RH. Regional History Collections

Contains a wide variety of materials relating to Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) work and men that worked for the CCC, specifically CCC Company #3729, based in New Madrid, Mo. Includes materials on CCC reunions from 1973-2008, photographs, artifacts, and other records.

Materials, documents, and artifacts collected by Colonel Edward Roberts during World War II, including US government documents and publications, newspapers and magazines, German documents, posters, and artifacts, and personal and biographical information.

Correspondence and government documents (proclamations, marriage certificates, etc.) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Includes documents effecting local history around Jackson [MO], the state of Missouri, and the Louisiana Territory as a whole.

Illustrated program (10p) from the rededication of McKendree Methodist Chapel in Jackson, [Mo], and printed words and lyrics (12p) to hymns for the service. *Oversized

Correspondence, publications, speeches, memorabilia, and clippings concerning Forrest H. Rose, Dean of Southeast Missouri State College from 1945 until his death in 1969.

A program from the dedication ceremony of the Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. United States Courthouse and a pamphlet about the building.

Magazines published by the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, with articles on southeast Missouri. Vol. 41, No 10, October 1997 and Vol.49, No. 11, November 1997. *oversized.

The Quest Club of Cape Girardeau was a local women’s club associated with the Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs (MFWC) and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC). The scrapbooks contain news clippings, photographs, programs, and biographical information on the members of the Quest Club.

Official yearbooks (32) from the Cape Girardeau Woman’s club, dating from 1963-1985, and 1989-2003, a booklet listing all members and summarizing Quest Club programs from 1935- 1985, and one group photo from the 60th Anniversary of the Quest Club, dated June 14, 1995.

Printed manual (25p) by Parker, future president of the Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, but then at Central Missouri State Teachers College, Warrensburg. *also listed as University Archives Collection.