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Marr Sound Archives

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Marr Sound Archives
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Location800 E 51st Street, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Established1987
AffiliationMiller Nichols Library
Websitelibrary.umkc.edu/sca/marr/

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]

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