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Title: Business District of Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 1947
Description: Business District of Cape Girardeau looking West along Broadway. Pretentious Southeast Missourian building in lower left foreground. Steepled church in distance is Trinity Lutheran church, one of thirty churches within city limits.

Title: West Park Mall Construction, Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 1979-05-17
Description: Construction of the West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau, which will feature the first Famous-Barr store in Missouri outside the Greater St. Louis area, began Wednesday and is expected to be completed in two years. The 600,000-square-foot shopping center is being built by the May Stores Shopping Centers of St. Louis and Drury Industries of Cape Girardeau. The mall is expected to generate 500 jobs and provide the city of Cape Girardeau with $700,000 in sales tax revenue.

Title: Fireman Strike Gathering, Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 1979
Description: At the County Jail, Cape Girardeau firefighters gathered across from the county jail at Jackson Friday after their nine-mile march in a fain attempt to have themselves arrested for violating a court order against their strike. The firemen returned to work at 7 p.m., however, after the city accepted their proposal for bringing a federal mediator into the dispute over wage and benefit increases.

Title: Fireman Marching in Strike, Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 1979
Description: Striking Cape Girardeau firemen march toward the county jail in Jackson Friday in an attempt to have themselves arrested for violating a court order against the strike. The sheriff, however, refused to arrest the firemen and their supporters. The firemen have been on strike since Wednesday.

Title: Wathen-Ranney House, Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 1956-03-18
Description: Photo of the Wathen-Ranney House in a snowy March, built in 1839

Title: Color World, Cape Girardeau, MO
Description: Photo of building wreckage, with a paint sign that has the text "Cover the Earth" depicting a paint can pouring paint over a globe. This is in front of a store room that is in shambles, and broken cinder blocks and concrete all around it.

Title: Bolduc-LeMeilleur House, Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 1983-08-10, 1983-08-12
Description: Photo of The Bolduc-LeMeilleur House, built in 1792, which will be open to the public during the 18th annual Jour de Fete in Ste. Genevieve, August 13 and 14 1983.

Title: Cape Girardeau, MO Cement Plant
Date: 1981-05-4
Description: New Cement Plant: Marquette County's new $102 million cement plant (left) went into production last week at Cape Girardeau. The 1-million-ton-per-year facility is among the most energy and cost-efficient cement plants in the country. In the photo above, Pat Jarrett, plant manager; and Phil Gutmann, a Gulf & Western Natural Resources Group executive, observe the kiln firing at the new plant.

Title: Cape Girardeau, MO Heritage Museum Article
Date: 1995-06-18
Description: Newspaper piece about Rush Limbaugh's fame drawing tourism to Cape Girardeau, as it was his hometown and there were objects of his in the Cape River Heritage Museum.

Title: Cape Girardeau, MO Cement Plant
Date: 1981-05-4
Description: Marquette County new $102 million cement plant, Cape Girardeau, MO.

Title: Cape Girardeau, MO Basement Fire
Date: 1982-04
Description: Burned Out Basement - Cape Girardeau Fire Chief Charles Mills, left, holds a plate containing three cookies and a snack cake found near an apparently abandoned boy who was rescued from a basement fire Tuesday. Police say the boy, who was found unconscious at the foot of the steps, right, is in a coma and remains in critical condition. Police have charged the boy's mother with abandonment.

Title: Fairground Park, Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 1943-01-31
Description: General View of Beautiful Fairground Park at Cape Girardeau, MO., 1843 spring base of the Browns. The principal part of the Browns' training will be done on the baseball field shown across the lake. The farthest part of the outfield from the plate is 500 feet. The Administration Building of Southeast Missouri State Teachers' College rises up in the upper right-hand corner.

Title: Cape Girardeau, MO Flooding
Date: 1986-05-16
Description: Tornadoes followed by flash floods swept through southeastern Missouri, killing four and injuring at least 35. Downtown Cape Girardeau was clogged with vehicles stranded by the flooding. Two of the dead, a man 56 and a woman 76 drowned when they left their stalled truck at a Cape Girardeau intersection, and were swept away by flood waters.

Title: Ozark Stone Jail of Centerville, MO
Date: 1936-05-27
Description: Where He'll Be Kept - In this stone jail at Centerville, Mo., will be kept Robert (Bobby) Camden, known both as "Robin Hood" and the "Scourge" of the Ozarks, when he is brought to the isolated village to face a murder charge, along with five other defendants. Camden, already is in the State Penitentiary at Jefferson City under 30-year sentence for robbery. The six are charged with the slaying of Rev. James A. Radford, hill preacher.

Title: Chapel Hill Memorial, Cedar Hills MO
Date: 1973-07-3
Description: Photograph of the Chapel Hill Memorial Garden - an American flag is placed in a vase of lilies above a gravestone with flags flying in the background.

Title: Ozark Spring and Mill
Date: 1929
Description: A famous Ozark spring and an historic mill - The Reed Spring near Centerville, Mo., in Reynolds County, is not as well known as several others in the state but it flows a huge amount of water and turns the water wheel of an old mill which is said to be more than 100 years old. The mill was reconstructed a few years ago and instead of grinding meal it now operates an electric light and ice plant

Title: Reed Spring, Centerville MO
Date: 1929
Description: Where the reed spring comes forth from the side of a hill - it forms a sort of pond in a basin on the side of a hill before it flows of through a trough to the old mill. Water cress grows along the edges of the pond which is stocked with fish.

Title: Centerville, MO General Store
Date: 1946-07-21
Description: Photograph of the outside of F. M. Hunter's General Store - there are children playing outside and a group of men sitting on the stairs.

Title: Chesterfield, MO Incorporation Debate (3)
Date: 1986-10-23, 1986-10-27
Description: A general view inside the doubletree conference center in which the debate on the incorporation of Chesterfield was held.

Title: Chesterfield Civil Preparedness Specialist
Date: 1985-04-9, 1985-05-26
Description: Bob Hornsey, Civil Preparedness Specialist, operates a control panel for emergency broadcast sirens.

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