Invitation to dedication ceremony, dedication program; illustrated program from ceremony (1928) inaugurating the Cape Girardeau Traffic Bridge over the Mississippi River; automobile toll sticker, mimeograph typescript (23p) of pageant script written by Dorothy Quarles and Laura St. Ann Keller for the dedication, September 3, 1928; and map “Motor Routes to Cape Girardeau Bridge,” showing routes to bridge from fourteen states, circa 1928.

Includes four broadsides created by the sophomore classes of 1934, 1935, 1940 at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College. The broadsides outline rules for the Freshman classes of those years. Also includes two copies of the rules for the 1930 Sagamore Queen Contest.

Benton and Webster Literary Societies handwritten by-laws, in poor condition, and a program from a ceremony commemorating the 165th anniversary of George Washington’s birth, February 22, 1897. *Oversized

Resolution by the Missouri House of Representatives extending sympathy to the family for Felix E. Snider after his death. *oversized

Printed broadside announcing “Prodigious Failure of the Second Quituating Class,” of the school distributed at the commencement exercises of the Elementary Class, June 15, 1876, with typescript (3p) reminiscences from Edna N. Wilson and Bernice Limbaugh Miller regarding their parents’ recollections of the commencement.

Recording of Southeast Missouri State University marching band performing popular and classical selections, including “Fight SEMO.” Marching band selections recorded in Academic Auditorium on November 8-9, 1978, and Wind Ensemble selections December 1-7, 1978.

Correspondence, photographs, negatives, slides, clippings, publications, club and student record books, University Centennial material, and ephemera from Grauel, professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University from 1928 to 1971.

Newspaper clippings, personal correspondence, programs, notes, faculty and student record books, Southeast Missouri State University publications, miscellaneous personal items, slides, negatives, and 224 b/w photographs.