South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections

- Underpinnings For New SD Library Being Drilled.
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota. Office of the State Engineer; Sherer, Frank; Layne Minnesota Company (Minneapolis, Minn.); Welfl Construction Company; Building construction -- United States -- South Dakota -- Pierre -- 1970-1980
- 131 caissons ranging in depth from 15 to 47 feet will be drilled and filled with concrete for the underpinning of the new state library building.
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- G-Men Arrive to Check Area for Kennedy Trip; Jet-Age White House Visits in Pierre as Reporter Tours President’s Craft
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Air Force One (Presidential aircraft); Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Secret Service (U.S.)
- 2 articles from the Pierre Capital Journal - Oahe1962-08-07#1 is about the preparations made for President John F. Kennedy to attend the Oahe Dam dedication ceremonies. In Oahe1962-08-07#2, a journalist tours Air Force One.
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- Statewide fisheries surveys 2011: survey of public waters, region IV, lakes
- Fisheries -- South Dakota -- Statistics -- Periodicals; Fishery management -- South Dakota -- Periodicals; Fishing surveys -- South Dakota -- Periodicals.
- Fish community surveys were conducted by the South Dakota Department of Game Fish and Parks (SDGFP) to monitor fisheries populations throughout Region IV, which is comprised of 13 counties in northeastern South Dakota. Information presented in this...
- SD State Agencies
- Plat of the Oahe Housing Unit that will rise in Northwest Pierre
- Housing -- South Dakota -- Maps; Oahe Reservoir (S.D.); United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
- A plat map of the Oahe housing unit in Northwest Pierre, including layout of new streets.
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- Engineers Begin Oahe Tunnel
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.); Melsha, Joe
- A tunnel will be built to determine the condition of the shale beds as part of the preconstruction activities on the Oahe dam.
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- 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.
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- Thoen Stone Mute Witness to Early Hills Massacre
- Thoen Stone; Thoen, Louis; Thoen, Ivan; Adams Museum (Deadwood, S.D.)
- An article describing the Thoen Stone, its discovery and plans for a monument at the site.
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- Big Job Precedes S.D. Irrigation
- Irrigation -- South Dakota; Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.) Oahe Unit; United States. Bureau of Reclamation
- An editorial encouraging South Dakotans interested in irrigation to organize irrigation districts.
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- Prices Offered For Oahe Housing Area Acceptable to General Services
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Housing -- South Dakota; Pierre (S.D.); General Services Administration
- Bids by all 50 bidders on houses and 44 vacant lots were accepted by GSA (General Services Administration) for the Oahe housing area in northwest Pierre.
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- South Dakota conservation digest, July-August 2012
- Wildlife conservation -- South Dakota -- Periodicals; Conservation of natural resources -- South Dakota -- Periodicals
- Bimonthly publication, plus one special edition, by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks.
- SD State Agencies
- South Dakota conservation digest, July-August 2011
- Wildlife conservation -- South Dakota -- Periodicals; Conservation of natural resources -- South Dakota -- Periodicals
- Bimonthly publication, plus one special edition, by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks.
- SD State Agencies
- South Dakota conservation digest, May-June 2012
- Wildlife conservation -- South Dakota -- Periodicals; Conservation of natural resources -- South Dakota -- Periodicals
- Bimonthly publication, plus one special edition, by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks.
- 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.
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- Historic Cavalry Buildings At Ft. Meade Disappearing
- Fort Meade (S.D.); Fort Meade VA Medical Center (Fort Meade, S.D.); United States. Army. Cavalry, 4th; Comanche (Horse); Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933; Norbeck, Peter, 1870-1936; Case, Francis H. (Francis Higbee), 1896-1962; Pick, Lewis A. (Lewis...
- Fort Meade is being transformed into a Veterans Administration neuropsychiatric hospital. The article also includes a history of Fort Meade.
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- State Librarian to Head Regional Library Group
- South Dakota State Library; Anderson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vincent); Mountain Plains Library Association
- Herschel V. (“Vince”) Anderson elected vice president elect of the Mountain-Plains Library Association.
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- Magnitude, Value Of Oahe Dam Outlined by Engineer
- Oahe Dam (S.D.); Missouri River Basin Project (U.S.). Oahe Unit; Dam construction -- South Dakota -- 1950-1960; Siebert, John
- John Siebert, area engineer for the Oahe Dam construction speaks on the value and magnitude of the Oahe Dam being constructed on the Missouri River.
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- Mercedes Mackay Honored in Retirement
- MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987; South Dakota Library Association; Associated School Boards of South Dakota; South Dakota Association for the Blind
- Mercedes MacKay has received honors from the State Association of the Blind, the South Library Association, and the Associated School Boards of South Dakota.
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- Hostess
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; MacKay, Mercedes B. (Mercedes Belle), 1904-1987
- Mercedes MacKay is shown at the coffee service at the golden anniversary conference.
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- Groundbreaking Ceremonies Held For New State Library
- South Dakota State Library; Kneip, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1933-1987; Anderson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vincent); Kocourek, Mrs. Ardeth; Welfl Construction Co.; Building construction -- United States -- South Dakota -- Pierre -- 1970-1980
- Photo of the official groundbreaking ceremony for the new South Dakota State Library.
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- Site Being Readied For Next State Building
- South Dakota State Library; Hilger’s Gulch (Pierre, S.D.); R.E. Rawlins Municipal Library (Pierre, S.D.); Building construction -- United State -- South Dakota -- Pierre -- 1970-1980
- Photograph and caption describing the beginning of the construction of the new State Library building.
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