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Programs (16p) from the city picnic held at Fairground Park, the proceeds from which benefited the Community Band. Lists events and sponsors.

Research materials from Drum’s graduate thesis project at Southeast Missouri State University, an historic site survey of Cape Girardeau County, which excluded Cape Girardeau and Jackson, with the exception of the Oliver House in Jackson. Includes drafts of the survey, photographs, newspaper clippings, maps, and other research materials.

Workbook showing study of Laura A. Cramer, a student at the Missouri State Normal School—Third District, preparing to become a kindergarten teacher. Cramer taught at the Old Lorimier School in Cape Girardeau and later in St. Louis. Also includes letter from Cramer to Kent Library recounting her years as a student at Old Normal. *also listed as University Archives Collection

Commencement programs, commencement invitations, and brochures for the Law Enforcement Academy, a program offered at Southeast Missouri State University to provide basic and specialized training for regional law enforcement officers.

Scrapbook of news clippings about prominent men and businesses in 1920s Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Bound transcript (58p) and recordings of interviews between local League of Women Voters members and Southeast Missouri State University history graduate student, Lisa Marie Graham.

Records of the League of Women Voters of Southeast Missouri concerning league administration and service programs organized by the league.

Bound volume (60p) of poems by Abernathy, member of the Southeast Missouri State Teachers College class of 1935. Poems published in “Our Dumb Animals,” the Capaha Arrow and read on station WEW, St. Louis University, 1948.

This collection contains a letter written by Prospect K. Robbins (1788-1847) of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri to Benjamin S. Brown Esq. (1805-1838) of Mount Vernon, Ohio. P.K. Robbins was a surveyor of the Louisiana Purchase, specifically the modern day counties of Audraine, Boone, and Callaway. The collection also has a textbook entitled "A Treatise on Surveying." The book contains information and techniques that are similar to what Robbins would have used in his profession.

This collection contains 1 diploma case and three diplomas from the Bock Family. The diplomas date 1933, 1963, and 2010. Also included is a copy of an informational brochure on requesting donations for the Annual Fund for Southeast Missouri State University. It includes photographs of the members of the Bock Family who attended the school. These include Thomas Houston Lewis (1888), Catharine Lewis Bock (1933), Lewis Edgar Bock (1963), and Richard Lewis Bock (2010).