Historic Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri Photographs/Negatives

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2023.029

Scope and Contents

The prints and negatives contain images of Leming Hall, Church of God (500 Emerald St., Cape Girardeau, MO), Arthur Harrison, Cape Girardeau Street Department, Grace Steamboat, Church of God Cape Girardeau, Bartels'window display, street cleaning, National Honor Society students, Central High School, St. Francis Hospital, Benton High School (Missouri or Illinois?), Southeast Hospital, Marquette Cement, Broadway Theatre, Standard Oil Company, Rotary Club, Yellow Cab Company, Police Department, Cape Girardeau Court House and Library, Coleman-Burner Co., Buckner-Ragsdale Co., Franklin School and other unidentified scenes. Housed chronologically within the boxes according to dates on original envelopes.

Dates

Creation: 1938-1944, undated

Full Extent

164 Photographic Prints : 164 Photographic Prints and Negatives

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection contains 164 photographic prints and negative copies of Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri businesses, groups and scenery between 1938 and 1944.

Custodial History

The prints were found in the bottom of a plastic tote purchased at an estate sale and donated to Special Collections and Archives by Mellody Keller. Their original source and/or purpose is unknown.