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Dr. Milton C. Lewis Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0043
Scope and Contents
The Dr. Milton C. Lewis Collection was purchased by the Department of Special Collections from Brian Thurn Antiques of Kansas City in January 2006. The collection, dating from 1913-1967, is small but rich inlocal history as experiencedthrough the life of Dr. Lewis, a local African-American physician. There are materials related to his medical practice, including patient reports, correspondence, a logbook and a journal with patient care information. Also included are materials related to...
Dates:
1912 - 1950
Dr. Norge Jerome Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0376
Scope and Contents
The Dr. Norge Jerome Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections by Claude Thau (on behalf of Jerome) in May 2019. The collection consists of Dr. Jerome’s research, publications, personal materials, and grant proposals, as well as other supplemental publications that were not authored by Dr. Jerome. There is extensive research on topics such as Avoidable Mortality from Cancers in Black Populations, Food Preference, and Children’s Television Advertising. The collection also includes...
Dates:
1909 - 2018
Dr. Theodore Herman Papers
Collection
Identifier: KC-19-26
Scope and Contents
This material was donated by Theodore Herman, a friend of Edgar Snow's, and removed from the Mary Clark Dimond Papers in July 1985.This material consists of correspondence between Theodore Herman, a professor at Colgate University, and Edgar Snow, regarding a possible lecture by Snow at Colgate. The correspondence includes discussion of Snow's documentary film "One Fourth of Humanity: The China Story," and of the student unrest at Colgate. The papers also contain photographs of...
Dates:
1937-1940, 1968-1971
Dr. Vincent T. Williams Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0071
Scope and Contents
The Dr. Vincent T. Williams Collection was donated to the University of Missouri-Kansas City by the Williams Estate. Housed in the Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections, the collection consists of dozens of music manuscripts by Williams, as well as miscellaneous items such as correspondence, programs, news clippings and photographs. Included are signed letters to Williams from Robert Russell Bennett and Virgil Thomson, three printed piano/vocal scores of musical comedies...
Dates:
1950s - 1960s
E. C. Boldridge Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0075
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mostly of recordings of radio broadcast programming from Kansas City that specialized in the jazz genre.
Dates:
1940 - 1997
Echo (Linda J. Ray) and Karin A. McAdams Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0199
Scope and Contents
The Echo (Linda J. Ray) and Karin A. McAdams Collection was a gift of Echo and McAdams in July 2011. Contained in the collection are two scrapbooks, featuring a wide array of Newspaper Clippings, Magazine Articles, Flyers, Photographs, and Programs dating from 1976-1983, and featuring LGBT rights and women’s issues. A few miscellaneous items are also featured, including two Gay Games medals and a necklace.The audiovisual materials in the collection contain audio and video...
Dates:
1976 - 2010
Ed Dix Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0275
Scope and Contents
The Ed Dix Collection was donated to the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri-Kansas City by Ed Dix. The manuscript collection is housed in the Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections, while the sound recordings are held in the Marr Sound Archives. The collection contains seven boxes and is divided into ten series, which includes scrapbooks, correspondence, contracts, photographs, manuscript scores. It provides an invaluable perspective on the life and work...
Dates:
1940 - 2014
Ed Roche Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0058
Scope and Contents
The collection contains many unique items recorded in the Kansas City area, including political speeches, musical performances, religious services, and advertisements for businesses and organizations. The Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kansas City Conservatory of Music are strongly represented with numerous recordings of each entity. Finally, the collection also holds some national radio programs, such as "The Guiding Light," "Hymns of All Churches," and "Michael Shayne."
Dates:
1935 - 1967
Edgar Snow Correspondence to Raymond J. Marcus
Collection
Identifier: KC-19-48
Scope and Contents
Richard J. Marcus had written to Edgar Snow after reading "Will China Become a Russian Satellite," published in the April 9, 1949 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, through a letter to one of the newspaper's editors. Edgar Snow wrote directly to Marcus in response, and that letter is included in this folder.
Dates:
1951 January 25
Edgar Snow Papers
Collection
Identifier: KC-19-1
Scope and Contents
The Edgar Snow Papers are divided into seven sections which reflect Edgar Snow's contribution to American journalism and Sino-American relations. In general, the papers are straightforward in their contents and are arranged to follow the course of Snow's life work: personal and business correspondence; diaries and notebooks; notes related to manuscripts and interviews; various drafts and revisions of both article and book manuscripts; clippings of published articles and book reviews;...
Dates:
1928-1982
Edward "Tookie" Cronenbold Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0126
Scope and Contents
Cronenbold was a member of the Texas Rangers, a western band that was active in the 1930s and 1940s and appeared on radio programs such as the Brush Creek Follies. The collection consists of recordings of the Texas Rangers and interviews with Cronenbold.
Dates:
1978 - 1981
Eleanor Babcock Papers
Collection
Identifier: KC-19-24
Scope and Contents
This material was donated by Eleanor Babcock, a correspondent of Edgar Snow's, and was removed from the Mary Clark Dimond Papers in July 1985.
This material contains correspondence from Edgar Snow to Eleanor Babcock and concerns Snow family genealogy, a portrait of Samuel Snow given to Edgar Snow by Babcock, and the autobiography Snow was writing at the time. Also included is a photograph of Snow with his family.
Dates:
1951-1957
Eliot S. Berkley Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0259
Scope and Contents
The Eliot S. Berkley Collection was gifted to LaBudde Special Collections in December 2014 by his son, Eliot A. Berkley, and daughter, Emily D. Berkley. The collection holds a varied selection of historical documents, including handwritten journals, indentures, lithographs, publications, and maps.
Dates:
1662 - 1981
Engravings & Sketchbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0110
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily consists of several hundred engravings, although other printmaking formats are represented including etchings, lithographs and photogravures. Subject matter includes: 18th and 19th century editions of the Arabian Nights, which had been collected by Mrs. Jones; portraits of known and unknown people, including over ten prints of Queen Victoria both as a woman and a child; Napoleonic, Romantic Orientalism, Religious, Egyptian and Miscellaneous. The collection also...
Dates:
1779 - 1913
Ernest Berlin Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0343
Scope and Contents
The Ernest Berlin Collection is comprised of documents and memorabilia from Berlin’s time as a college student in Kansas City, Missouri. The collection contains posters from productions with The Tophatters’ club of the University of Kansas City as well as an unfinished manuscript for a play. Materials including campus newspapers, playbills, and personal correspondence offer a glimpse into the history of theater at Kansas City University from 1938-1942.
Dates:
1937 - 2016
Ernest Daniels Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0045
Scope and Contents
The Ernest Daniels Collection was purchased by the Department of Special Collections from Brian Thurn Antiques of Kansas City in January 2006. The collection primarily consists of photographs, but also includes postcards, news clippings and other ephemera and memorabilia, related to Ernest Daniels, a Kansas City jazz drummer, vibraphonist and percussionist.
Dates:
1911 - 1979
Ernest H. Newcomb, Executive Secretary Papers
Series
Identifier: KC-1-1
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1919-1937, 1977, 1984, undated
Eugene Butler Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0195
Scope and Contents
The Eugene Butler Collection was gifted to LaBudde Special Collections and Marr Sound Archives, UMKC Miller Nichols Library, by Eugene Butler in May 2011. The collection contains hundreds of Butler’s published compositions, manuscripts, and audio recordings, as well as unpublished works and student works. Butler’s compositional output centers mainly around vocal and choral music, both sacred and secular, and is performed often in churches, schools, and concert settings all around the...
Dates:
1955 - 2018
Eugene G. Ramey, Sr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0096
Scope and Contents
The Eugene G. Ramey, Sr. Collection was gifted to the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1991 by his son Eugene G. Ramey, Jr. The manuscript collection is housed in the Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections and contains material related to the life and career of Ramey: correspondence, performance contracts, royalty statements, programs, membership and business cards, news clippings and articles(including by Ramey), address and appointment...
Dates:
1913 - 1989
Eunice Lea Kettering Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0018
Scope and Contents
The Eunice Lea Kettering Collection was donated to the University of Missouri-Kansas City by Eunice Lea Kettering. Housed in LaBudde Special Collections at the Miller Nichols Library, the collection is divided into four series: Manuscript Scores (Photocopy), Published Scores, Documents, and Sound Recordings. The first two series are classified into genre, and each work is listed alphabetically. There are over 80 manuscript score photocopies spanning the majority of Kettering’s professional...
Dates:
1935 - 1975
Evelyn “Evie” Akers Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MS-0177
Scope and Contents
The Evelyn “Evie” Akers Collection contains material that reflects the history of a variety of lesbian and gay social and amateur sports-oriented organizations. These organizations were active in the 1970s and 1980s, and included such sports as bowling, softball, horseshoes, darts, and shuffleboard. Ms. Akers was instrumental in founding the Kansas City Coed Sports Association in 1982, an effort to formally organize different types of amateur gay and lesbian sports teams. The scrapbook...
Dates:
1970 - 2010
Evie Quarles Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0249
Scope and Contents
The Evie Quarles Collection was gifted to the LaBudde Special Collections in May 2013. Inclusive dates are 1990-2008, with the bulk of the material ranging in date from 1997-2002. The collection includes programs, promotional material, miscellaneous ephemera, various blues publications,news clippings,and musical CDs, most of which are housed in the Marr Sound Archives. One jewel of this collection is Quarles’ book manuscript, Journey to the Blues. To illuminate that experience follows an...
Dates:
1988 - 2016
Felicia Londré Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0221
Scope and Contents
The Felicia Londré Collection was a gift of Felicia Londré in Fall 2012. Contained within is a large collection of scripts, in typed, printed, and published (photocopied) manuscript form, almost all in either English or in English translation. American, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish playwrights are represented, offering a wide range of styles and aesthetics. Also contained in the collection is an assortment of correspondence,...
Dates:
1910 - 2012
Fishing River Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0391
Scope and Contents
The Fishing River Association Collection is largely comprised of minutes and Baptist magazines.
Dates:
1824 - 1872
Florence and Richard DuPage Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0057
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts from Florence and Richard DuPage. Series notes contain more extensive information.
The audiovisual materials contain recordings of performances of Richard and Florence DuPage's compositions.
Dates:
1928 - 1994
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