June 18, 2015

Captured on Film #16

Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

Published Nov. 24, 1987. Students in Mrs. Nora Stranahan's special class at Washington School worked long and hard making Indian headdresses, shakers, vests and an Indian totem pole in observance of Thanksgiving. Students, from left, with their cosumes, were, front row: Ben Allen, Tommy Warner and Tyron Deberry. Back row: Krista Spies, April Wachter, Teresa Chiles, Latoya Wilson and Shameca Parron. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)

Published Feb. 27, 1971. Members of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce 1971 Board of Directors were, front, from left, George H. Wrape, Paul W. Stehr, Harold D. Kuehle, Vernon V. Fee; back, from left, A.R. Meyer, Vernon H. Landgraf, Paul B. Loiseau, Richard D. Jones, Allen Robinson and Wayne L. Martin. Not present when the picture was taken were Charles A. Hood, Clarence L. Shirrell, Gilbert W. Logel, Charles L. Drury and Gary Rust. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)

Published May 7, 1978. The varied day-to-day functions of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce were the work of Robert B. Hendrix, executive director, and Linda Minner, administrative assistant. Here they went over one of the many points of business that crossed their desks each day at the Chamber headquarters at 601 N. Kingshighway. Hendrix, who joined the Chamber staff in 1972, previously had been with the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Minner, who attended Central High School and Southeast Missouri State University, had been with the Chamber for nine years. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)

An Army truck, filled with soldiers, turned south on Sprigg Street at Morgan Oak. The photograph is undated. (G.D. Fronabarger - Southeast Missourian archive photo)

Published March 30, 1990. The Cape Girardeau County Commission proclaimed April as Earthquake Awareness Month "to encourage citizens to prepare now to protect themselves" from earthquakes and other potential disasters. From left were Commissioner E.C. Younghouse, Michael Niemeier, assistant coordinator of emergency preparedness; Brian Miller, coordinator; Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep, V.J. Miget, emergency communications coordinator, amateur radio; and Martha Vandivort, deputy coordinator of emergency preparedness. (Southeast Missourian archive photo)

Gary Mueller, left, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Mueller of St. Louis, and Kevin Wells, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wells of Cape Girardeau, practiced guitar in the chapel of St. Vincent's College in April 1979. (Phil Nash ~ Southeast Missourian archive photo)

This World War II-era photograph shows members of the Teachers College's Navy V-12 program assembled in long lines at Houck Stadium. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive photo)

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Captured on Film galleries feature Southeast Missourian photographs taken mainly in the 1960s through the 1990s, before the age of digital photography. Comments or questions about these images should be directed to librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com.

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