Greetings from South Dakota!
Updated: Aug 5
A Postcard Collection from the University of South Dakota’s Archives
The USD Archives and Special Collections is home to many unique holdings from South Dakota’s past. This on-line exhibit, Greetings from South Dakota, is a compilation of 27 postcards rendering images from throughout the state. As a part of our Chilson Collection, this group of 159 cards is entitled “South Dakota postal cards, A collection of cards of early South Dakota.” Although the collection is relatively small, the images are diverse and give a glimpse of life in South Dakota in the early 1900s. All dates given are based on that of the postal date unless otherwise written on the front of the postcard.
Text and images taken from an online exhibit done for the Archives and Special Collections by Jami Guthrie.
Eighth St. Concrete Bridge and Dam, Sioux Falls, S.D. 1913
Agricultural Building, State Fair 1909, Huron, S.D.
View of the big bridge at Pierre 1913
Catholic Church, Tabor, S.D., 1913
Chalk Rock Bluff, Springfield, S.D.
City Hall, Vermillion, S.D.
The parade going to ay the corner stone of Clay County’s new Court House, 1912
East Side of Main Street, Fairfax, So. Dakota, 1907
CoD State Camp, 1914
Corn Palace, Mitchell, S. Dakota
Cyclone, Pukwana, S.D. 1908
1909
The Evans Hotel, Hot Springs, S.D. 1914
Ladies’ Dormitory, Springfield, S.D. 1908
Main St. East, Vermillion, S.D.
Main Street, Vermillion, S.D.
1910
Pierre, S.D., Capital Ave. Looking East
Plowing and Seeding by Steam in S.D. 1907
The First Snowstorm, 1910
“Starcher Block,” Fairfax, So. Dak. 1907
“The Douglas” passing under uplifted span meridian highway bridge, Yankton, S.D.
Two Little Girls in Blue – on the Claim
The Water Tank Going Down, Vermillion, S.D. 1909
Unidentified
West on Main St, Vermillion, S.D.
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