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

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

Statue in a courtyard in Havana, Cuba

Statue of nude woman in a garden outside of a building in Cuba

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

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

Allen Sperry from Bath, South Dakota was honored in 1966 as Eminent Farmer by South Dakota State University and the South Dakota Board of Regents.

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

FBI Special Agent Frank Denholm and another special agent are dusting a suspect's car for fingerprints

FBI Special Agents Frank Denholm (left) and Robert Bauter arriving at work

FBI Special Agent Frank Denholm is working on a case

FBI Special Agent Frank Denholm is filing evidence

FBI Special Agent Frank Denholm is finger printing a suspect

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

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.

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.

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

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

Scoreboard from SDSU home game versus Cuban national team showing a final score of 55 to 65

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

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

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

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

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

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

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

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team, scoreboard reads 44 South Dakota 66 Cuba

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team in Cuba. A mural of Ernesto Che Guevara and scoreboard showing score of 22 South Dakota and 36 Cuba are in background.

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

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

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team in Cuba

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

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

Action photo of basketball game between USA team from South Dakota delegation and Cuban national team

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

The materials in this collection were gathered by various officers and members of South Dakota State Poetry Society. The collection consists of historical information, board meeting notes and minutes, correspondence, publications by the organization, publications by South Dakota poets, and the 2015 Poet Laureate recommendation to the Governor.

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

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 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 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

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

Representative Jim Abourezk, Senator George McGovern, and Representative Frank Denholm in a meeting about the Oahe Irrigation Project on the Missouri River in central South Dakota.

Former Assistant Secretary of Interior Ken Holum, Representative Jim Abourezk, Representative Frank Denholm (standing), and Senator George McGovern in a meeting about the Oahe Irrigation Project on the Missouri River in central South Dakota.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Radio program talking about the challenges the agriculture faces. The farm crisis, the decline of farming, and parity and discussed. Ben Radcliffe comments on a Farm Income Farm Credit meeting. Comments from Ben Radcliffe on in come and standard of living for farmers. Women's Action Conference held in Sioux Falls participant shared concerns and ideas with consumers and businessmen and looked at ways for women to become involved politically, cooperatively, and through community organizations to strengthen relationships with agriculture and rural community allies. Comments from Erma Stuart, Jeanie Hetland, and Laurie Daschle about business, farm credit, and involvement in the government process. Theme music for the radio program is heard at the beginning and end of the recording.

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.

Jack Bailey radio show focusing on the four-day-long South Dakota Farmers Union Winter Workshop. Interview with Stanley Vote of Denver who speaks of the benefits of the workshop. The interview than shifts to taxes and how co-ops must be protected, and that people should patronage their co-ops to the fullest possible extent. The recording ends in a long passage of silence during which faint band music begins to play until the end of the recording.

South Dakota Farmers Union visiting sites such as Mt. Rushmore and the Dinosaur Park in the Black Hills, and Wall Drug and the Badlands in western South Dakota. Included is footage of camping, swimming, hiking, golfing, baseball, horseshoes, crafts, and a trail ride. Color film. No sound.

Activities at a South Dakota Farmers Union summer camp. Includes footage of teenagers participating in daily activities such as meals, swimming, making crafts, and dancing. Also contains footage of a man giving a demonstration with liquid nitrogen. The film is undated, in color, and silent.

Glenn Talbot, Vice President of the National Farmers Union, speaking at the dedication of the new building for the state headquarters of the South Dakota Farmers Union in Huron, South Dakota. He speaks about price support legislation, the need for increases in agricultural production to support the population growth in the United States and the 1949 Farm Act.

Gladys Talbott Edwards, representing the Department of Education in the National Farmers Union, speaking at the dedication of the new building for the state headquarters of the South Dakota Farmers Union in Huron, South Dakota. She speaks about the Junior Farmers Union program. Emil Syftestad, manager of Farmers Union Central exchange, speaks about the pioneers of the Farmers Union in South Dakota.

Call to the grassroots farmers of South Dakota to join the South Dakota Farmers Union. Tony Dechant, president of the National Farmers Union thanks volunteers the a membership campaign. He speaks of how the union protects farmers rights and its cooperative work.

The records are comprised of correspondence, meeting minutes, publications, scrapbooks, photographs, oral history interviews, audio-visual materials, and the records of local unions.

South Dakota Farmers Union communication director, Chuck Growth radio report on the South Dakota legislature. Ben Radcliffe talks about a proposal with could guarantee minority rule on the subject of taxes and how it is not good for local property taxes. A reporter names Wilma introduces Richard Moser who reports from Washington, D.C. about the Farmers Union lobby effort regarding tax reform and the Homestead. Mrs. Fred Gordon comments discussions with congressman about issues like the Homestead act, estate planning and price support.

South Dakota Farmers Union radio advertisement urging listeners to join the Farmers Union.

South Dakota Farmers Union President Tony Dechant comments on farm legislation provisions including raising loan rates, price supports, commodities, set-aside acres, wheat reserves, Food for Peace.

Ben Radcliffe, president of the South Dakota Farmers Union, speaks out about common misconceptions about food prices.

South Dakota Farmers Union picnics. Features children participating in outdoor activities such as playing softball, volleyball, horseshoes, swimming, horseback riding, leading cattle, foot racing, square dancing, and picnicking. Other footage includes flag-raising ceremonies, Mount Rushmore, various Co-op products, and Phillips 66 trucks and equipment. The film is in color and silent.

South Dakota Farmers Union membership campaign film featuring Mr. and Mrs. John Keinon of Aberdeen, South Dakota. The footages is of their farm and combining a field of wheat. The film urges viewers to join the South Dakota Farmers Union. Black-and-white film. Sound

Allan Burke, South Dakota Farmers Union communications director, announces the upcoming Farmers Union Legislative Action Conference that will be held in Chamberlain, South Dakota. The conference will feature a discussion of state and national issues including tax reform, corporate farming, constitutional revision, probate and transportation. National Farmers Union Legislative Director Reuben Johnson will cover current legislative development and projections in Congress. State Senator Grace Mickelson will address the noon luncheon.

Allan Burke, South Dakota Farmers Union communications director, announces the upcoming Farmers Union Legislative Action Conference that will be held in Watertown, South Dakota. The conference will feature a discussion of state and national issues including tax reform, corporate farming, constitutional revision, probate and transportation. National Farmers Union Legislative Director Reuben Johnson will cover current legislative development and projections in Congress. State Representative Burt Ellingson will address the noon luncheon.