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RH. Regional History Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: RH

Found in 529 Collections and/or Records:

Charles E. Brooks Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1998.004
Abstract

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

Dates: 1909-1959

Charles F Bowden Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2003.063
Abstract

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).

Dates: circa 1915-1985

Charles H. Daues Collection

 Collection — Box 1183, Folder: 008
Identifier: 2002.246
Abstract

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

Dates: circa 1898-1900

Charles H. Dillon Manuscript

 Collection — Box 1135, Folder: 004
Identifier: 2006.110
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1973

Charles H.B. Frenzel Shipping Receipt Book (Microfilm)

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2007.092
Abstract

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

Dates: 1893-1895

Charles Luce Harrison Crest

 Collection — Box 1137, Folder: 017
Identifier: 01
Abstract

Bookstamp used by prominent rare book collector Charles Luce Harrison.

Dates: Undated

Charles Swob Ledger

 Collection — Box 1737, Ledger: 011
Identifier: 2001.029
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1924-1962

“Cherokee Missions” from the United Church Board for World Ministries: North American Indian Papers (Microfilm)

 Collection — Box MF038, Reel: 05
Identifier: 2007.091
Abstract

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].

Dates: 1817-1883

Cherry, the Broadway Florist's Cape Girardeau Map

 Collection — Case MMC 4.9, Folder: 011
Identifier: 2006.039
Abstract

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

Dates: Undated

Christine Wheeler Heil Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1998.093
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1902-1965