Performing and Visual Arts

Midwest Art History Society Records, 1973-2014 (K0591)
10 c.f.

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Organizational records of the regional art history society. Includes minutes, membership information, correspondence, financial records, planning materials for meetings and conferences, and newsletters

Missouri Art Education Association Records, 1945-2010s (CA5299)
8.5 cubic feet, 2 oversize volumes

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Records of the organization include correspondence, photographs, publications, scrapbooks, financial records, Show Me Art, color slides, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material.

Missouri Council on the Arts Records, 1962-1967 (C4292)
0.4 cubic feet (10 folders)

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Correspondence, reports, newspapers, clippings, special studies, projects, meeting minutes on the passage of a National Arts Council Bill and creation of the Missouri Council of the Arts.

Missouri Division of Tourism Photographs, 1945-1980 (P0452)
0.08 linear feet

Photos of Thomas Hart Benton and Missouri Historic Sites, monuments, markers, and memorials.

Missouri Extension Homemakers Association, Inc., Sacred Stones and Stained Glass Windows Project Records, 1977-1980 (C3723)
7.1 cubic feet (334 folders)

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Statewide documentation of local churches by county. Includes cultural arts reports, church histories, floor plans, architectural details, clippings, slides, photographs, and miscellany.

Missouri Fiber Artists Records, 1978-2018 (CA6512)
4.6 cubic feet, 13 computer discs, 1 DVD, 4.84 GB of digital files

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The records of the organization include newsletters, meeting minutes, conference materials, financial records, membership records, slides, photographs, and miscellaneous administrative material.

Missouri Heritage Quilt Project Papers, 1983-1985 (CA6675)
1.0 cubic foot

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Records compiled by Bettina Havig concerning the Missouri Heritage Quilt Project. Includes quilt data sheets, correspondence, promotional materials, and quilt slides.

Missouri Lives Oral History Project Records, 2014-2018 (C4249)
0.01 cubic feet (13 folder), 27 CDs, 1 DVD, 80.1 GBs

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The collection consists of interviews with a wide array of Missourians who have had an interesting personal history and life. The collection consists of digitally recorded interviews, transcripts, and ephemera.

Missouri River Cultural Conservancy Cooper-Wheeler Collection, 2005-2019 (C4603)
0.2 cubic feet (6 folders), 4.39 TB of digital files, 6 external hard drives, 778 MiniDV cassettes

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The collection contains audio and video recordings of musical, dance, and spoken word performances by local and regional artists documenting the Central Missouri River Region. Includes catalogs of the performances.

Missouri. New York World's Fair Commission Papers, 1963-1965 (C2604)
13.4 cubic feet

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Files of the pavilion manager, containing correspondence from construction to demolition of the Missouri pavilion. Also press releases, financial reports, promotional material, security reports, contracts, blueprints and photographs.

Monday Art Club, Poplar Bluff, Missouri Collection, 1911 (R1045)
(1 folder)

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This is the annual program booklet for the Monday Art Club, a woman's study club at Poplar Bluff in Butler County, Missouri. The booklet is undated, but 1911 has been written in what appears to be period ink and handwriting on the cover. The president of the club was Mrs. W.M. Barron and the secretary-treasurer was Mrs. E. Bacon.

Leone Levinson Morgenstern Memoir, 1989 (K1049)
0.1 c.f.

"I Remember" details the life of Morgenstern and her work in radio, television and the theater, and as a writer.

Charles A. Morgenthaler Papers, 1870-1981 (C3004)
3.4 cubic feet

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The papers of Charles A. Morgenthaler, a commercial artist and illustrator from Hallsville, Missouri, consist of photographs, sketches, scrapbooks, account books, and correspondence relating to his artwork. Family papers and photographs are also included in this collection.

I.G. Morrison Papers, 1940 (C2174)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of I.G. Morrison contain the paper "Thomas Hart Benton Murals, Missouri State Capitol: An Interpretative Lecture," 2 September 1940, and a positive photostat of letter to I.G. Morrison from Thomas Hart Benton, Chilmark, MA, 14 September 1940. Morrison presented description, history and symbolism of the murals. Benton defined the purpose of art and expressed approval of Morrison's paper.

Mountain Grove Choral Society Collection, 1936 (R1074)
(1 folder)

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This is a program for a performance of Handel's "The Messiah", presented by the Mountain Grove Choral Society at Mountain Grove in Wright County, Missouri, on Sunday evening, December 20, 1936. Maurice L. Cater was the conductor and Margaret Fuerst was the pianist.

Mountain Grove High School Collection, 1936 (R1076)
(1 folder)

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These are programs for a musical entertainment and the Senior Class play performed by students at Mountain Grove High School at Mountain Grove in Wright County, Missouri. Maurice Cater and Maude Williams were the faculty directors.

National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Missouri Papers, 1968-1974 (C3584)
0.16 cubic feet (8 folders)

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The papers of the National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of Missouri contain a working copy of EARLY PORTRAITS IN MISSOURI, PAINTED BEFORE 1860, which provides a detailed description of portraits existing in Missouri, arranged by location of the work. There is an index by artist, but none by portrait subject. The manuscript includes many works by George Caleb Bingham.

Clyde B. Neibarger Papers, 1920-1963 (K0681)
4 c.f.

Neibarger was at one time music editor Kansas City Star. Includes correspondence, clippings and typed manuscripts of Neibarger's reviews, and programs

Newburg High School Collection, 1921-1939 (R0629)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Newburg High School Collection contains a photograph of the Newburg High School girls’ basketball team from 1921, a program for a theatrical performance at the Lyric Theatre from 1930, and commencement programs from 1935 and 1939.

Cynthia Nold Photograph Collection, 1910, 1950 (P0254)
10 photographs

Photographs of Slater, MO, including images related to Steve McQueen. Also photo and document about television movie called A Family of Children by Tom Butterfield.

Rose O'Neill Papers, 1863-1990 (SP0026)
2 cubic feet (35 folders)

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The Rose O’Neill Papers consist of the personal correspondence of Rose O’Neill and her family members and friends.    

Marian Ohman Papers, 1929, 1970s (CA5134)
8 cubic feet, 1 16mm film, 1 video cassette, 25 oversize photographs

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Research files on Missouri courthouses and churches, including photographs. Also contains information about the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year; the Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney art collection; architects Morris Frederick Bell, Edmund J. Eckel, and Harvey Ellis; and African-American musician and composer, Major N. Clark Smith.

Our City/Ourselves: Portrait of a Community"" Records, 1998 (K1116)
2.5 c.f.

Photocopies of Kansas City family photographs for a collective community work of art exhibit, "Our City/Ourselves: Portrait of Community". Includes scrapbooks, photographs, and other memorabilia, and public comments were once found in the exhibit at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design. Most all of the photocopied images are unidentified.

Ozark All-Stars Photograph Collection, 1960s (R1477)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder, 1 photograph)

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The Ozark All-Stars Photograph Collection contains the autographed photograph of the Ozark All-Stars, performers from the Country Music Hall at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.

Ozark Artists' Guild Collection, 1952-1962 (R0862)
(1 folder)

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These are miscellaneous papers concerning the Ozark Artists' guild at Joplin in Jasper County, Missouri. Included are program schedules, announcements, brochures, and other printed matter, especially concerning the Guild's headquarters and gallery, the Spiva Art Center.

Ozark Summit Exposition Collection, 1947 (R0889)
(1 folder)

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This is a booklet for the Ozark Summit Exposition, which was held at Mansfield in Wright County, Missouri, from July 30 to August 2, 1947.

Lucille Papendick Collection, 1912-1967 (S0015)
0.25 cubic foot, 8 folders

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The Lucille Papendick promoted art and cultural education programs throughout her life and after her death through a fund she set up to support cultural, arts, and education organizations and the community. The collection contains programs from concerts, plays, recitals, and dance programs in St. Louis by visiting performers at theatres throughout the St. Louis area.

Della Fleming Parker Papers, 1905-1965 (K0929)
0.2 c.f.

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Playbills and programs (some with autographs) from Kansas City theaters and musical venues. Also is a World War II ration book and newspaper clippings.

Lester Parker Photograph Collection, 1915-1923 (P0022)
103 photographs

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A series of photos showing the Capitol building under construction with views of the artists working on the murals, decorations, etc. Lester Parker used these photographs as reference materials while creating his paintings of the capital building.

Shirley Passman Papers, 1944, 1981 (K1302)
0.2 c.f.

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John Douglas Patrick Collection, 1961-1989 (K0843)
0.2 c.f.

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The collection contains articles, press releases, and photographs regarding the exhibition of Patrick's most famous painting Brutality, at the Broadway Valentine Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Larry and Margaret Peeno Papers, 1959-2016 (S0306)
9.5 cubic feet

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The Maggie and Larry Peeno Papers contain correspondence, meeting minutes, curriculum guides, newsletters, reports, surveys, photographs, and VHS tapes documenting the Peeno’s 50+ year career in art education in Missouri and the United States. Items of interest include curricula developed by Maggie Peeno for the University City School District, including the “We Live in University City” booklet.

People's Art Center Records, 1942-1963 (S0612)
0.4 cubic foot, 11 folders

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Founded in 1942 with the help of a Works Progress Administration grant, the People's Art Center was the first integrated community arts center in St. Louis. The collection contains a history of the center, articles of incorporation, bylaws, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and reports on leadership dispute in 1963.

Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City Records, 1965-1983 (K1124)
0.5 c.f.

The Foundations purpose was to encourage interest in and appreciation for the performing arts, to hold an annual performing arts festival, and to promoted a new performing arts center. Includes correspondence, contracts, printed materials, programs, and clippings concerning productions mounted by the Foundation. Also the 1968 MRI study, "The Performing Arts in Kansas City."

Eva Lena Anson Phillips Collection, 1921-1963 (C4651)
0.25 (5 folders)

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Programs and announcements from concerts, recitals, plays, and graduation ceremonies from the 1920s and 1940s. Also includes church newsletters from the 1960s.

Gladys K. Pihlblad Papers, 1906-1981 (C3843)
2.4 cubic feet

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Papers of Gladys K. Pihlblad, Director of Student Affairs for Women at the University of Missouri from 1952 to 1973. Her papers cover such subjects as women, blacks, homosexuals, student unrest, University organizations, and University events. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and reports.

Gladys K. Pihlblad Papers, 1959-1981 (CA5754)
0.2 cubic feet

Addition of letters of Missouri artist Fred Shane. See also C3843.

Braxton Pollard Collection, 1930-1945 (P1014)

Photographs of St. Louis, including the MUNY and St. Louis Art Museum, and a portrait of Sally Rand.

William Preston Photograph Collection, 1910-1925, no date (P0173)
30 photographs

30 images, largely 8x10 or smaller, of Sally Rand, as a performer, actress and in her personal life as child in Hickory County, Missouri. Also includes a scrapbook on Harry S Truman.

Bob Priddy Collection, 1973-2008 (CA6086)
1.1 cubic feet, 99 audio cassettes, 26 audio tapes, 1 CD

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The collection contains materials concerning the Jefferson City American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. Also included are audio recordings from bust unveilings in the Hall of Famous Missourians; recordings and interviews concerning the Thomas Hart Benton’s mural and the Missouri State Capitol; programs from Priddy’s radio show “Missouri Moments” produced for Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri; and miscellaneous political recordings.

RadiOzark Record Collection, 1950s-1960s (SP0071)
10 cubic feet (427 audio discs)

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The RadiOzark Record Collection contains 427 phonograph records that were produced and transcribed by RadiOzark Enterprises, Inc., located in Springfield, Missouri. Program titles include Strangest of All with Frank Edwards, The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, The Bill Ring Show, The Red Foley Show, “Shorty Thompson” in Saddle-Rockin’ Rhythm, “Shorty, Sue, & Sally” Saddle-Rockin’ Rhythm, and The Smiley Burnette Show.

Ragtag Cinema Café (Columbia, Mo.) Collection, 1977-2002 (CA6023)
2.3 cubic feet, 55 oversize items

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Collection of film catalogs, publications, promotional material, posters, and advertisements for film showings and other events at the theater.

Charles Monroe Reeves Papers, 1892-1970 (C3356)
2.4 cubic feet

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Papers of a St. Louis journalist and organizer of the 1904 World's Fair. First section includes items from Reeves' early journalistic career. Bulk of papers in second section concerns Louisiana Purchase Exposition, related materials, and photographs.

William Rensing Papers, 1945-1986 (K0523)
0.5 c.f.

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Photographs, newspaper articles concerning the works of the German-born, Kansas City area sculptor.

Charley Riggs Portrait, no date (P0420)
1 photograph

Photo of Charley Riggs artist.

Mrs. W.C. Roberts Collection, 1850-1877, no date (P0202)
4 photographs

Copy photos of George Caleb Bingham, ca. 1877, Eliza Thomas Bingham, and Rollins Bingham.

Edward L. Roemer Papers, 1886-1938 (K0698)
2 c.f.

Catalogs and records of Roemer, a fine cabinetmaker in Kansas City, MO. Includes drawings, sketches, and patterns for furniture

James S. Rollins Papers, 1546, 1809-1968 (C1026)
3.3 cubic feet (222 folders, 1 volume); also available on 11 rolls of microfilm

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The papers of James S. Rollins, a Boone County, Missouri, lawyer, politician, businessman, and curator of University of Missouri include correspondence with family, business and political associates, and George Caleb Bingham and other friends. The papers cover state, national, and Whig party politics from 1830 through the 1880s, the Civil War in Missouri, internal improvements and the North Missouri Railroad, and education at University of Missouri.

Zygmund Przemyslaw Rondomanski Papers, 1933-1988 (K0261)
1.25 c.f.

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Original musical scores, compositions, and arrangements for the cello and other instruments by Rondomanski, a composer and music teacher. Also included is a scrapbook of letters, clippings, programs, and photographs relating to Rondomanski's life and career and recordings of his work.

Gertrude Rose and Jay Landesman Collection, 1959-1967 (S0617)
0.01 cubic foot

This collection consists of playbills, programs, and newspaper clippings on Gaslight Square theater/cabaret owner Jay Landesman, collected by his sister, Gertrude Rose.