Media and Broadcasting
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
KCUR Radio Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0027
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of KCUR radio broadcast on analog and digital tapes, dating from 1953 to 2005, as well as CD-Rs and digital files, dating from 2002 to 2017. The materials document the social, cultural, and political history of Kansas City and the Midwest, providing researchers with context and insights into midwesterners’ viewpoints on national issues. The broadcasts contain interviews, recorded events, and news coverage on issues of race, abortion, education standards, crime,...
Dates:
1953 - 2017
Lucile H. Bluford Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0219
Scope and Contents
The Lucile H. Bluford Collection was transferred from a local regional historical society in 2010. Although only two linear feet in volume, it is rich in potential for anyone researching not only Lucile Bluford herself, but subjects such as Kansas City social issues, as well as Civil Rights. Bluford’s numerous community activities are documented in several studies and reports. Utilizing her status as owner and editor of the Kansas City Call, she reached out to fight social injustice for the...
Dates:
1940 - 1982
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
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
Paul Jenkins Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0092
Scope and Contents
The collection contains lacquer disc recordings of Creston family recordings, events in Kansas City, radio broadcast recordings, advertisements for radio broadcast, and copies of classical and popular music.
Dates:
1931 - 1969
Raymond Scott Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0010
Scope and Contents
The Raymond Scott Collection was donated to the University of Missouri-Kansas City by Mitzi Scott, Raymond Scott’s widow, in 1993.Housed in LaBudde Special Collections, the original manuscript collection, which encompasses much of Scott’s career until 1980, is organized into 11 series: manuscript music scores; published music; correspondence; news clippings; journals, diaries and scrapbooks; production notes; personal; engineering and inventions; miscellaneous; oversized...
Dates:
1932 - 2009
Richard Gray Film Studies Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0134
Scope and Contents
The Richard Gray Film Studies Collection was purchased from Gray by the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1973. Housed in the LaBudde Special Collections at the Miller Nichols Library, the collection consists of photographic publicity stills from various films from the 1920s-1960s.Included are:An American in Paris, Breaking the Sound Barrier, Brief Encounter, The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T, Great Expectations, Hamlet, Helen of Troy, The Innocents, Les Liasons Dangereuses, The Little...
Dates:
undated
Richard & Mary Jane Miller (KWKI Radio) Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0274
Scope and Contents
The Richard and Mary Jane Miller (KWKI Radio) Collection was transferred in May 2015 to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library from Frank Absher, executive director of the St. Louis Media History Foundation. The bulk of the collection consists of company memos related to KWKI 93.3 FM Kansas City during its stint as a soul music radio station from 1971-73. Most of the memos originate from Richard J. Miller, president of the St. Louis-based parent company Communications Fund Inc. (CFI), which at the...
Dates:
1971 - 1974
Richard Pirodsky Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0036
Scope and Contents
Radio producer and media manager, Richard Pirodsky donated his collection of radio broadcasts to the Marr Sound Archives in August 2012. The collection includes open reel audiotapes and cassettes that Pirodsky collected and produced.
Dates:
1927 - 1994
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
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
Vic Damon Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0060
Scope and Contents
The Vic Damon Collection was donated to LaBudde Special Collections by his son, George Damon, in the 1990s.The manuscripts collection consists of the handwritten logbook kept by Damon documenting recording sessions produced by his Kansas City studio; related correspondence and notes; 17 photographs; and a trophy awarded by Cash Box for the success of the 1948 song My Happiness, produced by Damon. Mounted captions used for a Vic Damon exhibit previously on display in the UMKC Miller...
Dates:
1939 - mid 1990s
Walt Bodine Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0210
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts collection dates from 1950 to 2012. Having been in the broadcasting business for seven decades, Walt Bodine produced a wealth of resources for those researchers interested in the study of communications or in the history of Kansas City, Missouri. Within the collection there are radio scripts, correspondence, research tools, numerous awards, book manuscripts, ephemera, memorabilia, news clippings and photographs. The radio scripts range in date from 1957-2010, representing...
Dates:
1933 - 2015
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 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
