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Title: An Interview With Thelma L. Hollowell
Description: Mrs. Thelma Hollowell was born in Lawrence, Kansas on July 4, 1909. She graduated high school at Lawrence and was a 1929 Home Economics graduate from the University of Kansas. At the time of the interview, she was married to retired Army officer Harry H. Hollowell, a member of the 10th Cavalry, Buffalo Soldiers. In the interview she recounts her ancestry starting with her grandparents, military life, and incidents of racial discrimination that she remembers.

Interviewer: Edward Scott. Interview recorded: February 4, 1976 (at Leavenworth, Kansas).
Date: 1976-02-04
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Q & A with Pat Methany
Description: Interview with Pat Metheny, in which he discusses his early career in Kansas City, and whether or not the heyday of Kansas City jazz will ever be recaptured.
Date: 1995-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: "Business Builds Jobs"
Description: Interview with Kansas City Mayor Sly James focusing on "business retention, an incentives 'Border War' with Kansas and other pressing matters of interest to area businesspeople."
Date: 2011-06-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Blanche Carstenson
Description: Program converted to DVD from an earlier media type. Local artist Blanche Carstenson talks about her work and her life as an artist. She is working on a fabric piece during the interview. Taped in 1982 and directed by Dory DeAngelo for the Kansas City Public Library and shown on cable television's community channel.
Date: 1982
Object Type: Audio Visual

Title: An Interview With Arthur Brand
Description: Arthur Brand was selected to be interviewed as a representative of the Jewish community in Kansas City. He was born November 4, 1922, in New York City. His family moved to Kansas City when he was five and were involved with the clothing industry. He was involved with the Hebrew Academy which later became the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy and the UMKC Danciger Judaic Studies Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Interviewers: William Ryan and Genevieve Robinson. Interview recorded August 3, 1988. Transcriber: Karen Waldron.
Date: 1988-08-03
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: SC69-2 Black Archives of Mid-America Oral History Collection Finding Aid
Description: The collection is comprised of 97 audiocassettes containing interviews of 56 people, largely from Kansas City's African American community. Subjects interviewed primarily include political, business, religious, and community leaders. The interviews center on the history of the African American community in the Kansas City metropolitan area and focus on the individual's role in and perception of that history. The collection also includes the paperwork that accompanied the project, such as interviewer evaluations and contracts for both staff and interviewees.
Date: 1975/1976
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Marion Sloan Russell Interview, 1933
Description: Text of a 1933 WPA interview with Marion (Marian) Sloan Russell, whose travels on the Santa Fe Trail were immortalized in the book Land of Enchantment (University of New Mexico Press, 1954, MVSC 917.8 R965z).
Date: 2005-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Q & A with Karrin Allyson
Description: Interview with Kansas City jazz chanteuse Karrin Allyson. Allyson discusses her 2004 release Wild for You.
Date: 2004-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: An Interview With Samuel U. Rodgers
Description: Samuel U. Rodgers was chosen for the project as a representative of the African American community and as a physician concerned with health care for the poor in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born in Alabama, son of a physician, and died in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 19, 1999. Dr. Rodgers started the Wayne Miner Health Clinic which was later named the Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center in his honor. According to his obituary "he came to Kansas City to intern at General Hospital Number Two--the black facility in what was then a segregated health-care system. He was one of the first African American doctors to acquire a speciality [obstetrics], and helped begin Kansas City's first all-black group medical practice in 1950" (The Kansas City Star, December 21, 1999, A1:6,). Interviewer: Genevieve Robinson; recorded August 2 and August 8, 1988.
Date: 1988-08-02
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: Happy Returns from the Tax Man
Description: Short interview with businessman and philanthropist Henry Bloch, co-founder of H&R Block. He answers questions about the biography written by his son, Thomas Bloch, titled "Many Happy Returns: The Story of Henry Bloch, America's Tax Man."
Date: 2011-02-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: An Interview With Rosalie Strada
Description: Rosalie Strada was chosen for the project as a representative of the Italian community in the Northeast area of Kansas City, Missouri. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1922 at 1104 East Fourth Street. In the interview she describes this area of the city and how she has seen it change over the years. She talks about the Italian Mission Church and Dr. Bisceglia who was still living at the time of the interview as well as the schools she attended (Karnes and Northeast High School), neighborhood, etc. Interviewer: Genevieve Robinson; recorded July 11, 1988 and August 1, 1988. Typescript (75 p.) available. Transcriber: Karen Waldron.
Date: 1988-07-11
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: An Interview With Geneva Mingrone
Description: Geneva Mingrone was chosen for the project as a representative of the Italian community in the northeast area of Kansas City, Missouri. According to her obituary found with the collection, she was born in Kansas City on June 11, 1906, and died here August 16, 2007. She lived at both 5th and Harrison and at 5th and Cherry. After her retirement, she spent over 36 years volunteering at the Don Bosco Senior Center and was active in her Catholic Church parish.Interviewer: Genevieve Robinson. Interview recorded July 11, 1988. Transcriber: Karen Waldron.
Date: 1988-07-11
Object Type: Sound Recording

Title: SC69-3 Kansas City Regional Oral History Project Finding Aid
Description: The five oral histories in this collection were created as a pilot project which was to serve as the model for a larger Kansas City Regional History Project. The subjects of the oral histories were selected as representatives of either ethnic minorities or immigrant groups in Kansas City. Those interviewed include: Arthur Brand, Dr. Samuel U. Rodgers, Howard Sachs, Geneva Mingrone, and Rosalie Strada.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: SC69-1 Hispanic Oral History Collection Finding Aid
Description: The collection is comprised of 65 audiocassettes (61 CDs) with interviews of 59 people from Kansas City's Hispanic community. Persons interviewed cover a substantial cross-section of the population, ranging from state legislators to persons who were unemployed at the time of the interview.
Date: 1977/1982
Object Type: Finding Aid

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