Session at the South Dakota Farmers Union Women's Action Conference on the Crisis in Rural America. Member of the South Dakota Farmers Union Education Department reviews a teacher's guide for individuals who will be teaching youth about agriculture.

Speakers at the South Dakota Farmers Women's Conference on the Crisis in Rural America. Laurie Daschle speaks about getting women involved in the political process. Erma Stewart talks about business and farm credit. Elsie Hovey food prices, the Russian embargo, and the railroad tax. Ben Radcliffe speaks about embargos and farm legislation. He also talks about parity and low grain prices. There are moments of silence between speakers.

South Dakota Farmers Union Youth Program Luncheon being held for the young people to honor their contributions and inspire them to continue their dedication to the Farmer's Union in the future. Various Farmers Union members discuss how they got involved in the Youth Program and how it has had a positive affect on their lives.

Promotional recording to inform young people about the South Dakota Farmers Union Youth Program. Included is a brief history of the program, the Youth Achievement Program, the Junior and Senior Youth Programs, and youth camps. Included is a speaker discussing what Farmers Union members can do for greater political influence.

Correspondence, publications, and other documents related to Ben Reifel's dealings with the South Dakota Memorial Art Center, including his American Indian art collection and his service on their board of directors.

Members of the South Dakota Nurses Association visit with Representative Ben Reifel in his office, they are looking at a folder of the American Nurses Association Conferenced on Legislation

Series of short commercials narrated by Al Bushen, Secretary of Citizens for Tax Equality, citing why people should vote yes for the Dakota Proposition, or Initiated Measure B. The measure would have added a section to the South Dakota constitution relating to real property tax limitation.

Senator Karl Mundt, Senator George McGovern, Representative, and William F. McKee with Captain Charles W. Broz, winner of the Koren Kolligian, Jr. trophy which recognizes outstanding feats of airmanship by aircrew members who by extraordinary skill, exceptional alertness, ingenuity, or proficiency, averted accidents or minimized the seriousness of the accidents in terms of injury, loss of life, aircraft damage, or property damage

Ben Reifel's note on the South Dakota Republican party platform during Ben Reifel's campaign.

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

Members of South Dakota State College Class of 1932 meet for a reunion; left to right: William Garthune; Nina Cranston Garthune; Howard Magnusson; Jennie Bang VanDerBerg; Ben Reifel; Fred Fromke; Millard MacComb

South Dakota State College Class of 1932 reunion at Alumni Days at South Dakota State University; left to right; Front Row: Nina Mae Cranston Garthune, Charlotte C. Jones, Effie Olson Rishoi, Dorothy Whittemore Goose, Ben Reifel; Back Row: William M. Garthune, Ed Painter, Paul C. Jones, F. Clark Trygstad, Larry Gannon, Kenneth Schoenwether, Otis J. Dahl

South Dakota State College Class of 1933 reunion; from let to right; Row 1: Edith Braun, Helen Walters, Francis Ryland Reifel, Winifred Brown Lee, Ethel Bowe Gilbertson; Row 2: Paul Freeburg, Harold Braun, Francis Johnson, Willis Dahlmeier, Kris K. Gilbertson, Elmer Johnson

South Dakota State College Hobo Day bum band is at the South Dakota Republican Headquarters at the State Fair in Huron, South Dakota, there is an elephant to the right

Representative Ben Reifel, Representative E.Y. Berry, and Senator Karl Mundt with Lawrence Welk and others at a South Dakota State Society luncheon

Action photo of USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team playing at SDSU

Dean Delwyn Dearborn of the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences at South Dakota State University honors Al Schock Oscar Olson, Ben Reifel, and an unknown man

South Dakota United Nations Association panel speaker Dr. Frank P. Graham, United Nations representative to India and Pakistan, talks about his work the United Nations.

South Dakota United Nations Association panel speakers Dr. Frank P. Graham, United Nations representative to India and Pakistan, Reverend Ernshaw, and Dr. Kerr, president of Huron College. Discussed the contributions of the U.N. to maintain world peace through campaigns against hunger, illiteracy, poverty, disease, colonialism, and war.

South Dakota United Nations Association convention speakers. Speaker talks about United Nations Day and several issues facing the U.N. including the crisis in the Formosa Strait, the U.N. Police Force and Peace Force, disarmament, control of outer space, Antarctica, radiation, economics, and human rights. Speech is followed by a question and answer session. Keith Allenwood, Program Director for Farmers in World Affairs, speaks about the program. South Dakota State College president John Headley speaks about the college and the Agricultural Experiment Station.

Mrs. George Headley, president of the South Dakota United Nations Association, explains that the purpose of the organization. She also announces that Henry Cabot Lodge, the U.S. delegate to the U.N. General Assembly will be the featured speaker at the state convention in October 1955. York Langton, regional president of the American Association for the .United Nations, speaks about the investment for peace through the United Nations.

South Dakota United Nations Association panel speaker Dr. Frank P. Graham, United Nations representative to India and Pakistan, talks about how the United Nations strengthens peace in the world, the F.A.O., racial discrimination, and the atomic age. Charles F. Brannan, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, speaks about the economy, the abundance of food for the first time in history, world peace, freedom, and price support programs.

Four radio advertisements encouraging voters to vote 'yes' on Amendment A, Single Member State Senate District. Sponsored and paid for by the Committee for Amendment A, Norman Topel Meyer, secretary.

Speakers of the House Sam Rayburn swears in Ben Reifel during a ceremony

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Robert Sperl, Sr., cooperative and Farmers Union activist in Gregory County.

Fargo Warrior living on Spider Back Bone's allotment as he gave 160 acres to his daughter. One room log house with shingle roof and good flooring

State of South Dakota Service Certificate for Gertrude Stickney Young from Governer Gubbrud in appreciation of fifty-four years of service

Statue in a courtyard in Havana, Cuba

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Kenneth Stillson former manager of the Marshall County Farmers Union Oil Company.

Biographical narrative of Gertrude Stickney Young's family

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

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Orris Swayze, cooperative activist and alternative fuels supporter.

Crowd gathered during the 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

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Paul Symens, Farmers Union Marketing and Processing Association director, former South Dakota Farmers Union board member, and former state Senator.

T. Dale Stewart, Senior Scientist, Department of Physical Anthropology, and Congressman Ben Reifel look at a first Americans exhibit during an Evening at the Smithsonian

Congressman Ben Reifel and T. Dale Stewart, Senior Scientist, Department of Physical Anthology looks at an exhibit in Jade Hall in the Museum of Natural History during and Evening at the Smithsonian

Congressman Ben Reifel and T. Dale Stewart, Senior Scientist, Department of Physical Anthology looks at an exhibit in Jade Hall in the Museum of Natural History during and Evening at the Smithsonian

Snippets of speeches about the balance of trade and government spending, tax reform, property tax relief, the war in Vietnam, and foreign policy.

Man speaking about taxation and farm loans. He also discusses about farm price support programs and the benefits to all Americans.

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Phillip Testerman, farmer, insurance agent, and member of the South Dakota Senate and House of Representatives.

Book of remarks from the Testimonial Dinner for Felix S Cohen, as well as Ben Reifel's iterinaries and list of orientation meetings.

Brief history of the Department of History and Political Science, South Dakota State College (SDSU), 1880s-1950s.

Three men in American Indian dress in front of a tipi at an event in Lemmon, South Dakota

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, Reifel's wife, Francis, stands between them

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, Reifel's wife, Francis, stands between them. The photographs is signed: To Ben Reifel - It is good to have you with us even thought for a short time. Tom Kleppe

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, Reifel's wife, Francis, stands between them

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Dallas Tonsager, Farm Credit Administration board member, former South Dakota Farmers Union president, and former USDA Rural Development Director for South Dakota.

Top of the Farm News recording. Creighton Knau, WNAX farm director, is speaking about the 1963 feed grain program details. The agriculture department has moved to slow down its acreage reduction program for feed grains. Ben Radcliffe, president of the SD Farmers Union, is in Washington, DC chairing a national Farmers Union committee working on feed grain proposals the committee will submit to Congress next year. Charles Schuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, feels that reserves of feed grains should not be kept in government storage.

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

Congressman John D. Fuqua, Florida, Frank J. Horton, New York, Graham D. Purcell, Texas, and Clark MacGregor, Minnesota, watch exercises held at the Ski Bowl training area at Fort Richardson, Alaska

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Manuscript printed in tribute to the life of Allyn Abbott Young by his colleagues and presented to Gertrude Stickney Young upon his death

Trinity Episcopal Mission Church at Mission, South Dakota

Thirty-eight National Farmers Union members representing seven states paid their own way to participate in a tour of Europe in October 1955. They visited farms, dairy's, cooperatives, cheese and sugar factories, and grain elevators. Locations visited were the Azores, Italy, Switzerland, France, and England. Narrated by John Eklund. Color film. Sound.

Two men shaking hands and smiling

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Robert Ullom, former member of the board of directors of the Farmers Union Oil Company at Flandreau and the Farmers Union Central Exchange.

Representative Ben Reifel (seated, far right) was on the United States House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture sub-committee in 1961-1962

Representative Ben Reifel and Representative Mike Kirwan are among members of the United States Interior Department Appropriations Subcommittee of the 88th Congress

Representative Ben Reifel and Representative Mike Kirwan are among members of the United States Interior Department Appropriations Subcommittee of the 88th Congress

US officials meet President Park Chung-hee in Seoul, Korea

US Submarine pushed up through the snow and ice in the arctic by the North Pole. Photograph is signed: For Congressman Reifel WHALE at the North Pole 6 April, 1969

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Merlin Van Walleghan, former member of the board of directors of CHS, Inc., 2007 South Dakota Association of Cooperative Hall of Fame inductee

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Alec Vedvei, Kingsbury County Cooperative leader.

Verly Hofer, Representative Ben Reifel, Dan Van Bocbern, and Fred Coursey pose with a trophy

United States Vice President Hubert Humphrey walking out of a door with other people

United State Vice President Hubert Humphrey shakes hand with three men

Vice President Hubert Humphrey walks with two other men outdoors

View from a balcony in Havana, Cuba

This collection is composed of three diaries of J.M Aldrich during his tenure as a student at Dakota Agricultural College from 1885-1888. The diaries give an invaluable account on life as a student during the early years of the college. The diaries are separated into three volumes, one for each year Aldrich was a student at the college. Between 1930 and 1932, Aldrich made typewritten transcripts copied from his original diaries and included parenthetical comments for clarification. Each daily entry states the day and date, which are underlined, and relate Aldrich's daily activities. Most of the entries are trivial, recounting the activity of each day, but give an excellent portrayal of the atmosphere of Dakota Territory life in the 1880s. Topics included in the diaries range from accounts of his journeys between his home in Minnesota to Brookings to administrative upsets such as President George Lilley losing his position to Lewis McLouth.

This collection is composed of three diaries of J.M Aldrich during his tenure as a student at Dakota Agricultural College from 1885-1888. The diaries give an invaluable account on life as a student during the early years of the college. The diaries are separated into three volumes, one for each year Aldrich was a student at the college. Between 1930 and 1932, Aldrich made typewritten transcripts copied from his original diaries and included parenthetical comments for clarification. Each daily entry states the day and date, which are underlined, and relate Aldrich's daily activities. Most of the entries are trivial, recounting the activity of each day, but give an excellent portrayal of the atmosphere of Dakota Territory life in the 1880s. Topics included in the diaries range from accounts of his journeys between his home in Minnesota to Brookings to administrative upsets such as President George Lilley losing his position to Lewis McLouth.

This collection is composed of three diaries of J.M Aldrich during his tenure as a student at Dakota Agricultural College from 1885-1888. The diaries give an invaluable account on life as a student during the early years of the college. The diaries are separated into three volumes, one for each year Aldrich was a student at the college. Between 1930 and 1932, Aldrich made typewritten transcripts copied from his original diaries and included parenthetical comments for clarification. Each daily entry states the day and date, which are underlined, and relate Aldrich's daily activities. Most of the entries are trivial, recounting the activity of each day, but give an excellent portrayal of the atmosphere of Dakota Territory life in the 1880s. Topics included in the diaries range from accounts of his journeys between his home in Minnesota to Brookings to administrative upsets such as President George Lilley losing his position to Lewis McLouth.

Wessington Springs, South Dakota diamond jubilee celebration. Nellie Mercer-Sickler expresses her congratulations from Vancouver, Washington. She talks about how she came to Dale Township in 1884 and her experience, including the 1888 blizzard.

Wessington Springs, South Dakota diamond jubilee celebration. Grace Huntley expresses her congratulations from Claremont, California. She talks about her experiences in Wessington Springs from the time of her birth in April 1888.

White Cow Bull living on his own allotment of 640 acres with a log house, dirt floor, board flooring

South Dakota Farmers Union Communications Director, Chuck Groth, Cooperative Legacy Project interview with Maynard Whitemyre, former field representative and Vice President of the South Dakota Farmers Union.

Vice presidential candidate William Miller walking next to a man on the airstrip at Joe Foss field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Vice presidential candidate William Miller deboarding a plane at Joe Foss Field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

William Miller greeting constituents at Joe Foss field in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Miller was candidate for vice president candidate in 1964. Alice Reifel is visible in the bottom left hand corner wearing a white shirt and sweater

William Miller speaking at a Republican campaign rally at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota

William Miller speaking at a Republican campaign rally at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota

Vice presidential candidate William Miller speaking at a podium at a Republican campaign rally in Sioux Falls, South Dakota