LaBudde Special Collections | Collections: Communication Studies

Montage (clockwise from left): KMBC radio tower; KMBC/CBS microphone; KMBC studio; KMBC building; KMBC Brush Creek Follies program logo; KMBC Phenomenon program logo; and Arthur B. Church (center)
Arthur B. Church - KMBC Radio Collection

 

Advertising/Promotional Ephemera Collection
Assorted material related to various companies, products, and services, covering subject areas such as food, medicine and domestic life, 1800s-1900s

 

Fred Calland Collection
Ohio-born radio broadcaster/producer, record collector, educator, and noted opera expert, 1923-1999

 

Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection
Owner/operator of KMBC radio and television stations in Kansas City, and creative force behind several syndicated radio shows, 1920s-1950s

 

James F. Condell Collection
College professor of psychology, music scholar and performer, radio broadcaster/producer, and co-author of jazz pianist Jay McShann's unpublished autobiography, 1921-1998

 

Vic Damon Collection
Recording engineer and owner of Damon Recording Studios in Kansas City, 1933-1973

 

Richard Gray Film Studies Collection
Film-related material, including photographic publicity stills from various films, 1920s-1960s

 

Ted Malone Collection
Colorado-born radio and television personality, war reporter, storyteller, poetry reader and early broadcast “interpretationist,” working at one time for KMBC in Kansas City, 1908-1989

 

"Cactus" Charlie Menees Collection
Radio broadcaster/producer, critic and jazz educator from St. Louis, 1916-1993

 

Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection
Manager of the Uptown and Tower Theaters in Kansas City, and collector of photographs and other theater-related ephemera, 1875-1996

 

Bob Wills Tiffany Transcriptions Collection
Collection consisting of a set of Bob Wills Tiffany Transcriptions on 16" disc format as well as print material used to promote the music; these discs, produced for the Tiffany Music Company, captured live performances of western swing band Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys and were intended for distribution to radio stations for syndication consideration, 1946-1947

 

Wilder Wylie Collection
North Dakota-born radio and television producer and copywriter, 1922-1958

 

 


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