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Southeast Missouri-Northeast Arkansas Promotions |
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1910-circa 1920 |
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Extent:
15 items
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Accession Number:
2008.032.
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Abstract:
Pamphlets and scrapbook advertising settlement in southeast Missouri and
northeast Arkansas. The
pamphlets were produced by real estate firms, Frisco rail lines, and the
Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau. They discuss topics such as drainage, roads, climate, soil,
crops, churches, schools, livestock, land values as well as contain
railroad maps of the region. |
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Processed by: Amber Miranda, January, 2008
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Repository:
Special Collections and Archives, Southeast Missouri State University
Phone: (573)651-2245; Fax: (573)651-2666; Email:
semoarchives@semo.edu
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Provenance: unknown
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Citation:
Southeast Missouri-Northeast Arkansas Promotions, Special Collections
and Archives, Southeast Missouri State University
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Restrictions:
None
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| Historical Note |
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The Little River Drainage District was formed in 1907 in order to drain
the swamplands of Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas. As timber was cleared and the swamps drained, entrepreneurs
encouraged settlement in the newly available agricultural lands. |
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| Scope and Content Note |
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This collection includes one scrapbook
containing clippings about drainage and travel in southern Missouri and
promotional pamphlets promoting the agriculture and settlement of
southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas. Pamphlets represented in this collection
are listed below.
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Rules or Conventions: Finding Aid prepared using DACS |
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Item Listing | |
| Item 001-002 |
From the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau: Southeast Missouri, The Two-Crop System of Southeast
Missouri, South-East Missouri: Where Corn, Wheat, Cotton, Clover and Alfalfa Grow Side by Side,
and Hunting and Fishing Reserve. (2 copies) |
| Items 003-005 |
From C.F. Bruton Real Estate and
Investment Co.: The Modern
Promised Land (2 copies, 2 printings), and a Plat Map of Southeast
Missouri |
| Item 006 |
From the Little River Valley and Land
Company: Southeast
Missouri: The Garden Spot of
the Mississippi Valley. |
| Item 007 |
From the Southeast Realty Company: Southeast Missouri:
Farm and Timber Lands |
| Items 008-009 |
From F.S. Bice: Southeast Missouri:
The Country of No Crop Failures (2 copies) |
| Items 010-012 |
From Frisco Lines: Americas Super-soil along the Frisco Lines, Southeast Missouri,
Northeast Arkansas (2 copies), and The Mississippi Valley Northeaster
Arkansas and Southeastern Missouri |
| Items 013-014 |
From the Southeast and North Arkansas
Highway Association “Brief History of the Southeast and North Arkansas
Highway Association.” (2 copies) |
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MMC 2.5
File 009 |
From C. F. Bruton Plat Map of
Southeast Missouri, undated (oversized)
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Rules or Conventions:
Finding Aid prepared
using DACS |
