Organizational histories, newspaper clippings, meeting materials, scrapbooks and scrapbook materials, photographs, a book, and other materials documenting the history of Church Women United in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the local branch of a nationwide religious organization. Documents the organization’s history, its regular business, and planning for its four annual events.

Four color postcards depicting scenes of Southeast Missouri, including the Bollinger Mill and covered bridge, the lime stone quarries south of Cape Girardeau, and the Mississippi River from Cape Rock and at the Mississippi River traffic bridge in Cape Girardeau.

Ordinance No. 930 (22p) regarding a contract dispute between the city and the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company over maintenance and operation of tracks and depots.

Ordinance No. 996 and amendments regarding misdemeanors and offenses against the city and penalties for them.

Report (15p) outlining city’s sources of revenue and its expenditures, and letter from Mayor F. A. o council discussing challenges faced by city.

Correspondence between Colonel John R. Purvis, First Division of Missouri, Confederate States of America, and other Confederate military personnel. Provides information regarding troop movements, care of army horses, soldier dissatisfaction, and capture of Federal soldiers. Originals held at the University of North Carolina. Photocopying not permitted.

Photographs of 915 and 921 College Hill Place, Cape Girardeau [Mo.] taken by historic preservation major John Bry.

Printed broadside announcing Home and Garden tour of Thilenius home, “Longview,” distributed by the Allied Garden Clubs of Cape Girardeau; photocopied typed notes on the home (2p) compiled by Jess E. Thilenius; floor plan of home; and National Register Nomination for home, submitted in 1980.

Recording of interview with Buxton, conducted by Dr. Paul Travis, professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University. Buxton describes his life experiences in Cape Girardeau and in Scott County. Topics discussed include medical conditions and contagious disease outbreaks as well as campus life at Southeast at the turn of the 20th century. The interview took place July 11, 1979.

Illustrated pamphlet advertising the services offered at Simpson’s Colonial Tavern, a service station and restaurant that opened in the 1940s in Cape Girardeau.