Contains various documents of Cape Girardeau and surrounding towns and transcripts of an interview with and three biographies of AMS, Jr. Also includes Cape Girardeau County maps.

Contains assorted journals and magazines, such as Missouri Business, Missouri Pharmacist, and The Cape County Journal. The materials primarily include reports and newsletters with articles, AMS Jr.’s awards, appointments to commissions, and biographies about his legal and political careers.

Correspondence, financial records, high school and college papers, campaign materials (1948-1980), case reviews, material related the Missouri Trade Mission in Europe in 1964, photographs of political appearances, family, and Cape Girardeau scenes, interview transcript with Spradling, maps, clippings and publications, documenting Spradling’s career as an attorney in Cape Girardeau and a Missouri State Senator (1952-1976).