Greetings from South Dakota!

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.