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.

Presley Friend’s collection of 351 postcards addressed primarily to Presley with a few unwritten, clean cards, c. 1903-1911.

Contains one black Ansco (Brownie type) roll film camera; a “bellows extension” camera; two strait-edge razors; two pair of reading glasses; a brass plated I.D.L. modern postal scale. Also includes a hook and circle Pocket Balance with inscription “legal use in trade” and a wire rug beater. No dates.

The collection is primarily composed of photographs, business, personal and legal correspondence, bank and insurance records, land deed transfers, and religious records. The collection also contains an extensive compilation of early American postcards, various artifacts, and recorded family histories of the four allied families.

The collection is primarily composed of photographs, business, personal and legal correspondence, bank and insurance records, land deed transfers, and religious records. The collection also contains an extensive compilation of early American postcards, various artifacts, and recorded family histories of the four allied families.

The collection is primarily composed of photographs, business, personal and legal correspondence, bank and insurance records, land deed transfers, and religious records. The collection also contains an extensive compilation of early American postcards, various artifacts, and recorded family histories of the four allied families.

The collection is primarily composed of photographs, business, personal and legal correspondence, bank and insurance records, land deed transfers, and religious records. The collection also contains an extensive compilation of early American postcards, various artifacts, and recorded family histories of the four allied families.

The collection is primarily composed of photographs, business, personal and legal correspondence, bank and insurance records, land deed transfers, and religious records. The collection also contains an extensive compilation of early American postcards, various artifacts, and recorded family histories of the four allied families.

The collection is primarily composed of photographs, business, personal and legal correspondence, bank and insurance records, land deed transfers, and religious records. The collection also contains an extensive compilation of early American postcards, various artifacts, and recorded family histories of the four allied families.

The collection is primarily composed of photographs, business, personal and legal correspondence, bank and insurance records, land deed transfers, and religious records. The collection also contains an extensive compilation of early American postcards, various artifacts, and recorded family histories of the four allied families.