RH. Regional History Collections

Broadsheet announcing matinee concert by the United States Navy Band at Houck Field Stadium, Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, November 2, 1930, listing program. With advertisements for local eateries and elections. *also listed as University Archives Collection

Photocopy of New Madrid, [Mo] census, with typed letter of request for census from Felix Snider, Southeast Missouri State Teachers College Librarian.

Program from 4-H hog production show listing contest rules, previous winners and contest sponsors. Primarily advertisements from local businesses.

Printed pamphlet (16p) containing a chronological list of newspapers for Missouri and Illinois, between 1808 and 1897, held in the St. Louis Mercantile Library. Provides title, place of publication, frequency, and dates held.

Programs (16p) from the city picnic held at Fairground Park, the proceeds from which benefited the Community Band. Lists events and sponsors.

Bound transcript (58p) and recordings of interviews between local League of Women Voters members and Southeast Missouri State University history graduate student, Lisa Marie Graham.

Three volumes of records for the A.D. Leech company, a general store and later a cotton market, located at 102 North Main in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Records cover the period 1866-1871, 1868-1869, and 1868-1871.

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.

Bound photocopied typescript (38p) by McDowell entitled “Toward a History of the Methodist Churches of Indian Creek Valley” [Mo] prepared for the bicentennial celebration of American Methodism in the valley. Provides information on Draby’s Chapel, McLain Chapel, Shilo Church, Rock Hill or Stewart’s Chapel, Pleasant Hill A. M. E., Oak Hill, Fairview, Fruitland, and the Wesley United Methodist Churches.

Typescript (28p) by McDowell, of the Commission on Archives and History of the Missouri East Conference of the United Methodist Church, concerning the factual errors in Frank C. Tucker’s books Old McKendree Chapel and The Methodist Church in Missouri, 1789-1939.