RH. Regional History Collections

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Architectural drawings of both the exterior and interior of multiple rooms during the original building and 2 subsequent renovations of the C.W. Boutin house in Cape Girardeau [Mo]. *Oversized

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Letters, newspaper clippings, photographs (13) and yearbooks (2) relating to Bowden, a prominent African-American educator in Southeast Missouri and principal of the Lincoln High School, Charleston, [Mo], for 23 years. Yearbooks are from Lincoln High School (1950) and Lincoln University, Jefferson City, [Mo] (1950).

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Audio tapes (3) and interview transcripts from an oral history project on Missouri Veterans and their experiences in World War II. Also included are the biographies and a report by Kyle Mabuce as part of his independent study.

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A collection of military and historical publications and ephemera collected by Young. Also includes postcards, photographs, ration books, currency, newspapers, scrapbooks, and clippings from American and European military conflicts, primarily 19th and 20th centuries.

Abstract The collection chronicles the young adult life and missionary work of Ethel Mabuce (later Soelberg), a native of the Marquand, Missouri area. The collection documents Mabuce’s years as a student at the Missouri Normal School in Cape Girardeau, later in Chicago at the Evangelical Institute, at Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, and ultimately during her years of service in Burma, now Myanmar. Mabuce’s niece, Lucille Griffith, compiled and published her Burma letters in 1974 through the...

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Printed compilation of letters (20p) entitled “The Unjust and Unconstitutional Seizure of Land from Citizens of the Mingo Swamp Area in Southeast Missouri,” by Wagner to the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch protesting the establishment of the Mingo Wildlife Refuge. Printed by the Candor Press, Dexter, [Mo].

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Financial and legal papers, publications, ephemera, photographs, and ledgers documenting the furniture and undertaking business established by August Walther in Cape Girardeau in 1864, and owned by three generations of Walthers before its sale in 1979 to Tom Boudinot.

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Materials relating to the Wednesday Club of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, a literary and public service club for women. The club was part of the Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs and the General Federation of Woman’s Clubs. The collection consists of minute books, photographs, memorabilia, roll booklets, Missouri Club Woman newsletters and scrapbooks.

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Materials relating to the World War II Weingarten Prisoner of War (P.O.W) Camp located in Weingarten, a small town in Southeast Missouri. Includes photographs, negatives, camp publications, newspaper clippings, and microfilm.

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Correspondence, booklets, newspaper clippings, slides and scrapbook relating to the Missouri history mural in Kent Library, Southeast Missouri State University, by Missouri artist Jake Wells, and to Wells’ paintings of watermills in Missouri. *also listed as University Archives Collection