RH. Regional History Collections
Found in 529 Collections and/or Records:
Cape Girardeau Surveyor’s Notebook
Bound volume (45p) with survey notes and sketches of residential and commercial properties in Cape Girardeau. Surveyor is not identified.
Cape Girardeau Tax List
Photocopied compilation (3p) of a list of householders listed by township for Cape Girardeau, 1814. Compiled by [Thekla] V. James, November 10, 1984.
Cape Girardeau Telephone Rate Card and Directory
Laminated copies of a telephone rate card and a Cape Girardeau telephone directory, both in poor condition. *Oversized
Cape Girardeau Tornado of 1949 Photographs
Images of tornado damage of various homes and businesses around Cape Girardeau Mo.
Cape Girardeau Traffic Bridge Ephemera
Invitation to dedication ceremony, dedication program; illustrated program from ceremony (1928) inaugurating the Cape Girardeau Traffic Bridge over the Mississippi River; automobile toll sticker, mimeograph typescript (23p) of pageant script written by Dorothy Quarles and Laura St. Ann Keller for the dedication, September 3, 1928; and map “Motor Routes to Cape Girardeau Bridge,” showing routes to bridge from fourteen states, circa 1928.
Cape Girardeau Weekly Argus
Original copies of a weekly newspaper published by W. H. Hamilton in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Cape Girardeau Writers Guild Records
Correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records of the Writers Guild, documenting the group’s history from the groups founding in 1943.
Cape Girardeau’s Businesses
Bound volume and one loose issue of magazine published monthly by the Chamber of Commerce, December 1929-December 1930. December 1929 was charter issue.
Captain Clarence Nelson Fultz Papers
Photocopied newspaper clippings, list of river boats on which Fultz worked and jobs he held between 1917 and 1955, log of pilot work listing boats, dates and pay, list of place names along the Mississippi River between Alton, [Il] and New Orleans, [La], membership lists of Mississippi and Ohio River Pilots’ Association, 1931, 1945; and speech given to Alaska Exchange Club, 1978.
Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services
Publication of the U.S. government in 1841 (after the 1840 census) which lists “pensioners for Revolutionary [War] or military services with their names, ages, and places of residence as returned by the marshals of the several judicial districts, under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census.”