Box 1737

Souvenir pocket directory (16p) containing a subject listing of “reliable” businesses in the city of Cape Girardeau, showing locations, with advertisements for local merchants. A one-page narrative essay provides an overview of the business life of the city.

Holograph and typed manuscripts, original and photocopied, and Reader’s Digest reprint on the history of gardens in the Cape Girardeau area, including the rose gardens.

Bound report (95p) prepared by the Division of Science and Mathematics at Southeast Missouri State University for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers on the quality of water in the Cape Girardeau-Jackson area.

Eleven adhesive commemorative stamps featuring nine different scenes of buildings in Cape Girardeau, [Mo] and Southeast Missouri State University campus.

Illustrated pamphlets (3) relating the history of public libraries in Cape Girardeau, and focusing on the Carnegie Public Library, which opened in 1922; and pamphlet promoting approval of library tax so the library would remain eligible for state and federal aid.

Photocopied typescript (3p) possibly by William [Kaempfer], City Clerk, Cape Girardeau, regarding Frank Carroll, an African-American food vendor in the city.