Kansas City
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Mutual Musicians Foundation Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0029
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)
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Dates:
1920s - 2000s
Patricia Huyett Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0193
Scope and Contents
The Patricia Huyett Collection was gifted to the LaBudde Special Collections in April 2011 by Pat Huyett. Huyett, an alumnus of and English professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, was a Renaissance woman in the truest sense of the word, and this collection reflects those broad identities. Among the jewels of this collection are her personal journals, which range in emotions from whimsical to compelling. As she documents the experience of a young girl’s journey into womanhood,...
Dates:
1953 - 2008
Patricia Stevens Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0204
Scope and Contents
The Patricia Stevens Collection was gifted to LaBudde Special Collections in November 2011 by Melissa Stevens, doyenne of the Patricia Stevens Modeling Agency. Inclusive dates are 1940s-2010, with the bulk in the 1975-2000 range. The collection includes correspondence, contracts, promotional material, instructional booklets, audio/visual tapes and an abundance of ephemera. Also included are several scrapbooks and photo books, highlighted by five colossal white scrapbooks documenting the...
Dates:
1948 - 2012
Paul Elias Taylor Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0049
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of oral history recordings of Kansas City blues musicians conducted by Paul Elias Taylor in 1999.
Dates:
1999
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
Pla-Mor Ballroom Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0065
Scope and Contents
Photos in UMKC Digital Special CollectionsThe collection consists of 65 black-and-white photographs related to the entertainment complex formerly at Linwood and Main in Kansas City, Missouri. Included are architectural renderings of the proposed development; interior and exterior shots; bandleaders and musicians, most notably Pla-Mor band director Chic Scoggin and his orchestra; as well as other...
Dates:
1920s - 1930s
Profiles in Diversity Oral Histories Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0125
Scope and Contents
The collection is made up of oral history recordings from UMKC history professor, Rebecca Davis', 5585 graduate history class. The majority of the oral histories were conducted by Davis' students in the Fall of 2016 and 2019. The recordings are of individuals who were activists and much of the content in the recordings relates to their activism. Activists topics include civil rights, LGBTQ, Native Americans, Latinx, Jews, labor, and health care.
Dates:
2015 - 2019
Regional Clubs and Organizations Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0072
Scope and Contents
The Regional Clubs & Organizations Collection is housed in the Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections. Developed over the years from various donations, the collection consists of assorted material – booklets, programs, news clippings, tickets, ribbons, etc. – related to various clubs and organizations, primarily in Kansas City. Material is contained in two boxes and is organized alphabetically by club/organization name. An Addendum section includes later additions to...
Dates:
1840 - 1980
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 W. Bolling Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0001
Scope and Contents
The Richard W. Bolling Collection was gifted to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library in 1992 from Nona Bolling, wife of the late U.S. Congressman from Missouri who served from 1949 to 1983. Housed in LaBudde Special Collections (audio/visual materials are located in the Marr Sound Archives), the collection is an invaluable primary resource in such areas as 20th-century history, political science, and particularly U.S. Congressional history; and has been consulted by a variety of researchers....
Dates:
1931 - 1997
Robert M. Snyder Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0161
Scope and Contents
The Snyder Collection began as the private collection of Robert M. Snyder, Jr., a prominent Kansas City businessman in the early part of the 20th century. The collection was purchased by William Volker after the death of Snyder in 1937. That same year, Volker anonymously donated the entire collection, then equaling some 14,000 titles, to the University of Kansas City (now...
Dates:
1672 - 1976
Rockhill Homes Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0269
Scope and Contents
The Rockhill Homes Association Collection was gifted to the LaBudde Special Collections by Jim Wanser on behalf of the association in February 2015. Included are general business reports; correspondence; Landmark Commission dockets; Nelson-Atkins zoning issues; reference materials and various publications. More material was gifted in Spring 2015 before initial processing, as well as addenda in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Addendum I contains additional general business and financial documents,...
Dates:
1910 - 2016
Rosemary Nevin/Sidney Tremble Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0133
Scope and Contents
The Rosemary Nevin/Sidney Tremble Collection consists of letters, telegrams, and other correspondence during World War II primarily between Rosemary Nevin and Sidney Tremble. The collection also includes correspondence from other Nevin and Tremble relatives and friends before and during the War as well as a small number of photographs and military ephemera.
Dates:
1921 - 1945
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
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
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
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
Universal Underwriters Group Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0185
Scope and Contents
The Universal Underwriters Group Collection was the gift of Pat Fischer at Zurich in North America (formerly Universal Underwriters Group). Contained in the collection are a wide variety of documents that represent both the history of the company as well as more day-to-day business matters. A great many magazine advertisements and brochures are here as well, along with some awards (certificates, plaques). The collection boasts a large collection of various newsletters and publications, as...
Dates:
1930 - 2008
Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0033
Scope and Contents
Photos in UMKC Digital Special CollectionsThe collection comprises 229 Victorian and vintage original photographic prints dating from the mid 19th Century to the early 20th Century. Formats include Cartes-de-Visite, Cabinet Cards and Tintype. The bulk of the collection represents studios in Missouri and Kansas, while the remaining span throughout the United States with a few in Europe. Within the...
Dates:
1850s - 1930s
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
William F. Trumbauer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0145
Scope and Contents
The Trumbauer Collection was donated to the UMKC Libraries in June 2006 by drummer Bill M. Trumbauer, son of trumpeter William (Bill) F. Trumbauer and grandson of jazz saxophonist Frank Trumbauer. Included were materials related to Frank and Bill F. An addendum of material was gifted in September 2010 by Bill M. and Mary Trumbauer, widow of Bill F. At that time the collection was separated into two distinct collections: Frank Trumbauer Collection and William F. Trumbauer Collection....
Dates:
1923 - 2010
