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Legal documents tracing history of ownership of Lot 16, in Range H (South Spanish Street) in Cape Girardeau, the land occupied by the D. A. Glenn House.

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General correspondence of Missouri Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown, during his term as governor.

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Ephemera from Daughtery’s days as a student at the Missouri State Normal School at Cape Girardeau, including programs for Hesperian Society events, recitals, a Cape Girardeau High School Commencement program (1915) and a Women’s Missionary Society District meeting program (1915).

Abstract Typed letter (43p) from Frye to Sadie Kent, Librarian at the Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, regarding World War I, in which Frye served. Frye includes annotations regarding a book God Have Mercy on Us by William T. Scanlon, about his unit, the 97th Company, 6th Regiment, U. S. Marine Corps, part of the 4th Brigade, Second Division American Expeditionary Forces. Also included are transcriptions of Frye’s letters written to home during the war, 1918-1919, and postwar...

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Ledgers (7) and loose records relating to the rural school that was located in Graysboro, Mo, as well as the school district that the Graysboro school was a part of. Includes student records, i.e. grades and attendance, school/district finances, teacher contracts, and some school board records.

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Letterbook (307p) and typescript containing the correspondence from the Office of the Chief of Ordnance of the Department of Kentucky, kept primarily by Captain Henry F. Potter. Also included are monthly return forms, receipts, invoices and cover letter.

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H.H. Lewis was an essayist and poet from Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Greatly influenced by the struggles of farm laborers, his work focuses primarily on the social and political issues of the 1930s through the 1950s. Later in his life, Lewis developed theories about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Recording of interview with Grauel, retired Professor of English, from Southeast Missouri State University, during which he describes his life experience growing up in Ohio and eventually moving to Missouri and obtaining work at the university (then Southeast Missouri State Teachers College). Interview took place over the course of several days between June 26-July 3, 1979. Disc 1 running time: 00:53:29.Disc 2 running time:00:50:00.*also listed as University Archives Collection

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Correspondence, engineering journals, reports, plans, financial and legal documents, charts, and photographs relating to the construction of the traffic bridge spanning the Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau, [Mo], and East Cape Girardeau, [Il], constructed by the engineering firm of Harrington, Howard and Ash (now Harrington and Cortelyou, Inc.,) of Kansas City, [Mo].

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Invitations, programs, speeches, financial documents, news releases, and guest list, related to planning and execution of opening events in Kent Library for the H&C papers. See Harrington and Cortelyou, Inc. Mississippi River Bridge Papers, 2001.091.