Monthly Archives: March 2015

Vinyl to World Wide Web

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By Kelly Hangauer

I am currently in transition.

Now that the archiving process of the John B. Gage collection is complete, and digital audio files have been made and stored on Missouri University’s server, it is time to move on to a new phase of the project—the public history phase.

logo-horizontal-288pxUsing a free and open source site called Omeka, I will be showcasing the John B. Gage collection online. Omeka is a product of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and it encourages historians, scholars, archivists, and librarians to publish their work with ease. The product and the ideas behind it are pretty incredible, and I am excited to discover its possibilities!

My current task, and what I have been working on for the past week or so, is to pinpoint the sound clips that will be the most intriguing and representative of the collection. Considering the hours upon hours of material, this is a bit overwhelming. It is slowly coming together, though, and I hope to be uploading material onto the Omeka site very soon.

Image is from the L.P. Cookingham Photo Collection at the LaBudde Special Collections

“Aerial View of City from City Hall, 1942” – Image is from the L.P. Cookingham Photo Collection at LaBudde Special Collections

In addition to the original collection, I will be supplementing the material with pertinent sound bytes from the Arthur B. Church KMBC collection, as well as including images taken mostly from the LaBudde Special Collections at UMKC. This project should give researchers a good taste of what audio they can find on John B. Gage, while also giving casual explorers an interesting insight into Kansas City history.

 

 

Summer 2015 Internships at the American Truck Historical Society

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The American Truck Historical Society is seeking qualified interns for openings in the summer of 2015. The archival repository for the nation’s freighting industry, the ATHS is seeking applications for:

  • Collections and Archives
  • Journalism and Social Media
  • Information Technology

Complete information, including application instructions, can be found on the ATHS’s career’s page. Students wishing to take these internships for college credit should follow the instructions on the How to Apply page.

Multiple Summer 2015 Internships at the Missouri History Museum

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The Missouri History Museum has multiple unpaid internship opportunities available for the summer of 2015. Opportunities include:

  • Audiovisual Internship with the Events and Community Education Department
  • Environmental History Internship with the Research and Education Department
  • Environmental Photo Archive Internship with the Research and Education Department
  • Photo-processing internships with the Photos and Prints Department
  • Object Cataloging Internship with the Collections Department
  • Reservation Office Internships with the Ticketing and Events Department

Information on all of these internships, including application instructions, can be found at the Missouri History Museum’s website here.

Arthur B. Church

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By Kelly Hangauer

Oh man. For those researchers out there who have never come across the KMBC collection at the Marr Sound Archive, you need to check it out!! The Arthur B. Church KMBC radio collection offers an eclectic mix of local and national news, music shows, interviews, Kansas City events, political advertisements, local business advertisements, and serial programs from roughly 1930 to the 1950s. Between 2011-2012, the Marr Sound Archive digitized and documented 445 hours of material with the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. You can read more about it here.

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Ruth Hussey

I have been digging into the KMBC collection in order to find more information on John B. Gage, the mayor of Kansas City from 1940-1946. Due to the hard work that went into archiving this collection, there is ample information to aid researchers in their work.  Not only have I been able to discover information on John Gage, but I have also come across many other surprises. For example, I have included here a sound clip from the 1941 American Royal in Kansas City. In this recording, one finds an interesting crossroads between popular culture and local politics, as interviewer Larry Clark lets city manager L.P. Cookingham and actress Ruth Hussey speak to one another.

 

Those interested in archiving can access the finding aid for this recording here.

The Arthur B. Church KMBC radio collection is invaluable for those interested in the history of radio broadcast and Kansas City, and contains a plethora of subjects from which to conduct interesting research.