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Marr Sound Archives

Coordinates: 39°02′04″N 94°34′37″W / 39.034576°N 94.57688°W / 39.034576; -94.57688
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The Marr Sound Archives is an audiovisual archive, a part of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Miller Nichols Library.

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. The recordings in Marr, currently numbering over 400,000, do not circulate but listening stations are available in the Archives.

39°02′04″N 94°34′37″W / 39.034576°N 94.57688°W / 39.034576; -94.57688