RH. Regional History Collections

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Carbon typescript (7p) of first annual report submitted by librarian concerning financial expenditures and library usage.

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Blueprint of the layout for Capaha Park’s Rose Garden dated June 10, 1954. *Oversized.

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Microfilmed copies of the Cape County Post, a newspaper published in Jackson [MO].

Abstract Film footage of various events of note in the Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri, and Mississippi River Valley region, in the late 1930s and 1940s. Includes scenes of Mississippi River flooding (c. 1937) at Cape Girardeau, Charleston, Wyatt and New Madrid, Missouri and Cairo, Illinois; and a later flood (c. 1940s) in the Cape Girardeau downtown and riverfront area; the burning of the Cape Girardeau Community Club House in February 1937; damage from the November 1936 tornado in Cape...

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Meeting minutes, correspondence, and other papers relating to the Cape Girardeau Bicentennial Celebration in 1993. Also contains a few documents regarding the city’s Sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary.

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Advertisement for the Cape Girardeau Business College discussing its location, history and curriculum.

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Souvenir pocket directory (16p) containing a subject listing of “reliable” businesses in the city of Cape Girardeau, showing locations, with advertisements for local merchants. A one-page narrative essay provides an overview of the business life of the city.

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Photocopied typescript (14p) of alphabetical subject listing of all businesses and industries in Cape Girardeau in 1956.

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Bound volume and one loose issue of magazine published monthly by the Chamber of Commerce, December 1929-December 1930. December 1929 was charter issue.

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Illustrated brochure (9p) on constructing fallout shelters, with maps of Cape Girardeau and Jackson shelters, and list of committee members.