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39°2′6.1″N 94°34′35.5″W / 39.035028°N 94.576528°W | |
Location | 800 E 51st Street, Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
Established | 1987 |
Affiliation | Miller Nichols Library |
Website |
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The Marr Sound Archives is an audiovisual archive, a part of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Miller Nichols Library. [1]
The collection includes extensive holdings of jazz, blues, country and popular music; historic voices and authors reading their own works; vintage radio programs; classical and opera. The Marr holds a wide range of historic formats including LPs, 78s, 45s, cylinders, transcription discs, instantaneous-cut discs and open-reel tapes. The archives maintain sound recordings for a number of archival for collections shared with LaBudde Special Collections. [1] [2]
The archives were created from a donation of 42,000 items by Olga and Gaylor Marr in 1987. [1] As of 2023, the archives hold over 400,000 recordings. [3]