Includes images of Southeast Missouri State University buildings, the Mississippi River, buildings, people, transportation, and panoramas of early Cape Girardeau. Photographs are arranged by date, undated photographs are arranged alphabetically by title.

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.