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The Lucerna Undergraduate Research Journal collection contains volumes of the UMKC Honors Program's interdisciplinary research journal. It has published 152 undergraduates' scholarship since the Honors Program introduced the journal in 2006. The collection includes volumes dated between 2009 to the present.

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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.

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This series contains course catalogs for what is now the School of Dentistry prior to its merger with the University of Kansas City in 1941. Catalogs include ones for the Western Dental College for 1890-1891 through 1918-1919; the Kansas City Dental College for 1894 through 1917-1918; the Kansas City Western Dental College for 1919-1920 through 1940; and the University of Kansas City School of Dentistry for 1941-1959 and 1978-1979.

Scope and Contents This record group sub-series includes course catalogs and bulletins for the University of Kansas City and the University of Missouri--Kansas City School of Law. The 1930-1937 catalogs date prior to the School of Law's merger with the University of Kansas City in 1938. The 1956-1958 catalogs date prior to when the University of Kansas City merged with the University of Missouri System in 1963. UMKC alternated between publishing School of Law information and course listings in the General...

Scope and Contents This record group sub-series contains commencement programs dating prior to the School of Law's merger with the University of Kansas City, 1901-1916, 1921.Please note that historical materials are available to view via the UMKC School of Law Digital Collection at dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/umkclaw/. There may be overlap between materials in this record group series and the...

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This collection consists of student published yearbooks for the Kansas City School of Law. All of the yearbooks in this collection were published prior to the K.C. School of Law's merger with the University of Kansas City in 1938. The 1912-1913, 1915 and 1922 yearbooks are restricted for use due to physical condition. Contact UMKC University Archives for assistance.

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This is a collection of the University of Missouri - Kansas City's School of Medicine yearbooks from 1977-1984. Most of the books in this collection were once owned by Dr. Edmunds Grey Dimond Jr.

Scope and Contents This series contains course catalogs for the Kansas City College of Pharmacy and Natural Sciences dated between 1908 and 1942, prior to its merger with the University of Kansas City and it becoming what is now the School of Pharmacy. The series also includes course catalogs for the School of Pharmacy dated between 1959 and 1961. Of note are course catalogs for when the Kansas City College of Pharmacy and Natural Sciences was affiliated with Lincoln and Lee University between 1927 and...

Scope and Contents This collection contains yearbooks published by the Kansas City College of Pharmacy and the University of Missouri - Kansas City's School of Pharmacy. The Kansas City College of Pharmacy merged with the University of Kansas City in 1943, forming the School of Pharmacy. The collection is divided into two series: yearbooks that are stored onsite at Miller Nichols Library, and yearbooks that are stored offsite at the University of Missouri System’s Records Management Center in...

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...

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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.

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This collection contains yearbooks from the Kansas City Conservatory of Music dating from before and after the institution merged with the University of Kansas City. Most of the yearbooks date from before the merge.

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The UMKC University Archives Artifacts, Ephemera, and Memorabilia is an artificial collection of paper materials and objects that were originally produced to only have short-term use. However, they have since been kept at the University Archives as historical artifacts and memorabilia because they have historical research interest. This collection includes news articles about the University of Kansas City and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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The UMKC University Archives Subject Files is an artificial collection of documents related to the University of Missouri-Kansas City's history and operations. The files contain articles, internal university documents, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to university offices, departments, centers, and institutes; academic programs; university personnel; student activities; and major campus events.

Scope and Contents This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...

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The Zine Collection was established with the first donation to LaBudde Special Collections in December 2015, after the Kansas City Zine Convention 2015. Comprising multiple individually-named series, the Zine Collection contains hundreds of magazines representing local and national underground/DIY culture, dating 1970s-2020s.