Photographs and negatives created by Brooks, documenting small, rural towns in Southeast Missouri, including Advance, Bloomfield, Chaonia, Fulton, Harviell, Patterson, Taft and Williamsville.

Letters, newspaper clippings, photographs (13) and yearbooks (2) relating to Bowden, a prominent African-American educator in Southeast Missouri and principal of the Lincoln High School, Charleston, [Mo], for 23 years. Yearbooks are from Lincoln High School (1950) and Lincoln University, Jefferson City, [Mo] (1950).

Ephemera from Daues, a student at the Missouri State Normal School at Cape Girardeau (class of 1898), including photographs, a program, and letter of recommendation from Edward H. Engelmann, Clerk of the Cape Girardeau Court of Common Pleas. *also listed as University Archives Collection

Typed manuscript (1p) on “The Early Telegraph in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,” by Dillon, chronicling the history of the first telegraph lines running between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis in 1850, the impact of the American Civil War, and line construction by the Western Union Telegraph Company in the 1870's.

Microfilm copies of the bills of lading, shipping documents of receipt, for Sand Bar Landing [Il] from March 29, 1893-May 8, 1895.

Bookstamp used by prominent rare book collector Charles Luce Harrison.

Financial ledger of Swob, of De Soto, [Mo], who worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. In the ledger, Swob records the jobs he performed for the railroad, the amounts of pay he received, information on his war bonds, unemployment insurance, his income and expenditures, and the names of his family members and their dates of birth.

Microfilm copy of a series of the United Church Board for World Ministries: North American Indian Papers held at the American Philosophic Society Library, Philadelphia, [Pa].

Street map of downtown Cape Girardeau, MO completed by Cherry, the Broadway Florist.

Personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, ephemera, drafts of and notes for Heil’s book “Recollections” regarding her years of service as secretary to the President of the Southeast Missouri State Teachers College from 1905 to 1930 and as secretary to school’s Board of Regents from 1912 to 1947.