Posted in Chilson Collection, Vermillion SD on August 15, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Do you see the park’s baseball field and the swimming pool on the postcard above?
Vermillion is collecting stories about the park for the celebration. We will happily forward any stories you send to us to the committee collecting the stories.
Help us assign a date to this postcard. We know it is after 1936 and before late 1950s because the caretaker’s house in the park is present but the water tower is not. Please also contact us if you know who took the picture or made the postcard.
Posted in Recently Received Collection, Richardson Collection, USD buildings, Vermillion SD on June 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The Archives and Special Collections received 31 boxes of rolled architectural drawings, floor plans, and blueprints of buildings in Vermillion SD and the University of South Dakota.
We are in the process of flattening and inventorying this gift. Projects date from 1920s to 2000s. Some of the projects are the Clay County Courthouse, Vermillion public schools, DakotaDome, Chemistry Building fire repair, animal quarters, and many dorms. The brief inventory included with the gift also lists items that are not buildings, such as a plot plan/old map and campus development. I look forward to finding them.
Posted in Chilson Collection, Richardson Collection, Vermillion SD, Women's History Month on March 8, 2022| Leave a Comment »
She was active and influential in politics and public education in the early 20th century at the local (Vermillion SD) level and the state level. She also wrote for a local newspaper, the Vermillion Plain Talk, and taught school.
1866 – birth.
Circa 1888 – graduation from USD and started teaching at Vermillion.
1901 – authored history section of Peterson’s Illustrated Historical Atlas of Clay County.
1911-1914 – Clay County superintendent of schools.
1924 – authored Makers of History; Today and Yesterday.
1926-1930 – Clay County auditor.
1930s– authored 3 stories in Legends of the Mighty Sioux.
1931 – authored Picture Studies: Complete.
1937 – death.
Her picture and obituary can be found at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15663153/florence-belle-conrow.
Posted in Palmer Sigvald Gilbertson Collection, USD Photograph Collection, Vermillion SD on February 14, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Chilson Collection, Vermillion SD on February 3, 2020| Leave a Comment »
What bend of the Missouri River between Vermillion and Yankton, SD is named after a famed 19th century naturalist who stayed at Fort Vermillion in 1843? He was traveling on the Missouri River while researching his book on quadrupeds? Archives and Special Collections has his quadruped and bird books in the Chilson Collection.
Image from quadruped book in the Chilson Collection.
The answer and the source of this information can be found in Herbert Schell’s History of Clay County, 1976, page 13.
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