Bob White Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 1999.003

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Materials pertaining to a grant awarded to Professor White, Dr. Lacy, and Mark Taylor by the Missouri Committee for the Humanities. Records include paperwork for the grant, microfilm reels of county government documents dating from the early 1900s, a sound reel and a slide presentation, photographs of early Cape Girardeau, images of rural schools, (photographs, negatives, and glass plate negatives), and cassette tapes of the oral history interviews. Some of the photographic materials do not directly relate to the Rural Schools project, but were also collected by Professor White over the course of his career at Southeast Missouri State University. The collection is arranged by the format and subject of the materials. Series I deals with the grant process, and Series II-V contain the research and records collected and created over the course of the project.

Dates

Creation: 1890-1985

Conditions Governing Access

Microfilm, cassettes, sound reels, and slides all require specialized equipment. Please contact Special Collections and Archives to ensure equipment is available.

Rights Statement

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Biographical / Historical

The Missouri Committee for the Humanities awarded Professor White, Dr. Christabel Lacy, and Mark Taylor a grant to fund a project to research rural schools. Bob White was a professor and historian at Southeast Missouri State University, Dr. Lacy was an anthropology professor at Southeast Missouri State University, and Mark Taylor was a graduate assistant in the department of history. The grant project’s goal was to determine the social, economic, educational, and cultural impact that rural schools had on the lives of those who worked at and attended these institutions. The end result of the grant was a published book, Rural Schools and Their Communities in Cape Girardeau County, a traveling exhibit, and a slide presentation.

Extent

2 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Materials pertaining to a grant awarded to Professor Bob White, Dr. Christabel Lacy, and Mark Taylor by the Missouri Committee for the Humanities. Their goal was to identify rural school sites in Cape Girardeau County, research the schools, photograph the schools, conduct oral history interviews, and to publish a book on their findings.

Provenance

This collection was assembled by Bob White, Dr. Chris Lacy, and Mark Taylor for a project funded by a grant by the Missouri Council for the Humanities to research Cape Girardeau County rural schools. Upon completion of the project, Bob White donated the materials from the project.

Separated Materials

Lacy, Christabel, and Bob White. Rural Schools and Communities in Cape Girardeau County. Cape Girardeau, Mo: The Center for Regional History and Cultural Heritage, and Southeast Missouri State University, 1985. 1-75. Print. Book is available in the Special Collections and Archives Reference Collection: Call no. 370.19346L119r