This collection includes an autobiographical account of life in Kansas City from the late 1920s through the late 1940s written by Audrey Maridale Kennedy and postcards, correspondence, personal papers, scrapbooks, and photographs from the Kennedy and Ottinger families from throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

This collection contains papers, journals, books, photographs, and other materials that belonged to the Crissey, McGinnis, and Perstein families. Several journals were written by William E. Crissey as a means to teach his children about their ancestors.