South Dakota State University Archives & Special Collections

Constituent Correspondence: Robo letters

DA 12 | B01-F12
Folder
1979 January-June

Part of Bill Nibbelink Papers

Representative Ben Reifel with VFW members in 1970

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1970 March

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel in his Washington D.C. office with a group representing Veterans of Foreign Wars

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39 in 1962

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1962 May 11

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39 in 1962

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1962 May 11

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39 in 1962

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1962 May 11

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel aboard the USS Lake Champlain CVS-39, an Essex-class aircraft carrier

Catholic Mission Church at Rosebud Agency, 1954

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1954 April 23

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Catholic Mission Church at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota

South Dakota State College Class of 1932 reunion

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undated

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

South Dakota State College Class of 1932 reunion; from let to right; row 1: Garrett Holleman, Frances O'Connell, James Etteldorf, Jennie Bang VanDenBerg. Nina Mae Cranston Garthune; Row 2: Ben Reifel, Wesley Neufeld, Eli Ferguson, Ken Schoenwether, Marjorie White Ashbaugh, Adeline Dahl Muehlbeier, Charlotte Christie Jones, Paul Jones; Row 3: Vivian Swenson Strand, Otis Dahl, Merwin B. Wheeler, Liguri Gannon, Donald Craig, Fred Frame; Row 4: Ozzie Stockland, William Garthune, Everard Opsal, Herman Stallbaum, Millard MacComb, Don Pier

Sioux Indian Museum at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, 1954

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1954 April 23

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Sioux Indian Museum at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota

Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel talking with farmers about sugar beets during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel talking with a farmer in a feed lot

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Ben Reifel talking with a farmer

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer standing by a Farmall tractor

Ben Reifel talking with A.E. Crook and W.E. Bergeson about sugar beets in 1960

Ben Reifel talking with A.E. Crooks and W.E. Bergeson about sugar beets in 1960

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1960

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Ben Reifel talking with A.E. Crooks, Spink County GOP chairman and president of the James River Valley Beet Growers Association from Frankfort, South Dakota and W.E. (Bill) Bergeson of the U & I Sugar Company in Belle Fourche, South Dakota about sugar beet during his 1960 campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel looking at grain samples in 1960

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1960

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Ben Reifel and an elderly man looking at grain samples

Ben Reifel talking with a farmer in a feed lot

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel talking with a farmer while standing in a cattle feed lot, there are heifer cows in the background

Ben Reifel during final day of his 1960 campaign

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1960

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Ben Reifel in Plankinton, South Dakota during the final days of his 1960 campaign for Congress

Ben Reifel reading a headline about his 1960 primary victory

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1960

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Ben Reifel reading an Aberdeen American News newspaper heading declaring him as the winner of the 1960 Republican primary in the first district of South Dakota, the headline reads: Reifel wins GOP contest

Ben Reifel was Bureau of Indian Affairs farm agent to the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1954

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1954 December

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Ben Reifel at his Bureau of Indians Affairs desk when he served as farm agent to the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation

Representative Ben Reifel

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Portrait of Representative Ben Reifel, a Republican from the First District of South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel in his Washington, D.C. office

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel talking on a phone in his Washington. D.C. office

Representative Ben Reifel on the capitol steps in Washington, D.C.

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undated

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Former Representative Ben Reifel standing on the steps leading to the capitol building in Washington, D.C.

Representative Ben Reifel in Washington, D.C.

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel walking down a Washington D.C. street carrying a briefcase

Representative Ben Reifel in National Statuary Hall in US Capitol Building

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C.

Representative Ben Reifel in National Statuary Hall in US Capitol Building

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C.

Representative Ben Reifel recording dictation in his office

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circa 1961-1971

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel sitting at his Washington D.C. desk speaking into a dictating machine

President Eisenhower speaking at an event

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1963

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

President Dwight Eisenhower is speaking at an event, there are men holding microphones in front of him

Holy Rosary Mission in Pine Ridge, South Dakota

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Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Bureau of Indian Affairs officials visit the Holy Rosary Mission in Pine Ridge, South Dakota; from the right: (second) Superintendent Towle; (third) Commissioner Emmons; (fourth) Rev. Lawrence Edwards, S.J., Superior of Holy Rosary Mission; From the Left (fourth) Rev. John Bryde, S.J. , principal of Holy Rosary Mission; (fifth) Ben Reifel, Aberdeen Area Director; (sixth) Representative Ely. Berry; (seventh) Assistant Commissioner Rex Lee

Representative Ben Reifel meets to discuss fundraising for the Battleship USS South Dakota Memorial in 1963

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1963 March

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel meets with VFW representatives from South Dakota, R.W. Hodson, Martin, and Bob Whittemore, Watertown who were raising money for the Battleship USS South Dakota Memorial

Representative Ben Reifel with the South Dakota Cherry Blossom Princess, and the President of the South Dakota State Society in 1963

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1963

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel standing next to the South Dakota Cherry Blossom Princess Judy Sorenson from Flandreau, South Dakota who is shaking hands with Don White, President of the South Dakota State Society from Pierre, South Dakota in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office

Representative Ben Reifel and Senator Karl Mundt at a reception for South Dakota's best Homemaker of Tomorrow in 1963

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1963 June

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel and Senator Karl Mundt at a reception for South Dakota's best Homemaker of Tomorrow Ruth Krueger left to rights: Margaret McBride, Ben Reifel, Ruth Krueger, Karl Mundt

Sisseton, South Dakota High School groundbreaking in 1968

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1968 September 30

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel (second from left) is among other at the groundbreaking for a new high school in Sisseton, South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel and Representative E.Y. Berry with members of the Greater South Dakota Association in 1967

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1967 May

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel, Don Schweiger, president of the Greater South Dakota Association, Harold Lovre, and Representative E.Y. Berry standing in front of a building

Representative Ben Reifel, Commissioner Philleo Nash, and Assistant Secretary Harry R. Anderson in 1965

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1965 Spotember 14

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel, Philleo Nash, Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Harry R. Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior

Tour of new Veterans Administration hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1965

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1965 April

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel (second from left) is with a group touring the new Veterans Administration hospital in Washington, D.C.

Representative Ben Reifel and astronauts Gus Grissom and John W. Young in 1965

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1965 March 27

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel is shaking hand with astronaut Gus Grissom, Betty Grissom, astronaut John W. Young and his wife, Barbara Young stand to the right

Representative Ben Reifel, Rogers Morton, and Wilma Victor in 1971

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Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel greets Wilma Victor, first woman deputy secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton stands behind them

Representative Ben Reifel meet with constituents to discuss the Vermillion River flood control project in 1962

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1962 May

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel meets with Gabriel Nelson, Wakonda, South Dakota, Loren Adamson and Ralph Landsman, both from Centerville, South Dakota, to discuss the Vermillion River flood control project in Reifel's Washington, D.C. office

Representative Ben Reifel at a reception in Washington, D.C. in 1963

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1963

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel and his wife, Alice Reifel, are at a reception in Washington, D.C. with Web Hill, and a representative of Life Magazine

Representative Ben Reifel with U.S. government officials

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Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel with United States government officials; from left to right: Surgeon General Luther Terry; Representative Ben Reifel; Mrs. Polling, Indian Health Service; Miss Gifford, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Secretary ?; Mamie Mizen, Senate Appropriations; Dr. Wagner, Indian Health Service

Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y. Berry, and Senator Karl Mundt meet with South Dakota constituents in 1962

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1962 July 23

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y. Berry, and Senator Karl Mundt meet with South Dakota constituents; left to right: Representative Reifel; Marilyn Daczewitz; Senator Mundt; Col. Casey Fillbrandt; Representative Berry; Senator Joseph Bottum; Pat Fillbrandt

Sun Dance at Two Strike Camp on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota in 1957

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1957 July 15

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Sun Dance at Two Strike Camp on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota; left to right: Jessie White Lance, Leo Clairmont, Bill Schweigman, and Henry Crow Dog

Representative Ben Reifel addresses South Dakota Farmers Union bus trippers in 1965

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1965 February 3

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel addresses South Dakota Farmers Union bus trippers in the Veterans Affairs Committee Room in Washington, DC

Representative Ben Reifel with 1968 intern Debbie Spaulding

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1968

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel works with intern Debbie Spaulding in his Washington, DC office

Representative Ben Reifel, Highway Department representatives Kenneth Morgan, and Derald Thompson in 1965

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Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel is showing the statue of Joseph Ward to Highway Department representatives Kenneth Morgan and Derald Thompson in Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC. The statue was given by the State of South Dakota

Representative Ben Reifel and the W.F. Hartman family in 1965

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1965 June 25

Part of Benjamin Reifel Papers

Representative Ben Reifel stands in front of the statue of Joseph Ward with Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Hartman and their family in Emancipation Hall in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC. The statue was given by the State of South Dakota