Maps, blueprints, photographs, and newspapers from the southeast Missouri Region.

The "scheme of erection" plan, 1927, and various design plans for the bridge.

Includes Arkansas and Indiana state maps, railroad, plat, and blueprint maps from counties in southeast Missouri. Also a map of the Little River Drainage District. A listing of residents of Alexander County, Illinois, in 1911 pertaining to tax records.

Correspondence, engineering journals, reports, plans, financial and legal documents, charts, and photographs relating to the construction of the traffic bridge spanning the Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau, [Mo], and East Cape Girardeau, [Il], constructed by the engineering firm of Harrington, Howard and Ash (now Harrington and Cortelyou, Inc.,) of Kansas City, [Mo].

Various maps of Missouri and surrounding states, including geographical, geological, navigational, land district, and county and townships. Some maps are undated. *oversized

Various street maps of the city of Cape Girardeau [Mo]. *Oversized

Correspondence, maps, business and railroad papers, court records, artifacts and ephemera, from the various business ventures of Houck, Southeast Missouri railroad entrepreneur and opponent of the Little River Drainage project.

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.

The collection consists of photographs, daily engineer journals, original hand-drawn plans for the bridge and toll house, alternate rejected designs, progress charts, Gantt charts, correspondence, financial and legal papers.

The collection consists of photographs, daily engineer journals, original hand-drawn plans for the bridge and toll house, alternate rejected designs, progress charts, Gantt charts, correspondence, financial and legal papers.