RH. Regional History Collections

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Scrapbook (22 pages) containing yearbooks from the Cape Girardeau County Women’s Extension Club, Achievement Day programs, group photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera documenting the activities of the Spring Valley Home Economics Extension Club.

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Microfilm copies of the Jackson [Mo] newspaper.

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Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Dave Dickey about the history of the town of Greenville, [Mo].

Abstract Recording of interview with Dickey, a resident of Illmo, [Mo], by Dr. Paul Travis, a history professor from Southeast Missouri State University. Dickey was born in 1918 in Illinois and moved to Illmo as a child. He attended Southeast Missouri State Teachers College from 1936 to 1940, when he dropped out to work in the local railroad company. Dickey served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, traveling to Iceland and then to Europe, where he participated in the Normandy Invasion. After...

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Typed manuscript (1p) on “The Early Telegraph in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,” by Dillon, chronicling the history of the first telegraph lines running between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis in 1850, the impact of the American Civil War, and line construction by the Western Union Telegraph Company in the 1870's.

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Articles covering the political battle for the position of Missouri Governor between Hon. Lawrence McDaniel and Gov. Forrest C. Donnell.

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Research materials from Drum’s graduate thesis project at Southeast Missouri State University, an historic site survey of Cape Girardeau County, which excluded Cape Girardeau and Jackson, with the exception of the Oliver House in Jackson. Includes drafts of the survey, photographs, newspaper clippings, maps, and other research materials.

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Letters sent to Jo Ann Rosenberg Ashley of Hornersville, Missouri, from the former classmates of Ashley serving in the military during World War II.

Abstract Mimeograph typescripts, typescripts and carbon typescripts of essays and speeches by Duckworth, Curator of Museums at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College for 19 years beginning in 1931. Subjects include: the Beckwith Collection; medicinal plants of the aborigines; prehistoric textile art; stone art; pottery of the aborigines; foods and methods of preparation [primitive man]; interesting trees of Southeast Missouri; fossil leaves from Lower Wilcox, Idalia, [Mo]; anthocyanins; mound...

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Ledger containing the records of the Dunkard Church (later known as the Universalist Order), organized in Cape Girardeau County in the early 19th century in the Whitewater community; and records of the Millersville [Mo] Spiritualist Society, formed in 1902. Also contains typed transcript of the ledger with historical overview prepared by J. C. “Jack” Miller.