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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
Snow Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: KC-19-41
Scope and Contents
This copy of a letter was sent to E. Grey Dimond by Kenneth Krakauer, whose father was a business acquaintance of Edgar Snow's father.The letter is from Edgar Snow, dated August 22, 1932, to his father, James Edgar Snow. It describes the Chinese commemorative stamps Edgar sent to his father, an avid stamp collector. It also tells of the current political situation in China, such as Japan controlling Manchuria and the potential for Communists in the country to start a...
Dates:
1932 August 22
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
The Kangaroo Humor Magazine
Series
Identifier: KC-23-8-00
Scope and Contents
Students debuted The Kangaroo humor magazine in April 1937, the same year the University of Kansas City's student council moved to adopt the kangaroo as the university's official mascot. The kangaroo did not appear on the magazine's cover until the second issue in May 1937. By Fall 1937, Kasey Kangaroo was born as the official mascot. The following year, magazine staff contacted Walt Disney for a drawing of Kasey Kangaroo in his style. Disney's artwork appears on...
Dates:
1937-1940
The Sosland Journal
Series
Identifier: KC-3-13-00-001
Scope and Contents
This record group series contains print issues of The Sosland Journal dating between 2020 and 2023. It is an annual publication funded by Rheta Sosland-Hurwitt that features essays by student winners and runners-up of the Ilus W. Davis Writing Competition. The publication originally began in 1989, and past issues dated 1989 through 2013 are available to view in ...
Dates:
2020-2023
The University Review Records
Series
Identifier: KC-1-261
Scope and Contents
The University Review Records contain administrative documents related to creating, editing, and publishing the literary magazine.
Of note are published volumes dating between Spring 1935 up to Summer 1971. Select volumes from the 1940s are available to view on-site at Miller Nichols Library's Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room.
Dates:
1934-1971
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
UMKC Conservatory Catalogs and Bulletins
Series
Identifier: KC-4-00-001
Scope and Contents
This series contains course catalogues and bulletins from the previous iterations of the UMKC Conservatory: The Kansas City Conservatory of Music (or the Conservatory of Music of Kansas City); the Horner Institute of Fine Arts; the Cranston School of Music; the Horner Institute-Kansas City Conservatory; and the Kansas City-Horner Conservatory of Music. The publications date from 1906 to 1957, from before the institution merged with the University of Kansas City in 1959.
Dates:
1906-1957
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