University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections

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Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Political Collection, MS 75 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Scope and Content …………………………………………………………… 2

Series Notes ……………………………………………………………………. 2

Container List ……………………………………………………………………. 3

Series I: Presidential ……………………………………………………. 3

Series II: Regional Politics ……………………………………………. 4

Series III: Miscellaneous ……………………………………………. 4

Series IV: Broadsides ……………………………………………………. 4

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Political Collection is a sub-collection of the Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Collection, the foundation collection of the Department of Special Collections. The Broadside Collection provides focused resources related to politics, compiled from material that Snyder collected in this area.

SERIES NOTES

SERIES I: PRESIDENTIAL

This series is contained in Box 1, folders 1-5. It consists of material related to Presidents and Presidential candidates broken down into the following sub-series: (A) Democrats; (B) Republicans; (C) Miscellaneous Parties and Platforms; (D) Funeral Ephemera.

SERIES II: REGIONAL POLITICS

This series is contained in Box 1, folders 6-7. It consists of material related to Missouri and Kansas Politics broken down into the following sub-series: (A) Kansas; (B) Missouri/Local.

SERIES III: MISCELLANEOUS

This series is contained in Box 8-9. It consists of miscellaneous political material.

SERIES IV: BROADSIDES

This series consists of political broadsides. These items are located in the Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Broadside Collection, MS 63, Box 1, Folder 6

CONTAINER LIST

SERIES I: PRESIDENTIAL

A: Democrats

Box Folder Description

1 1 Carter, Jimmy: Inaugural Ceremonies

Cleveland, Grover: Campaign Ribbons

Johnson, Andrew: Impeachment Tickets

McCarthy, Eugene: Campaign Buttons; Ribbons

Ritchie, Albert: Campaign Ribbon

Roosevelt, Franklin: Misc. Campaign; New Deal literature

Truman, Harry S.: Inaugural Gala, 1949; Birthday Celebration, 1960

Wilson, Woodrow: Centennial Poster

B: Republicans

1 2 Garfield, James A.: Republican Ticket

Grant, Ulysses S.: Republican Ticket

Hoover, Herbert: Everybody’s Political Primer [humor]

McKinley, William: Campaign Ribbon

Nixon, Richard M.: Misc. Inaugural Ephemera

3 Republican National Convention: Ephemera

C: Misc Parties/Platforms

1 4 Democratic/Republican: James Monroe, “Expenditures Building Fortifications 1816-1819 Message from the President”

National Prohibition Platform: Broadside

Theocratic Party: Tomlinson/Rogers

Whig Party: Taylor, Zachary; Harrison, William Henry

D. Funeral Ephemera

1 5 Lincoln, Abraham: Badge

Garfield, James A.: Memorial Service Card

Roosevelt, Theodore: Memorial Service Program, Kansas City

Kennedy, John F.: Thank you card from widow to Betty Doolittle

SERIES II: REGIONAL POLITICS

A: Kansas Politics

1 6 Misc. Broadsides/Ephemera: David Christie; John Martin; Maj. J.K. Hudson; Legislative Address to the voters of Kansas; Letter to President Lincoln recommending H. Miles Moore for District Attorney, 1863, Kansas; Republican Race, 1936

B: Missouri/Local Politics

1 7 Prohibition; Unions; Democratic Convention Tickets; Kemper, Crosby; Anti-Mafia Ticket; Gov. Hogg; Radicals of Ray County; Letter from Hubert Humphrey to local citizen; Inaugural Ceremonies, Missouri, 1941 and 1945

SERIES III: MISCELLANEOUS

1 8 Signatures; James Madison/Thomas Jefferson; Receipt to Martin Van Buren

9 Buttons; Ribbons; misc. ephemera: election booklets; Centennial Certificate; broadside, etc.

“President's Week, World's Fair,” President Theodore Roosevelt [Located in oversized drawer 18]

SERIES IV: BROADSIDES

[The following political broadsides are located in the Robert M. Snyder, Jr. Broadside Collection, MS 63, Box 1, Folder 6]

“To the People of Western Virginia…”; “An Act to contain in force, a part of an act respecting the compensation to the officers and mariners of the revenue cutters,” 1798; “An Act to amend the act entitled ‘An Act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels’”