RH. Regional History Collections

Print and microfilm copies of the newspaper published in Benton [MO].

Transcripts and 150 audio cassettes of interviews on the history of the cotton industry in Scott County, [MO], 1920-1988. Also includes photographs of the people interviewed as well as other materials related to the operation of the oral history project.

Bound typescript (50p) entitled “The Geology and Geography of the Lowlands of Southeast Missouri,” by Magill, Head of the Science Department at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College for 28 years.

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.

Photographs taken at the Dinner Honoring teachers in the Southeast Missouri district.

Newspaper clippings from The Madison County Historian, by Mrs. J.W. Andrews and Henry C. Thompson, pertaining to settlement, Native Americans, family history and other local history topics concerning Madison County [Mo] history

Serena family correspondence and correspondence concerning Keuka College [New York], William Woods College [Fulton, Mo], and Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, at which Serena held presidencies, as well as the activities of the Christian Church. Also included are family financial papers, genealogy records, and poetry written by Virginia Hearne Serena, who married Joseph in 1915.

One 3.25” x 5.25” b/w photograph showing the residence (916 College Hill) of B. G. Shackelford, professor at the Missouri State Normal School/Southeast Missouri State Teachers College in Cape Girardeau.

Scrapbook of a series of newspaper articles about a fictional journey up the Shawnee path or Kingshighway. The character in the story describes his encounters with native peoples on his trip along the path.

An honors paper written by Southeast Missouri State College student Howard Emerson on the roadside demonstrations that occurred in January of 1939 protesting the living conditions of sharecroppers throughout southeast Missouri.