RH. Regional History Collections

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Illustrated pamphlets commemorating the 50th and 60th anniversaries of the bank, with historical notes (8p) on the bank and its leaders.

Abstract Correspondence and documents received by Captain Flad, Company B, Engineer Regiment of the West, during the American Civil War, who was responsible for building the fortifications (Forts A, B, C, and D) around Cape Girardeau and concerning his pension. Includes letters, maps, musters, orders, promotions, reports and photographs of Flad. Flad also served as the chief assistant engineer on the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, and laid out Forest Park in St. Louis as the chief engineer of the Forest...

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Four holograph, signed poems by Foard including “Alma Mater of the Doniphan [Mo] High School, 1925,” as well as carbon typescript of “Commemoration Ode” by Foard written in honor of Southeast Missouri State Teachers College Diamond Jubilee celebration.

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Illustrated tract promoting the sale of lots in the Cape Girardeau subdivision located on South Sprigg Street near historic Fort D, showing May Greene School.

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Photographs and negatives of the earthworks at Fort D, a civil war era fort in Cape Girardeau [Mo].

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Microfilm copies of the bills of lading, shipping documents of receipt, for Sand Bar Landing [Il] from March 29, 1893-May 8, 1895.

Abstract Papers relating to Friant’s careers in business and public service, an important promoter of economic development for Southeast Missouri, as an officer in the Himmelberger-Harrison Land and Investment Company (1915-1925), as special representative for the Little River Drainage District Association, as Secretary-Treasurer of the National Drainage Association (1931-1933), and as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture (1933-1939). Includes correspondence, copies of federal documents...

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Personal, business and legal correspondence, financial and legal papers, school, church and genealogical records, scrapbooks, photographs, postcards, and artifacts from the four allied families of Friend, Bollinger, Heise and Heldermon of Southeast Missouri. The Friends were a pioneering family in Scott County, first settling there in 1796, near Benton.

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Articles and photographs relating to Cape Girardeau—history, events, people, and organizations.

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Correspondence, photographs (31), newspaper clippings, publicity materials, and administrative records of the Missouri Council for the Humanities, from Professor Fred Goodwin, Dean of the College of Humanities at Southeast Missouri State University and chair of the committee during this time period. The records document the formation and the work of the Committee.