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Photographs and negatives of 1409 N. Sprigg, the house of the Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity.

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Poster advertising the auction of 124 lots in the area “between State Normal Buildings and Mississippi River.” *oversized.

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Bashaka language primers used by Christian missionaries teaching in the Belgian Congo. Smith was a 1914 graduate of the Missouri State Normal School in Cape Girardeau.

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Issue of the Cape Girardeau newspaper dated April 13, 1870

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Printed and bound poem (20p) entitled “Story in Rhyme of Cape Girardeau, Missouri and its People,” by Smith, printed as a “Twentieth Century Souvenir” celebrating the business people of the community.

Abstract Recordings of Snider’s lectures to the Home and Community Relations class at Southeast Missouri State University in February and March of 1973 on historical aspects of Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri. In the February presentation, Snider described the geology, manmade water works, and pre-Columbian history of the area. In the March lecture, Dr. Snider described the “people and places” of Southeast Missouri from an historical perspective. These were two of his last public speaking...

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Copies of Cementopics, the newsletter of the Marquette Cement Company, with articles in each issue featuring Cape Girardeau. Also includes a program from a June 1957 recognition dinner.

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Photographs (b/w) of Cape Girardeau landmarks from Felix Snider’s Cape Girardeau: Biography of a City (1956).

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Carbon typescript (6p) by Snider entitled “History of the Cape Girardeau Eagle (Union Series),” a local 19th century newspaper.

Abstract Ten oral histories from six residents of Hermann, Missouri discussing their experiences growing up in the community, including: education, agriculture, community development, transportation, family life, World War I, Prohibition, the Depression, and World War II. The oral histories were conducted by Dr. Arthur Mattingly, Professor of History at Southeast Missouri State University, between September and December, 1979, as part of “Hermann: The Rhine City on the Missouri River,” a project...