RH. Regional History Collections

Pamphlets concerning the city’s centennial celebration events and providing some history of the town.

Microfilm copy of a series of the United Church Board for World Ministries: North American Indian Papers held at the American Philosophic Society Library, Philadelphia, [Pa].

Typed manuscripts, pamphlets, programs, bulletins, newsletters, minutes and ephemera from churches in the region, including Altenburg, Cape Girardeau, Fredericktown, Fruitland, Gordonville, Jackson, Morehouse, New Madrid, Perryville, Potosi, and Scott City. List is arranged alphabetically by location.

Photographs of 915 and 921 College Hill Place, Cape Girardeau [Mo.] taken by historic preservation major John Bry.

Materials collected and compiled by Derek Coller relate to Jess Stacy (1904-1995), a jazz pianist with roots in Southeast Missouri. Stacy played with the Benny Goodman Band and several other ensembles during his career. The collection includes correspondence between Coller and Stacy and other musicians, photographs, news clippings, and publications.

Illustrated pamphlet advertising the services offered at Simpson’s Colonial Tavern, a service station and restaurant that opened in the 1940s in Cape Girardeau.

Issues of the Cape Girardeau newspaper The Community, covering stories dealing with the Cape Girardeau region.

Typed manuscript (3p) relating battles and skirmishes of Company K, compiled for The Banner newspaper at Marble Hill, [Mo]. Lists wounded, killed and uninjured.

Ten dollar note from the Confederate States of America.

Two scrapbooks and one printed address memorializing the Confederate States of America, and containing primarily newspaper clippings, currency, poetry, written tributes and memorials, and photographic images. Address is a tribute to General Robert E. Lee by Honorable Harry B. Hawes of Missouri.