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Collection includes historic regional newspapers from Cape Girardeau, Jefferson City, Jackson, Wayne County, and Bollinger County. Also included are newspapers from North Carolina and Michigan. Dates range from 1827-1917.

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Pamphlet providing cultural and geological history of the Southeastern Missouri region. Includes a map of "The Old Settlement Trail" and a map of regional mines and quarries.

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Correspondence, maps, business and railroad papers, court records, artifacts and ephemera, from the various business ventures of Houck, Southeast Missouri railroad entrepreneur and opponent of the Little River Drainage project.

Abstract The Lueders Studio Collection spans seventy years of commercial photographic work by Herbert Lueders and his sons, Paul and John. Lueders Studio, located at 427 Broadway, began operations in the 1920s. Paul Lueders earned national fame as a Master Retoucher, turning photographs into fine art. The Lueders Collection is a "who's who" of Southeast Missouri, containing images of local people, families, politicians, businesses and events. People from all walks of life came from the surrounding...

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Programs for the Spring Concert Tours of 1908 and 1909. Information includes lists of band members and set lists for the concerts.

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St. Louis Dispatch newspaper article written by Charles Menees on the restoration of "Old Mingo Swamp." Article is accompanied by color images of the wildlife refuge.

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The Sikeston Herald newspaper article written by Philip A. DuMont on the proposal to restore the Mingo Swamp land.

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Articles from various newspapers concerning the major flooding of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1937.

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W.A. Moore's diploma granted from the College of Business from the Southeast Misosuri State Normal School.

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Three large photographs of the Ramin Family, including one photograph of Friederich Wilhelm Ramin (1844-1904) and his wife Milda Weller Ramin (b. 1862) and two photographs of their youngest daughter, Alma Ella Rachel Ramin Iffert also known as Rachel (1893-1980). Friederich and Milda emigrated from Germany to Missouri. Rachel was born in Illmo, MO. The Ramin family moved to outside of Advance, MO and lived on 180 acres of land.