Personal, business and legal correspondence, financial and legal papers, school, church and genealogical records, scrapbooks, photographs, postcards, and artifacts from the four allied families of Friend, Bollinger, Heise and Heldermon of Southeast Missouri. The Friends were a pioneering family in Scott County, first settling there in 1796, near Benton.

One scrapbook made up of the pages of The Louden Machinery Company Catalog of Fairfield, Iowa. Yearbooks include a 1921 Oranite (Oran Public School) and a 1923 Southeast Missouri State Teachers College Sagamore. Also included are three individual photographic albums, primarily of the Friend and Bollinger families, and an original Goodspeed’s History of Southeast Missouri, 1888-1923.