Abstract Recording of interview with Dickey, a resident of Illmo, [Mo], by Dr. Paul Travis, a history professor from Southeast Missouri State University. Dickey was born in 1918 in Illinois and moved to Illmo as a child. He attended Southeast Missouri State Teachers College from 1936 to 1940, when he dropped out to work in the local railroad company. Dickey served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, traveling to Iceland and then to Europe, where he participated in the Normandy Invasion. After...

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Legal and financial papers, ledgers and photographs of Seehausen, owner of Seehausen’s Sanitary Meat Market in Cape Girardeau (637 Broadway) and of a butcher shop on North Sprigg.

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Menu from popular Cape Girardeau, [Mo] restaurant (1942-1997) showing selections and prices.

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Articles and booklets on the history and process of women’s suffrage in the United States. Contains booklets that are both pro-suffrage and anti-suffrage.

Abstract Begun in 1935 as an effort of the federally-funded W.P.A., the Historical Records Survey attempted to inventory the historical records of each state, county by county. The completed inventories included the holdings of public offices, churches, private collections, and special groups. Background information on the history of each surveyed county and town was also compiled by the surveyors. The project was incomplete in 1942 when the American involvement in World War II led to its permanent...

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Ration books issued to the Gerlach family in Cape Girardeau.

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Ration books issued to Bernadette M. Heche and H. Marie Friant. Includes receipts from Esicar’s Market, Cape Girardeau, [Mo].

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Three souvenir booklets from the 1904 World’s Fair held in St. Louis Missouri.

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Booklet (47p) entitled A Catalogue of Periodicals of Missouri of 1902 in World’s Fair Exhibit in Missouri Building compiled by F.A. Sampson, Secretary State Historical Society of Missouri, which list books by Missouri authors.