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Fred L. Vilas Drugstore

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Description: Employees of the Vilas Drugstore. Fred Vilas was a relative of Madison's William F. Vilas.
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Crow Creek Indian Band

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Description: A Crow Creek Indian band, part of the Crow Creek Agency.
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Lower Brule Agency Water Pipe

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Description: Water gushes 18 feet in the air from a 6-inch pipe at the Lower Brule Agency. A man stands behind the pipe on the right.
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Lower Brule Agency Water Pipe

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Description: Water gushes 60 feet in the air from a 4-inch pipe at the Lower Brule Agency. Two men stand on the left near pumping machinery.
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Sioux Give Away Horses

Date: 1897
Description: Sioux give away horses at the Rosebud Agency. A large group of people are watching from a shelter on the left covered with branches.
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Miniature Apiary

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Description: Miniature apiary owned by Mr. L.H. Bremen.
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Mount Rushmore Under Construction

Date: 1935
Description: Construction on Mount Rushmore. Scaffolding is visible across Abraham Lincoln's face. Work has just begun on Theodore Roosevelt.
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Elevated View of Mining Company

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Deadbroke Mining Company nestled in a valley. In the foreground are a small number of dwellings and roads, and cut lumber. Caption reads: ...
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Badlands

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Description: Elevated view of the rocky outcroppings of the Badlands landscape.
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The Badlands

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Description: A view of the mountainous Badlands landscape.
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Badlands Landscape

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Description: View of a landscape in the Badlands, including a small shrub in the foreground.
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View of the Badlands

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Description: A view of the Badlands landscape. Rolling formations in the foreground give way to more extreme ones in the background.
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Thomas and Florence Quinney's Farmhouse

Date: 1920
Description: Thomas (Tom) and Florence Quinney standing in front of their farmhouse which has a climbing vine growing on it.
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Quinney Family

Date: 1923
Description: Katherine (Kate) Quinney and her brothers, Thomas (Tom) and Willam (Bill), standing in a yard.
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U.S. Fish Hatchery and Town

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of town with the U.S. Fish Hatchery in the foreground, the town in the distance and a gently sloping mountain in the background. Caption read...
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Rushmore Memorial

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Description: View of Mount Rushmore National Memorial. A road curves to the right where four presidents are depicted in the granite: George Washington, Thomas Jefferso...
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Watertown Chamber of Commerce Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Watertown Chamber of Commerce, with spot illustrations around the page of a dairy cow, potatoes, an ear of corn, a "mortgage lifter" hog,...
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Frances and Patrick Decorah

Date: 1977
Description: Frances Decorah and her son Patrick at a Pow-wow in South Dakota. She is seated in a lawn chair and Patrick is napping on her lap. Frances is wearing stree...
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James Abourezk

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Description: Close-up photograph of James George Abourezk, a Korean War veteran and Democratic politician from South Dakota. Abourezk was a member of the US House of Re...

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