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Articles regarding the history of Cape Girardeau's library initial plans, construction, growth, events, and staff. Also includes a booklet about Capes Carnegie Library (the original public library).

Abstract Copy of Colonel Murdoch’s reminiscences (46p) about his service in the American Civil War. Murdoch was first commissioned as a Captain in the Union Army, Co. A, 50th Infantry Volunteers, and in 1861 became Lt. Colonel of the Fremont Rangers. He commanded Forts A, B, C, and D in Cape Girardeau. Includes information on the organization of the Fremont Rangers and the Missouri State Militia, and Union and Confederate activities in Stoddard, New Madrid, Bollinger, Wayne, Madison, Perry, Scott,...

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Programs from the entertainments hosted by the literary societies – Zenonian, Webster, Sorosis and Benton – at Missouri State Normal School—Third District.

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Articles and photographs concerning towns, counties, and people of Missouri.

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Invitations, programs, official seal, and illustrated printed booklet (23 pg) prepared in conjunction with the 100th anniversary celebration of the Little River Drainage District Corporation, held at Kent Library, Southeast Missouri State University, November 4, 2007.

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The circuit court order that extended the corporate life of the Little River Drainage District.

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Mimeograph typescript (5p) providing a brief history of the establishment of the district and information on its boundaries and major figures. Author is unknown.

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Records of the Little River Drainage District Corporation, the agency responsible for constructing and maintaining the system of diversion channel, ditches, levees, and catch-basins that drain the swamp and overflowed lands of southeast Missouri, 1907-present. Records include correspondence, minutes, financial and legal papers, field books, maps, publications, photographs, and artifacts.

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Article with seven short stories relating to Missouri’s history.

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Scrapbook (22 pages) containing yearbooks from the Cape Girardeau County Women’s Extension Club, Achievement Day programs, group photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera documenting the activities of the Spring Valley Home Economics Extension Club.