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Photographs and negatives created by Brooks, documenting small, rural towns in Southeast Missouri, including Advance, Bloomfield, Chaonia, Fulton, Harviell, Patterson, Taft and Williamsville.

Letters, newspaper clippings, photographs (13) and yearbooks (2) relating to Bowden, a prominent African-American educator in Southeast Missouri and principal of the Lincoln High School, Charleston, [Mo], for 23 years. Yearbooks are from Lincoln High School (1950) and Lincoln University, Jefferson City, [Mo] (1950).

Ephemera from Daues, a student at the Missouri State Normal School at Cape Girardeau (class of 1898), including photographs, a program, and letter of recommendation from Edward H. Engelmann, Clerk of the Cape Girardeau Court of Common Pleas. *also listed as University Archives Collection

Typed manuscript (1p) on “The Early Telegraph in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,” by Dillon, chronicling the history of the first telegraph lines running between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis in 1850, the impact of the American Civil War, and line construction by the Western Union Telegraph Company in the 1870's.

Microfilm copies of the bills of lading, shipping documents of receipt, for Sand Bar Landing [Il] from March 29, 1893-May 8, 1895.

Recording of interview with Charles Lamb, Industrial Arts Instructor at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College from 1901 until his retirement in 1952. When he began teaching, his duties were that of “manual training.” In this interview, which took place on July 30, 1952, he describes his teaching role as well as the construction of various buildings on campus, including Academic Hall, and the fire of the Old Normal building. Disc 1 running time: 00:50:32. Disc 2 running time: 00:40:28.

Bookstamp used by prominent rare book collector Charles Luce Harrison.

Correspondence and ephemera of Charles Milford Hall, a former student and assistant teacher of mathematics at the Missouri State Normal School—Third District. Correspondence with Normal School president R. C. Norton and faculty member J. S. McGhee, pertaining to the sale of lots, allegedly where Leming Hall was built. *oversized

Financial ledger of Swob, of De Soto, [Mo], who worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. In the ledger, Swob records the jobs he performed for the railroad, the amounts of pay he received, information on his war bonds, unemployment insurance, his income and expenditures, and the names of his family members and their dates of birth.

Correspondence between Southeast Missouri State Teachers College President Joseph Serena, the Alumni Association, and the sons of Lucius Cheney, first president of the Southeast Missouri State Normal School –Lyman, Jerome, and George -- pertaining to their father, the school’s history and Jerome’s invitation to speak at commencement in 1928.