South Dakota State Library: Digital Collections

- 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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- Moving the State Library
- South Dakota State Library; Dakota State College; Madison (S.D.); South Dakota Library Association; Swanson, Mona; Pierre Chamber of Commerce (Pierre, S.D.)
- Moving the South Dakota State Library from Pierre to Madison was proposed in pre-filed legislation for the 1974 legislature.
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- Library Assoc opposes move
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota Library Association; Swanson, Mona; Madison (S.D.)
- The South Dakota Library Association opposed the attempt to move the South Dakota State Library from Pierre to Madison.
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- State office project lags
- South Dakota State Library; Andrews, Gerald; South Dakota. Office of Executive Management. Bureau of Administration; Hilger’s Gulch (Pierre, S.D.)
- The article discusses the construction of the new state library building.
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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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- State Library offers aid to handicapped
- South Dakota State Library; Braille & Talking Book Library (South Dakota State Library); People with visual disabilities--Services for--South Dakota
- The South Dakota State Library offers aid to handicapped readers.
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- Library begins new system
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota. State Publications Depository Program
- The South Dakota State Library establishes system of document depository libraries to make state publications available on a local level to the people of the state.
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- Mellette Woman, Armed with Area Petitions, Leaves for Washington Represents Anti-Oahe Group
- Anti-Oahe Association; Cady, Mrs. Florence; James River Valley (N.D. and S.D.); Oahe Reservoir (S.D.)
- Mrs. Florence Cady, representing the Anti-Oahe Association, preparing to testify at a congressional hearing regarding an irrigation study. The association claims that a sizeable majority of farmers affected by the proposed project oppose the study.
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- They’re putting the plug in Oahe Dam Oahe’s job of closing Missouri nears success
- Missouri River; Foss, Joe, 1915-2003; Oahe Dam (S.D.); Siebert, John; Rockefeller, Winthrop, 1912-1973
- Closure ceremonies for the Oahe Dam held today (August 3, 1958). 12,000 people attending. Joe Foss, Governor of South Dakota and Winthrop Rockefeller, philanthropist of Little Rock, Arkansas featured speakers.
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- 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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- Oahe Unit in South Dakota
- Irrigation projects -- South Dakota; Irrigation -- South Dakota -- Maps.
- Map of the proposed Oahe Irrigation Unit in South Dakota.
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- Teletype Hastens Library Functions
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; South Dakota State University; University of South Dakota
- Teletype was installed at the State Library. Requests can be sent to the library from other teletypes located a state universities.
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- Mammoth Oahe Dam Now Over 77 Per Cent Complete
- Dam construction -- South Dakota -- 1950-1960; Oahe Dam (S.D.); Siebert, John W., Jr.; Woodbury, Col. Harry G.; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
- Full page of photos of the service gate hoist, power intake towers, outlet works intake towers, outlet works control structure, aerial view of progress on the Oahe Dam, powerhouse and surge tanks, and stilling basin. Oahe project data and article...
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- 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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- Oahe Irrigation Project Prospects To Be Discussed At Meetings Here
- Irrigation projects -- South Dakota; Irrigation -- South Dakota; Missouri River Basin Project; Holum, Kenneth; ; McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922- ; South Dakota Reclamation and Water Development Association; South Dakota Irrigators...
- A two day meeting held to discuss the Oahe Irrigation project. Senator George McGovern and Kenneth Holum, Assistant Secretary of Interior for Power and Water, to speak.
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- Break Ground For New S.D. State Library
- South Dakota State Library; South Dakota State Library Commission; Kneip, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1933-1987; Anderson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vincent); Kocourek, Mrs. Frank; Mikelson, Senator Grace; Colby, Jane; Peterson, Rachel; Paulson,...
- Ground breaking ceremonies were held in Pierre on August 19 for the new state library building.
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- Uncover Fossil in S. D. Badlands
- Badlands South Dakota; Brontotherium; Martin, Harold; Bump, James; Murphy, Ike; Keester, Harry; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Museum of Geology; Scenic (S.D.)
- Discovery of a fossil giant Brontotherium. As an excavation was taking place of the skull of this fossil, it was discovered the it was the complete fossilized skeleton. This fossil was discovered in the Badlands, near Scenic, SD.
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- Recording Badlands Fossils Painstaking Job
- Badlands South Dakota; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Museum of Geology; Green, Morton; Macdonald, Dr. J.R.; Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- South Dakota
- An article explaining the painstaking detail which goes into collecting fossils in the Badlands for transporting them to a museum.
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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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- Lincoln County Gravel Pits Yield Fossils from Pre-Glacial Animals
- Over, William H. (William Henry), 1866-1956; Lincoln County (S.D.); Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- South Dakota
- Gravel pits in Lincoln County SD, opened up by WPA projects, are yielding fossil remains of pre-glacial animals.
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