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Article written by Lila Maxine Pine relating the history of Cape Girardeau County. Topics include early history, the County court, the budget, and personnel.

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Articles and photographs relating to Cape Girardeau public school teachers and college faculty/staff retirements, deaths, and tributes. Also includes general articles regarding special events in Cape Girardeau.

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Articles regarding a two-day celebration in Cape Girardeau and two photographs of the parade.

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Illustrated maps of southeastern Missouri and surrounding areas during the US Civil War. Some maps depict Union and Confederate positions in Belmont, [Mo] and New Madrid, [Mo].

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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.

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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.