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Happy Birthday, America!
For the 250th birthday celebration of the United States of America, we are resharing this wonderful 2014 blog post by Archives and Special Collections’ employee Abigail Proehl about our music book collection: American History in the Mahoney Music Collection This week we celebrate the birth of our nation, with this Friday marking the 238th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.…
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Clay County Farm Ownership Atlas of Clay County South Dakota
The Archives and Special Collections has a 1937 atlas by the Clay County Planning Board. It depicts the county after the stock market crash of 1929 and during the Great Depression. The maps show parcels of land owned by private individuals, the Federal Land Bank, other banks, insurance companies, land associations, etc. “The Clay County Farm Ownership Atlas was sponsored by the Clay County…
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Bill Book from the First Session, Legislative Assembly, South Dakota, 1890
The Archives and Special Collections has a compilation (i.e. bill book) of South Dakota Legislature House Bills from 1890. D. M. Inman’s signature is on the first page. South Dakota became a state in 1889, and the state’s first session of the legislative assembly met in 1890. Darwin M. Inman (1838-1913) was a businessman, politician and educator from Vermillion. He served as a representative…
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The Reading Room in the I. D. Weeks Library will be closed May 20, 2026.
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Bad eggs
Verso of receipt This gem presented itself in the Mary Jane Fine Collection of the Thomas Hunter Diaries in the Richardson Collection. Printed on the back of a receipt from the G.F. Buche Co. Store, it explains the “ins and outs” of egg trading. The purchase price of a dozen eggs by Buche’s was 9 to 10 cents in 1934.
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"W.L. Dow, Architect" Advance Screening
The University of South Dakota Alumni Association, Department of History and University Libraries, along with the Clay County Historic Preservation Commission and the Clay County Historical Society, will host a screening of the documentary, “W. L. Dow, Architect” at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, May 3 at the Muenster University Center 216A on the USD campus. “W. L. Dow, Architect” will air May 6 on South…
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Oscar Howe Collection
Oscar Howe with students at the University of South Dakota The Oscar Howe Collection-Photographs Finding Aid The Oscar Howe Collection, Photograph Collection has been processed and is available for research. The photographic materials are just one portion of this much larger collection that is still working its way through processing. Artist Laureate of South Dakota Oscar Howe andGovernor Ralph…
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Ella Deloria
Ella Deloria (1888 or 1889 – 1971) was born on the Yankton Reservation. She was “a teacher, speaker, author, and researcher in linguistics and anthropology” (Murray 1974, viii). She was associated with the University of South Dakota from 1961 to 1964 (Murray 1974, 146-149). The Chilson Collection contains the following books that she authored, coauthored, or edited: Boas, Franz and Ella Deloria.…
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The theme of this year's National Library Week is "Find Your Joy."
I find my joy browsing the library stacks. This month, I looked for books with fore-edge printing and fore-edge painting. These are methods of applying images to the edges of book pages. Sometimes the image is visible when the book is closed, and sometimes the image is only visible when the pages are fanned. Fore-edge is the edge of a book opposite the spine or the bound edge. I found fore-edge…
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Happy National Library Week April 19-25, 2026
A library book that is 50+ years overdue is a common trope in books and movies. Though it is not common here, the library recently (and happily) received an overdue book that was checked out for 56 years. This image of the check-out slip for the overdue book shows that it was checked out in 1970. Guinness world record for the most years that a returned library book had been overdue is 288 years.
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The Reading Room in the I. D. Weeks Library will be closed April 10, 2026.
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South Dakota Centennial Celebration: 1889-1989
In an article published in South Dakota History on December 27, 1989, Governor George S. Mickelson reflected on the first hundred years of South Dakota as a State. Governor Mickelson remarked that President Benjamin Harrison signed proclamations in 1889 forming four states: South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington. To commemorate the 100th birthday of South Dakota, the South Dakota…
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The Reading Room in the I. D. Weeks Library will be closed April 10, 2026.
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The Reading Room in the I. D. Weeks Library will be closed April 10, 2026.
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Vermillion and Vicinity: A view from 1901
Vermillion and vicinity – RD12124 – USD – Richardson Collection – Digital Library of South Dakota (DLSD) In late March to early April of 1881, catastrophe struck Vermillion, Dakota Territory then located on a peninsula between the Vermillion and Missouri Rivers. Large ice floes and heavy snow melts destroyed three-quarters of the city. In addition, the flood caused the Missouri River and…
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Diary entry for this day 135 years ago
Frank Blair kept this diary while he was a student at the University of Dakota (later called the University of South Dakota) from 1887 to 1891.
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New Finding Aids at the Archives and Special Collections 2025
Finding aids finished during 2025: Shane Balkowitsch Ambrotypes Robert Blachnik photographs Rex Butler Collection of Henry and Frank H. Butler photographs Lea Rosson DeLong papers on Wilber M. Stilwell Dephane Hammond papers Nikki Heidepriem collection on Edith and Margaret Reeves Gilbert Monell Hitchcock papers Richard Holm notebook Arthur Leslie Keith papers Henry Langford Loucks…
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