Leslie Zeller from Vermillion, South Dakota was honored in 1979 as Eminent Farmer by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Little boy standing on a street with a Denholm sign in one hand and a toy trumpet in the other hand.

Portrait of a young N.E. Hansen wearing a bow tie and a dark jacket

Young Frank Denholm standing by car in winter.

W.F. (Will) Wyatt from Hot Springs, South Dakota was honored in 1941 as Eminent Farmer by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Warren L Wright from Rowena, South Dakota was honored in 1971 as Eminent Farmer by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Congressman Frank Denholm (center to the right of the towers in a light color jacket) with a large group of people looking at a model of the World Trade Center building

Selma Woods, wife of Monroe Woods from Aurora County, South Dakota, was honored in 1973 as Eminent Homemaker by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Harry Witt from Butler, South Dakota was honored in 1972 as Eminent Farmer by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Andrew J. Wimple from Beresford, South Dakota was honored in 1927 as Eminent Farmer by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Mrs. Allan E. Wilson from Mansfield, South Dakota was honored in 1964 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

This collection is composed mainly of Powers' notes and materials he wrote about his history of the college. For the most part, these are draft materials. Also included are some correspondence and some totally unrelated material. This material includes notes about the foundation of the Brookings Public Library, and notes on the World Disarmament Committee, including a petition against conscription signed by many university faculty.

William Dougherty, Richard Kneip's running mate in the 1970 election, isstanding next to a podium holding a framed picture of John Kennedy at a campaign event. The podium has a sign attached to the front saying Vote Dougherty Lt. Governor.

Ethel Wieting, wife of Charles Wieting from Tulare, South Dakota, was honored in 1956 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Niesje Wiersma, wife of John Wiersma from Volga, South Dakota, was honored in 1955 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Titus C. Wentz from Bath, South Dakota was honored in 1933 as Eminent Farmer by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Percy J. Wallace from Britton, South Dakota was honored in 1962 as Eminent Farmer by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Preliminary poster for 'Walk for Justice,' a spiritual walk from Brookings, South Dakota to Canton, South Dakota honor of all women who have lost their lives to sexual violence. The walk ends at the Hiawatha Insane Asylum site in Canton.

Ben Reifel's copy of a book highlighting and explaining Contemporary Teton Dakota Religion and it's history.

Correspondence from Charles Woodard regarding a mini grant that titles, "Voices From Along the River,' which focuses on the new perspective on Lewis and Clark.

This collection is composed of material from Volstorff's personal and professional life. Folders includes personal records retained during her tenure as Dean of Women, records from her work with campus organizations, planning documents, and personal information and correspondence. Also included are Volstorff's many speeches and writings, including research and drafts for her book, Winds of Change.

This collection is composed of manuscripts of books and articles written by Sneve, as well as research materials and correspondence from both publishers and fans. General items include materials related to Sneve's career such as speaking engagements and awards, as well as biographical material, journals, and hard cover copies of many of her books.

Village nestled in the mountains by the Inland Sea in Japan; written in pencil on the back: Along Inland Sea, Japan 1924

Views in the Ottoman empire, chiefly in Caramania, a part of Asia Minor hitherto unexplored : with some curious selections from the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and the celebrated cities of Corinth, Carthage, and Tripoli: from the original drawings in the possession of Sir R. Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople
London: R. Bowyer, 1803

Luigi Mayer was a watercolorist and draftsman of Italian origin. Mayer’s sketches have been cited as the most accurate representations of the Middle East prior to the nineteenth century.

View of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is in the foreground.

Veterans of Foreign Wars color guard at a Memorial Day ceremony in Webster, South Dakota.

This collection encompasses the entire life of Vera Way Marghab. It documents her life before meeting Emile Marghab, including her childhood in South Dakota and her life as a piano student in New York City. Correspondence with her suitors, including her eventual husband Emile, is also included. While the bulk of the collection is related to her personal life, Vera's work at the helm of the Marghab companies is also represented, as are the official records of the businesses. Vera kept copious written records throughout her life, and much of that material is found in this collection. Her personal and business lives were closely related, and this collection represents that, although the material has been divided into logical, manageable parts.

Lena Van Metre, wife of John E. Van Metre from Unityville, South Dakota, was honored in 1936 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Ella Vallery, wife of Peter P. Vallery from Midland, South Dakota, was honored in 1940 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Members of the United States Congress are taking the oath of office

Two men at a construction site in Cuba

Two Karakul fat tailed sheep were white long haired woolen sheep found in Turkistan that N.E. Hansen urged should be imported to the United States for dry hot regions like Arizona and New Mexico

Mrs. Bert Tupper from Junius, South Dakota was honored in 1956 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

List of sessions with Kim Blaeser for handouts at the Tribal Writer's Retreat at Oak Lake, South Dakota.

People standing on the platform by Trans-Siberian Railway in northern China; written in pencil on the back: On Siberian Railway 1924

People on the Trans-Siberian Railway platform by the train in Harbin, China; written in pencil on the back: Hailar 1924

Man walking on the Trans-Siberian Railway platform by the train in Harbin, China; written in pencil on the back: China

Trans-Siberian Railway tracks through the mountains enroute to Saolin in northern China; written in pencil on the back: Railway Saolin 1924

Man hauling dirt in baskets attached to a carrying pole on his shoulders, the dirt is being loaded on to a Trans-Siberian Railway train car near Saolin in northern China; written in pencil on the back: Saolin 1924 North China pear research

Four women on a tour of Washington, D.C.

Marie L. Torvik, wife of W.O. Torvik from Sisseton, South Dakota, was honored in 1938 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Delila Tompkins, wife of Elden Tompkins from Highmore, South Dakota, was honored in 1977 as Eminent Homemaker by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Senator Tip O'Neill speaking at the Sioux Valley Minute Man meeting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota while Congressman Frank Denholm listens in the background

Senator Tip O'Neill and Congressman Frank Denholm visit the Lincoln County Rural Water System site with others in South Dakota

Tip O'Neill and Frank Denholm visit the Lincoln County Rural Water System site with others in South Dakota.

Senator Tip O'Neill and Congressman Frank Denholm visit the Lincoln County Rural Water System site with others in South Dakota

Senator Tip O'Neill and Congressman Frank Denholm visit the Lincoln County Rural Water System site with others in South Dakota

Annie Thoreson from Dell Rapids, South Dakota was honored in 1937 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Olynphious S. Thompson from Baltic, South Dakota was honored in 1937 as Eminent Farmer by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Sampson C. Thomas from Bon Homme County, South Dakota was honored in 1952 as Eminent Farmer by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

The works of William Hogarth: from the original plates, restored by James Heath; with the addition of many subjects not before collected; to which are prefixed, A biographical essay on the genius and productions of Hogarth, and explanations of the subjects of the plates by John Nichols
London: Printed for Baldwin and Cradock by G. Woodfall, [1880?]

William Hogarth was a major figure among eighteenth-century engravers and painters. He excelled at portrait painting and displaying a satiric style.

The Old and New Testament connect in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declension of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the time of Christ
London: Printed for R. Knaplock and J. Tonson, 1718

Humphrey Prideaux served as a lecturer in Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford. Prideaux wrote a number of theological works.

Lawrence D. Test from Davison County, South Dakota was honored in 1939 as Eminent Farmer by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Terrain in Mendoche, northern China that N.E. Hansen traveled in is search for hardy peach trees in 1924; written in pencil on the back: Mendoche, North China 1924

Terrain in Mendoche, northern China that N.E. Hansen traveled in is search for hardy peach trees in 1924; written in pencil on the back: Mendoche, North China 1924

Terrain in Mendoche, northern China that N.E. Hansen traveled in is search for hardy peach trees in 1924; written in pencil on the back: Mendoche, North China 1924

People walking on a street toward a temple in Seoul, Korea in 1924; written in pencil on the back: Seoul, Korea 1924

People walking on a street toward a temple in Seoul, Korea in 1924; written in pencil on the back: Seoul, Korea 1924

People walking on a street toward a temple in Seoul, Korea in 1924; written in pencil on the back: Seoul, Korea 1924

Walter C. Taylor from Rapid City, South Dakota was honored in 1954 as Eminent Farmer by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Cuneiform tablet. Tablet once owned by Daphne Chapman Serle and given to the South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum in 1989 by Chan Shirley. The Museum transferred the tablet to South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections in 2003.

Tablet misidentified as Egyptian heiroglyphics. The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative at the University of California, Los Angeles verified that the script if cuneiform. There is no transcription of this tablet.

Clay Cuneiform tablet.

Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.

Transcribed by Edgar James Banks: Found at Senkereh, the ruin of the Biblical city of Elassar mentioned in Genesis 14:1. This is a first Babylonian dynasty tablet with an inscription containing a contract or business document. It is dated about the time of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 B.C. This king was a contemporary of the Biblical Abraham. It is dated about 2300 B.C.

Description by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA

Provenience: uncertain

Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Material: clay

Language: Sumerian

Genre: Administrative

Obverse: 1. 1(u) 8(disz) x x; 2. x TI A? x TAR? BI?; 3. 1(disz) x 1(disz) masz2 x {d}suen#? ASZ? UD gesz ; A / reverse: date 1. iti lugal? BI? u4 1(u) 5(disz); 2. mu da? x sza3 x x x A? 6(disz)

. Clay Cuneiform tablet.

Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.

Transcribed by Edgar James Banks: Found at Drehem. A temple record, sealed and dated about 2300 B.C.

Description by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA

Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)

Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) / Date referenced: Shu-Suen.01.00.00

Material: clay

Language: Sumerian

Genre: Administrative

Obverse: 1. 6(disz) {gi}pisan im-sar-ra a2 na-da u4 1(u); 2. 4(disz) {gi}pisan im-sar-ra a2 u4 2(disz)-ta; 3. [...] x gesz da; 4. [...] x/ reverse: 1. ki a-gu-ta; 2. kiszib3 hu-wa-wa; 3. sza3 bala-a; 1 line blank; 4. mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal / seal 1: 1. lu2-eb-gal;2. dub-sar; 3. dumu ur-ge6-par4; 4. gudu4 {d}inanna

Clay Cuneiform tablet.

Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.

Transcribed by Dr. Edgar J. Banks in an undated letter: Found at Drehem. A record of the receipt of five oxen apparently for the temple offerings. Also on one edge is written "5 oxen." Dated ca. 2350 B.C.

Description by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA

Provenience: Puzri-Dagan (mod. Drehem)

Period:Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period

Dates referenced: Shu-Suen.03.0323 (us2 year) ?

Material: Clay

Language: Sumerian

Genre: Administrative

Obverse: 1. 7(disz) sila4 4(disz) masz2; 2. u4 4(disz)-kam; 3. ki ab-ba-sa6-ga-ta; 4. in-ta-e3-a / reverse; 1. ; 3-dab5; 1 line blank; 2. iti ezem-mah; 3. mu {d}gu-za {d}en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2

Clay Cuneiform tablet.

Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.

Transcribe d by Dr. by Edgar James Banks in an undated letter: Found at Drehem, a suburb of Nippur, where there was a receiving station for the temple of Bel. The inscription is a bill for 7 lambs and 4 kid goats delivered on the 4th day of the month. It is dated in the last three lines about 2350 B.C., or early in the Ur dynasty of kings who ruled from about 2400 to 2100 B.C.

Description by the [Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA](University of California, Los Angeles Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Found Texts website: https://cdli.ucla.edu/)

Provenience: Puzri-Dagan (mod. Drehem)

Period:Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period

Dates referenced: Amar-Suen.03.06.00

Material: Clay

Language: Sumerian

Genre: Administrative

Obverse: 1. 5(disz) gu4; 2. erin2 he2-bi2-la-at{ki}; 3. mu-kux(DU) / reverse: 1. iti u5-bi2-gu7; 2. mu us2-sa ma2-dara3-abzu ba-ab-du8; 3. u4 2(u) 3(disz)-kam / left: 1. 5(disz) gu4

Clay Cuneiform tablet.

Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.

Transcribed by Dr. Edgar J. Banks in an undated letter: Found at Jokha, the ruin of the ancient city of Umma in Central Babylonia. >This is a typical record of the temple offerings. After the tablet was written, and while the clay was still soft, the temple scribe rolled over the entire tablet his cylindrical stone seal and the seal impression made it impossible to change the record. The seal impression bears in raised characters the name of the scribe and of his father. It is dated about 2300 B.C.

Description by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA

• Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
• Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
• Dates referenced: Iggi-Suen.01.00.00
• Material: clay
• Language: Sumerian
• Genre: Administrative
• Obverse: 1. 1(gesz2)# 4(u)# 3(disz) {gesz#}eme szinig; 3. ki e2-ur2-bi-du10-ta; 4. szabra gu4-ke4; 5. szu ba-ti / reverse: 1. a-sza3 KA da?; 2. kiszib3 nimgir-an-ne2; 3. mu {d}i-bi2-{d}suen lugal#

Wilbert I. Symens from Britton, South Dakota was honored in 1973 as Eminent Farmer by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Frank Swope from Orient, South Dakota was honored in 1960 as Eminent Farmer by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

John E. Sutton from Onida, South Dakota was honored in 1972 as Eminent Farmer by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

John E. "Matt" Sutton from Onida, South Dakota was honored in 1986 as Eminent Farmer by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Marie Sutera, wife of Joseph Sutera from Tabor, South Dakota, was honored in 1952 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Oriska Stroschein, wife of Leon Stroschein from Deuel County, South Dakota, was honored in 1982 as Eminent Homemaker by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Mrs. Henry J. Strand from Brown County, South Dakota was honored in 1933 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Eugene Strain from White River, South Dakota was honored in 1978 as Eminent Farmer by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Correspondence from Lowell Amiotte and Charles Woodard in the planning of the third annual writers' retreat, 'Storytelling, Storykeeping.'

Signs hanging over stores in Manzhouli, Manchuria in northern China as viewed from behind a horse; written in pencil on the back: Signs over North Chinese store - Manchouli 1924

Storefronts in Manzhouli, Manchuria in northern China; written in pencil on the back: Manchouli North China 1924

Rickshaw on the street by an ornate storefront in Fushun, Manchuria in northern China; written in pencil on the back: Futachien Manchuria Chinese Store - 1924

Horse-drawn rickshaw carriage on the street by an ornate storefront in Fushun, Manchuria in northern China; written in pencil on the back: Futachien Manchuria Chinese Store - 1924

Soybeans are temporarily stored in covered bins awaiting shipment at Anda in northern China; written in pencil on the back: Soybeans stored ready for shipment at Anda, North China 1924

Soybeans are temporarily stored in covered bins awaiting shipment at Anda in northern China; written in pencil on the back: Soybeans stored ready for shipment at Anda, North China 1924

Signs hanging over stores in Manzhouli, Manchuria in northern China; written in pencil on the back: Manchouli North China 1924

Carrie R. Stitt, wife of Ed. Stitt from Hitchcock, South Dakota, was honored in 1936 as Eminent Homemaker by the Eminent Farmer and Homemaker Club at South Dakota State College.

Passengers waiting to board a steamer ship by the dock at the port in Tokyo Bay at Yokahama, Japan, the ship is possibly a steamer ship called the Admiral from a line of ships owned and operated by the United States government; written in pencil on the back: Yokohama 1924

Steamer ship by the dock at the port in Tokyo Bay at Yokahama, Japan, the ship is possibly a steamer ship called the Admiral from a line of ships owned and operated by the United States government; written in pencil on the back: Yokohama 1924

Passengers waiting to board a steamer ship by the dock at the port in Tokyo Bay at Yokahama, Japan, the ship is possibly a steamer ship called the Admiral from a line of ships owned and operated by the United States government; written in pencil on the back: Yokohama 1924

Steamer ship by the dock at the port in Tokyo Bay at Yokahama, Japan, people are riding bicycles on the dock, the ship is possibly a steamer ship called the Admiral from a line of ships owned and operated by the United States government; written in pencil on the back: Yokohama 1924

Steamer ship by the dock at the port in Tokyo Bay at Yokahama, Japan, the ship is possibly a steamer ship called the Admiral from a line of ships owned and operated by the United States government; written in pencil on the back: Yokohama 1924

Steamer ship by the dock at the port in Tokyo Bay at Yokahama, Japan, a porter is walking on the dock by the ship, the ship is possibly a steamer ship called the Admiral from a line of ships owned and operated by the United States government; written in pencil on the back: Yokohama 1924