South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections

- South Dakota 2013 highway safety plan
- Traffic safety -- South Dakota
- This is an annual traffic safety report for South Dakota for the year 2013.
- SD State Agencies
- Statewide fisheries surveys, management plans region II, South Dakota annual report
- Dingell-Johnson Project (S.D.); Fishery management -- South Dakota -- Periodicals; Fisheries -- South Dakota -- Periodicals; Fish stocking -- South Dakota -- Periodicals
- Report containing five-year fisheries management plans for waters in South Dakota Management Region II during the period of January 2011 through December 2017.
- SD State Agencies
- Legislative manual, South Dakota 1903
- LRC. ; South Dakota – Registers.; South Dakota – Politics and government – Handbooks, manuals, etc.; South Dakota. Legislature – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- The Legislative Manual, commonly known as the Blue Book, is a comprehensive reference source on state government that is published every two years according to South Dakota Codified Law. It contains information on elected state officials, judges,...
- SD State Agencies II
- Greetings, Mr. President – Pierre and South Dakota Welcome You
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project; Dams – South Dakota; Reservoirs -- South Dakota; Pierre (S.D.); United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; Flood control--Law and legislation--United States; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald),...
- This special edition of The Pierre State News contains three articles and photographs concerning President Kennedy’s visit to the Oahe Dam.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- 50th Anniversary – South Dakota Library Commission Conference for Trustees, Librarians and Friends of the Library
- South Dakota State Library Commission
- Brochure for the 50th Anniversary – South Dakota Library Commission Conference for Trustees, Librarians and Friends of the Library
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Library Expansion Planned for State of South Dakota
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota Library Commission; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; United States. Library Services and Construction Act; Libraries – South Dakota; Bookmobiles – South Dakota
- The article describes how the state hopes to establish the State Library as a central unit for classifying and cataloging books for South Dakota libraries. The State Library would also control a system of branch libraries which would use...
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Legislative Update – 1973 – Marvis Hogen
- Hogen, Marvis; South Dakota. Legislature; South Dakota State Library
- A legislative update by Rep. Hogen talking about the loss of federal funding for the State Library and the letter writing and call-in campaign for the State of South Dakota to replace those funds.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Inventory of Nesting Raptors in South Dakota
- Birds of prey -- South Dakota; Wildlife conservation -- South Dakota; Pittman-Robertson Project (S.D.)
- In the spring of 2011, an aerial survey was conducted in northwest South Dakota for nesting raptors. Species surveyed included: bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis), great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), golden...
- SD State Agencies
- Oahe Dam shift rules ‘normal’ by review panel
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project: Dams – South Dakota; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; Casagrande, Arthur; Johnson, Wendell
- Data collected between 1952 and 1970 has revealed a small portion of the dam has settled more than other areas of the dam.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Dam Closed, Giant Oahe Reservoir Begins Filling
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project; Dams – Missouri River; Rockefeller, Winthrop, 1912-1973; South Dakota. Governor (1955-1959: Foss); South Dakota. Governor (1943-1947: Sharpe); Hammond, Colonel D.G.; United States. Army. Corps of...
- 15,000 people attended a ceremony celebrating the dam closure. Speakers included Winthrop Rockefeller; Governor Joe Foss, and former Governor M. Q. Sharpe.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Find Wood Over 25,000 Years Old In State
- Fossils -- South Dakota; Over, William H. (William Henry), 1866-1956;
- Wood dating back 25,000 – 30,000 years has been discovered in newly dug wells in eastern South Dakota. Samples indicate the wood came from trees buried by glaciers.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Wandering dinosaur bones back home – Mines museum makes trade
- Edmontosaurus; Denver Museum of Natural History; Princeton University. Museum of Natural History.; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Badlands South Dakota; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Museum of Geology; Bump, James; Horace Twito...
- After 28 years and a four-cornered museum trade, bones of a trachodon are being returned to the Museum at the School of Mines.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- New Era of S.D. Progress starts today at Oahe Event: Pick – Case speak on Program at newest damsite
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Dam construction -- South Dakota -- 1940-1950; Case, Francis H. (Francis Higbee), 1896-1962.; Pick, General Lewis A.; Prentiss, Col. L.W.; Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program;
- Groundbreaking ceremonies held at Oahe damsite, the largest construction job ever undertaken in South Dakota .
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Famous South Dakota Lands Go Into Oahe Reservoir
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project; Dams – South Dakota; Philip, Scotty, 1858-1911; Wyman, Judge A. Lee; United States. Attorney (South Dakota); Flynn, Leo P.
- Condemnation proceedings have started against 5770 acres for the development of the Oahe Reservoir. Condemned lands include part of Scotty Philip’s buffalo pasture.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Fort Sisseton, Like Fort Meade, Saw No Battles but Made History Anyway
- Fort Sisseton (S.D.); Fort Wadsworth (S.D.); Rose, Robert; Holland, Marvin; Clowney, Major John; Brown, Sam; United States. Work Projects Administration; South Dakota. Dept. of Game, Fish, and Parks
- The article describes the present Fort Sisseton State Park and also provides a history of the fort.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Popularity Grows – Fort Sisseton Part Of Heritage
- Fort Sisseton (S.D.); South Dakota. Dept. of Game, Fish, and Parks
- The article describes what is available for visitors at Fort Sisseton and also provides a history of the fort.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Jumbo’s Front End
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project; Dams – South Dakota
- The photo and caption describe the mechanical mole used to dig holes for the Oahe dam outlet tunnels.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Unity – Key To Progress
- Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.) Oahe Unit; University of South Dakota. School of Business; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; South Dakota State University. Office of Remote Sensing
- Ben Reifel discusses continued development for South Dakota including the Oahe irrigation Project, the University of South Dakota’s School of Business, the South Dakota School of Mines, and South Dakota State University’s institute of remote...
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- ‘Eunik,’ World’s Largest Truck, To Get Test Run At Oahe Dam
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Dams – South Dakota; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.; Western Contracting Corporation, Sioux City (Ia.); Everist, Hubert H.; Collins, Carl (Rip); Sibert, John W.
- A giant earth mover, nicknamed “Eunik”, will be given test runs at the Oahe Dam. Eunik weighs 78 ½ tons and is rated to haul 80 cubic yards of earth.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files
- Pierre Shale At Oahe Must Be Protected Against Drying
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project: Dams – South Dakota
- During the construction of the Oahe Dam, an air conditioning system protects the Pierre shale from drying out.
- South Dakota State Library Vertical Files