| Marr Sound Archives | |
| Creation: | 1987 |
| Country: | United States |
| Address: | 800 E 51st Street |
| City: | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Coordinates: | 39.035°N -94.5765°W |
| Affiliation: | Miller Nichols Library |
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.[2]
The archives were created from a donation of 42,000 items by Olga and Gaylor Marr in 1987. As of 2023, the archives hold over 400,000 recordings.[3]