Abstract Correspondence, records of the Missouri Federation of Women’s Democratic Club, photographs, news clippings, scrapbook, and War Finance Committee material (1942-1944) of Williams, a Cape Girardeau resident who took an active role in state and local politics. From 1937 to 1940, she headed the Cafeteria Committee for the Southeast Missouri State Teachers College. She served in local branches of New Deal organizations, was a prominent member of the Democratic Party, and served as President of...

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Typed letter (3p) from Wilson, Geologist, State of Missouri, Bureau of Geology and Mines, Rolla, [Mo], to Professor J. C. Logan, Missouri State Normal School, offering an explanation for the development of the Southeast Missouri lowlands.

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Photographs, correspondence, and news clippings concerning PFC Richard G. Wilson, who earned a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for service during the Korean War. The majority of the materials deal with memorials that were dedicated in Wilson’s honor in the period immediately following his death and in later years.

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Menu from popular Cape Girardeau, [Mo] restaurant (1942-1997) showing selections and prices.

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Articles and booklets on the history and process of women’s suffrage in the United States. Contains booklets that are both pro-suffrage and anti-suffrage.

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Three souvenir booklets from the 1904 World’s Fair held in St. Louis Missouri.

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Booklet (47p) entitled A Catalogue of Periodicals of Missouri of 1902 in World’s Fair Exhibit in Missouri Building compiled by F.A. Sampson, Secretary State Historical Society of Missouri, which list books by Missouri authors.

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Ration books issued to the Gerlach family in Cape Girardeau.

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Ration books issued to Bernadette M. Heche and H. Marie Friant. Includes receipts from Esicar’s Market, Cape Girardeau, [Mo].

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Holograph and typewritten letters from Vancil-Rizer, St. Joseph, [Mo], to Mississippi Riverboat Captain Clarence N. Fultz, Cape Girardeau, [Mo], regarding her grandfather’s riverboat the Paw Paw, sunk by the Union Army during the American Civil War just north of Cape Girardeau at Vancil’s Landing.