Description
This collection relates to KMBC radio and television stations in Kansas City and its owner and operator, Arthur B. Church, dating primarily between the 1920s and the early 1950s.
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Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection
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Mark Norman Smith portrait
Waist-up portrait of KMBC Director of Research Department Mark Norman Smith in light suit, white shirt, and flower tie. Smith sitting at slight angle and looking into camera. Black background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-099.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Mark Norman Smith portrait
Chest-up portrait of KMBC Director of Research Department Mark Norman Smith in dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie. Smith sitting at slight angle and looking above camera. Light background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-100.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Republican National Convention
Speaker, media personnel, and crowd at 1936 Republican National Convention. Speaker at raised podium in middle-ground and seated crowd in background. Media personnel seated in tables in front of podium. Radio equipment including headphones visible on tables and in use by personnel. Group of photographers standing on tables near podium. Arrows on photo identifying Mark Smith and Chick Allison.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-101.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Arthur B. Church, Mark Norman Smith, and three unidentified men sitting around desk
Arthur B. Church, Mark Norman Smith, and three unidentified men sitting around desk. Smith on far left; Church at middle right. All men wearing medium colored suits. Newspapers scattered on desk. Church holding pen and notepad. Notebooks in front of Smith. Bookcase with magazine, photo frame, and small statue against left wall. Large window with blinds on far wall.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-102.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Charles F. Church, Jr. on train steps with suitcase
KMBC's director of education, Charles F. Church, Jr. standing on passenger train car steps in Portland, Oregon. Church holding large suitcase and smaller briefcase and is wearing medium toned suit with white shirt, striped tie, and white Panama hat. Church facing camera and smiling with back to train door.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-103.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Mark Norman Smith in front of bookcase
Mark Norman Smith standing in front large bookcase with doors holding one book in right hand and removing book from shelf with left hand. Smith wearing light colored suit and facing bookcase at 90-degree angle away from camera. Radio-locator coverage map on left bookcase door. "Radio Daily" and "Radio Audience Measurement" books on lower shelf. Open door visible in background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-104.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Texas Rangers five-member group portrait
The Texas Rangers five-member portrait with instruments. All wearing matching white hats, four wearing matching plaid button up shirts with one wearing dark button up. Clockwise from top left: unidentified man with guitar, unidentified man with double bass, unidentified man with violin, unidentified man without an instrument, and Bob Crawford sitting on tree stump in middle above accordion.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-105.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Texas Rangers five-member group portrait
Promotional portrait of The Texas Rangers, Bob Crawford in the center. Five members, facing forward, smiling, holding instruments, and standing on tile floor with one foot forward on raised platform. All are wearing suits with ties, and white cowboy hats.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-106.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Texas Rangers five-member group portrait
Promotional portrait of The Texas Rangers. Five members, facing forward, smiling, holding instruments. Four stand in the back behind the accordion player, who is seated. KMBC microphone is placed in front of the guitarist. All are wearing suits with ties, and white cowboy hats.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-107.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Texas Rangers eight-member group portrait
The Texas Rangers eight-member (all white men) group portrait with instruments. All wearing matching dark toned suits, white cowboy hats, and dark cowboy boots. All facing camera and smiling. Left to right, back row: unidentified man with accordion, unidentified man with violin, unidentified man with double bass, Herb Kratoska with guitar. Front row: four men squatting without instruments. Bob Crawford second from right.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-108.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Texas Rangers on television studio set
Eight Texas Rangers around table on television studio set. Set on right of photo. Four men seated on benches at round table. Four men standing with violin, guitar, accordion, and double bass. Wood burning stove on left of set. Camera operator wearing headphones behind RCA Television camera labeled "KTTV Times CBS" on left of photo. Microphone and lighting visible at top of photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-109.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Arthur B. Church with Tex Owens and The Texas Rangers
Nine-member Texas Rangers, including Tex Owens (second from right), in studio with Arthur B. Church (right) and unidentified man. Band members holding various instruments including violin, guitars, accordion, and double bass. All wearing cowboy hats and unmatched costumes. Church standing on right holding papers. Unidentified man with papers standing in center behind CBS microphone. Clock on left wall. Studio windows on right wall. Organ against right wall. Lighting partially visible in upper right corner.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-110.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Happy Hollow Humdingers promotional photo
Happy Hollow Humdingers promotional photo. Four men in matching black suits and white shirts. All standing at 45 degree angle to camera and smiling. L to r: Slim, Smoke, Hank, Pete. Pete holding sheet music. KMBC microphone on right. Light background.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-111.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Arthur B. Church Christmas 1943 Photo Album
Tan colored photo album cover with "Arthur B. Church / Christmas 1943" inscribed on lower left of cover. Vertical .
Type: Collection
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo_album-001.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012
Various radio equipment in a room
Wood-paneled room lined with wooden workbenches. Various radio equipment, cords, headphones in room. Papers tacked to wall. Morse code machine. Lights on wall and hanging from ceiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_church-kmbc_photo-001.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0012