RH. Regional History Collections

Pamphlet promoting agricultural development in the region.

Typed manuscripts, pamphlets, postcards, and maps, relating to radio and television stations in Southeast Missouri, including KGMO radio, and KFVS radio and television.

Programs, premium lists, and catalogs from the Cape Girardeau Fair, later known as Southeast District Fair. Materials provide information on exhibitors and owners, fair association officers, and board, performers, and show sponsors.

Newspaper clippings, photographs, programs pertaining to the regional meet held on the campus of Southeast Missouri State Teachers College. Articles relate to high school organization in southeast Missouri. Includes event information for track and field meets, band competitions, typewriting contests, etc.

Scrapbook of photocopied newspaper clippings relating the history of football in Southeast Missouri high schools and recording games played (dates and coaches listed), wins and losses for Southeast Missouri teams throughout most of the 20th century, with a high school basketball supplement for 1996-1997.

Fund-raising brochures (1928), services brochure, illustrated booklets, 50th anniversary report (1978), an annual report (1987-1988), and a 70th anniversary heritage booklet (1998) providing a history of the hospital with information about former administrators and trustees.

Bound typescript (46p) by O. D. Niswonger, hospital administrator, providing 50-year historical review of the hospital. Provides information on hospital facilities, administrators, trustees, and fund-raising efforts.

Typed manuscript (3p) on the history of regional newspapers and their publishers compiled by Judy [?] from George Naeter’s notes; and typed letter, signed (2p) from Kenneth B. Holmes, Newspaper Librarian, State Historical Society of Missouri, to Felix Snider, Librarian at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, regarding the history of various newspapers in Cape Girardeau, 1956.

Illustrated booklet (60p) distributed by the First National Bank, Blytheville, Arkansas, presenting composite sketches of the agricultural and industrial production of individual counties in Northeastern Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel, including Pemiscot, New Madrid, Mississippi, Dunklin, Stoddard, and Scott.

Pamphlets and scrapbook advertising settlement in southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas. The pamphlets were produced by real estate firms, Frisco rail lines, and the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau. They discuss topics such as drainage, roads, climate, soil, crops, churches, schools, livestock, land values as well as contain railroad maps of the region.