Abstract Materials collected by Donald and Rubye Kraft. Includes ephemera from Donald B. Kraft’s days as a student at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College (1938-1939), V-Mail correspondence from World War II, Armed Forces editions of Newsweek and the Boston Herald, and late 19th century Cape Girardeau ephemera. Also includes a typed manuscript by Don Kraft (34p) entitled “Der Amerikanish Traum (The American Dream): A Profile of a Hessian Immigrant in Cape Girardeau, 1855-1888,” regarding the...

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Photocopied newspaper clippings, list of river boats on which Fultz worked and jobs he held between 1917 and 1955, log of pilot work listing boats, dates and pay, list of place names along the Mississippi River between Alton, [Il] and New Orleans, [La], membership lists of Mississippi and Ohio River Pilots’ Association, 1931, 1945; and speech given to Alaska Exchange Club, 1978.

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Ledger containing the records of the Dunkard Church (later known as the Universalist Order), organized in Cape Girardeau County in the early 19th century in the Whitewater community; and records of the Millersville [Mo] Spiritualist Society, formed in 1902. Also contains typed transcript of the ledger with historical overview prepared by J. C. “Jack” Miller.

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Contracts, list of musical selections and documents relating to the city’s financial support of the band.

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Mimeograph typescript (19p) of “Legend of Cape Girardeau” script, performed at the Cape Girardeau Sesquicentennial Pageant, recounting the town’s history.

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Navigation charts for the Cumberland River, Nashville District, from Mouth to Burnside, [Ky], produced by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Contains 74 charts.

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Typed manuscripts, pamphlets, postcards, and maps, relating to radio and television stations in Southeast Missouri, including KGMO radio, and KFVS radio and television.

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Navigation charts for the Ohio River, Louisville District from Madison, [In], to Cairo, [Il], produced by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Containing 84 charts.

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Broadside listing candidates in the National Union Party or Missouri Radical Party election, and candidates running in Cape Girardeau County elections.