association-Midwest Chapter Collection was gifted by the organization to LaBudde Special Collections in early 2016 with additional materials gifts in 2018. Thecollection includes organizational materials such as officer and board member files, committee papers, and meeting materials; correspondence from various members on MLA business; issues of MLA’snewsletter The Notebook; miscellaneous resources, guides and publicity; anda small amount of photographs from two MLA...
Dates:
1940 - 2013
Mutual Musicians Foundation Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0095
Scope and Contents
Original Project Images: Photo Thumbnails (Wall Photos and Individual Prints #1-181) (PDF)
Original Project Images: Photo Descriptions (Wall and #1-181) (PDF)
...
Dates:
1920s - 2000s
Myra Christopher/Center for Practical Bioethics Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0310
Scope and Contents
The Myra Christopher/Center for Practical Bioethics Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections in September 2019 by Myra Christopher herself. The collection is centered on Christopher’s career and activities as an advocate of end-of-life care and palliative medicine among other issues. The majority of the collection is comprised of organizational documents detailing the relationships between the Center for Practical Bioethics, the Midwest Bioethics Center, and their related...
Dates:
1973-2016
Nancie Thomas Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0321
Scope and Contents
The Nancie Thomas collection consists of newspapers, mailers, fliers, invitations, tickets, promotional ephemera and memorabilia, business and membership cards, T-shirts, and photographs related to the Kansas City LGBTQ+ community. Emphasis is on items related to Kansas City gay and lesbian bars and their sponsored events in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Dates:
1977 - 2016
New Letters on the Air Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0032
Scope and Contents
The audiovisual materials contain a vast amount of audio interviews of poets and authors that were created and broadcast on radio by New Letters on the Air. The majority of the collection resides on analog audiotape, created between 1977 and 2006. The poets and authors interviewed by New Letters on the Air were numerous, extensive, and diverse. Some prominent literary figures in the collection include Amiri Baraka, Moshe Dor, Rita Dove, Nuruddin Farah, Betty Friedan, Allen Ginsberg, Nikki...
Dates:
1969 - 2006
New Letters Records
Series
Identifier: KC-1-262
Scope and Contents
The New Letters Records contain administrative documents related to creating, editing, and publishing the literary magazine.
Of note are published volumes dating between Winter 1971 up to the present. Select volumes from the 1970s and the present are available to view on-site at Miller Nichols Library's Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room.
Dates:
1971-2023
Norman Saks Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0255
Scope and Contents
The Norman Saks Collection was donated by Saks to LaBudde Special Collections in the summer of 2014. The expansive nature of this collection is a reflection of Mr. Saks’ dedication to all aspects of Jazz music. A series of personal documents feature Saks ’correspondences as well as research materialsspecifically related to jazz artists, including: newspaper clippings, interviews, and artist contracts. Includedwith this series is a copy of The Charlie Parker Discography, completed by Saks,...
Dates:
1904 - 2013
Nym Wales Papers
Collection
Identifier: KC-19-6
Scope and Contents
The Nym Wales papers document American journalist Helen Foster Snow's activities when she reported from China in the 1930s under the name Nym Wales. She reported on the developing Chinese Civil War, the Korean independence movement, and the Second Sino-Japanese War. The materials include her reminiscences of her time reporting in China between 1933 through 1937. Helen married Edgar Snow in 1932 and interviewed Chinese Communist leaders in Yan'an alongside her husband in 1937. The couple...
Dates:
1928-1987
O. T. Honey National Guard Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0063
Scope and Contents
The content is from 1940-1952 and includes presidential addresses by Harry S Truman and F.D.R. as well as recordings of the 140th Infantry Band conducted by Lt. O.T. Honey. The paper materials of this collection are housed at the Missouri State Archives as the O.T. Honey National Guard Collection (MS172).
Dates:
1941 - 1952
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