South Dakota State University Archives & Special Collections

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with Don Van Bockern and Verly Hafer in Washington, D.C. in 1966

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with members of the South Dakota Bankers Association in Washington, D.C. in 1963

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Quinn

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with Mr. and Mrs. Walt Soulek on the steps of the US Capitol

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with Mrs. Wayne Eshelberger on the steps of the US Capitol in 1965

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with REA members in Washington, D.C.

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with Roy Beard and 4-H delegates on the steps of the US Capitol

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with South Dakota 4-H leaders on the steps of the US Capitol

Representatives Ben Reifel and E.Y. Berry with South Dakota State University President Hilton M. Briggs on the steps of the US Capitol in 1964

Representatives Ben Reifel with others aboard a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria

Representatives Clark MacGregor and Ben Reifel in Korea in 1962

Representatives E.Y Berry and Ben Reifel with a 4-H group on the steps of the US Capitol in 1968

Representatives E.Y. Berry and Ben Reifel with Deaconess Link, Malinda Walters, and Bernadette Thompson on the steps of the US Capitol in 1964

Representatives E.Y. Berry and Ben Reifel with Helen Vlasak and Martha Eng on the steps of the US Capitol in 1968

Representatives E.Y. Berry and Ben Reifel, and Senator George McGovern with presidential scholars in 1968

Republican Party event

Retirement from Congress

Retirement from Congress

Richard S. Cowan, Congressman Ben Reifel, and Sidney R. Galler at the Smithsonian Institution in 1966

Robert Orben, President Nixon's speech writer in 1974

Ronald Reagan in Brookings, South Dakota campaigning for Nixon-Agnew in 1968

Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, 1954

Rosebud Indian Boarding School, 1954

Rusty Walles, John Sayre, directors of the Mackinac Demonstration, with Conrad Hunte in 1965

Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Cemetery, Wounded Knee, 1954

Sample Ballots for 1960 South Dakota Primary Election

Samuel Fast allotment, 1930

Secretary of the Interior presents Reifel with an award

Senator Jim Abdnor and Representative Ben Reifel

Senator Karl Mundt

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel at an event

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel clasp hands with others

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel watch David Hamil sign a document

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel with David Hamil of the East River Power Cooperative

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bennett in 1966

Senator Karl Mundt and Representative Ben Reifel with South Dakota State College alumni in 1963

Senator Karl Mundt at a Republican Party event

Senator Karl Mundt in the 1961 Gypsy Days parade in Aberdeen, South Dakota

Senator Karl Mundt with Louise Humphrey

Senator Karl Mundt, Senator Francis Case, and Ben Reifel during an interview

Senators Karl Mundt, George McGovern, Representative Ben Reifel, and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall by a model of a gasification facility in 1968

Senators, Representatives, and Congressional aides in Italy for a tour of the U.S. Army's Southern European Task Force in 1961

Shirley Temple Black speaks with Representative Ben Reifel in 1967

Sioux Indian Museum at Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, 1954

Sisseton, South Dakota High School groundbreaking in 1968

Snow sled used by Alaskan infantrymen at Fort Richardson, Alaska in 1964

South Dakota Committee on the Humanities

South Dakota congressional delegation with Tom Taylor in 1965

South Dakota delegation and their spouses at an event in 1963

South Dakota delegation for the Oahe Irrigation Project in Washington, D.C. in 1966

South Dakota Farmers Union 1964 Convention Political Panel

South Dakota Memorial Art Center

South Dakota Nurses Association members visit Representative Ben Reifel in 1961

South Dakota representative with Captain Charles W. Broz, winner of the Koren Kolligian, Jr. trophy

South Dakota Republication Party Platform

South Dakota State College Class of 1932 reunion

South Dakota State College Class of 1932 Reunion in 1987

South Dakota State College Class of 1933 reunion

South Dakota State College Hobo Day bum band is at the South Dakota Republican Headquarters at the State Fair in Huron, South Dakota in 1960

South Dakota State Society lunch with Lawrence Welk in 1961

South Dakota State University College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences honorees in 1981

Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn swears in Ben Reifel in 1961

Spider Back Bone allotment, 1930

Swearing in ceremony for Ben Reifel as Special Assistant for Indian programs to the Director of the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior

T. Dale Stewart and Congressman Ben Reifel look at an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in 1966

Testimonial Dinner for Felix S. Cohen

Three men in American Indian dress

Tom Kleppe introduces Ben Reifel as Special Assistant for Indian programs to the Director of the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior

Tom Kleppe swears in Ben Reifel as Special Assistant for Indian programs to the Director of the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior