Ste Genevieve County Map - includes street map of Ste. Genevieve, St. Marys, Bloomsdale, and Rockey Ridge/Lake Forest. *oversized

Articles, photographs, programs, and booklets regarding Ste. Genevieve and the bicentennial celebration in 1935.

“Stories of Cape” articles and Missouri history newspaper articles.

Southeastern District Agricultural Society Award presented to Edward Stoutmeister for Best display of horseshoes. *oversized

Checkbook registers, signature books, daily records for loans, and other records for the Branch Bank or the State of Missouri (Sturdivant Bank) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Records of items shipped on different steamboats for R. Sturdivant in 1856-1857.

Reports and correspondence resulting from a senior sociology seminar at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, intended to study race relations in Cape Girardeau. Included are the form given to students for interviews, the class’ final report, the report of a student, Alma Meyer, and her correspondence with local, state, and national organizations on the conditions of African Americans throughout the nation.

Booklet (31p) from the Telephone Pioneers of America, telling about the company and the history of the telephone in Southeast Missouri. Booklet (12p) entitled “The Telephone Comes to St. Louis” which tells of the first 20 years of the telephone in St. Louis, along with a letter from Southwestern Bell gifting the booklet to Kent Library.

Typed manuscript (4p) prepared under supervision of L. A. Perret concerning the history of telephone service in Southeast Missouri; and typed manuscript (1p) with statistics concerning Southwestern Bell Telephone Company employment and service in Cape Girardeau, May 1956.

Correspondence (1934-1949), Snow’s writings (1921-1948), including letters to the editor, short stories, and speeches; and two scrapbooks of news clippings by and about Snow (1926-1954). Topics covered include personal reminiscences farming in Southeast Missouri, government farm policies, roads, flood control, politics, the 1939 Roadside Strike, World War II, and foreign policy. Filmed from originals on deposit at the Western Historical Collection, University of Missouri, St. Louis.