Davis (S.D.)—Reprint Images
Content Description
The collection consists of thirty-nine reprint photographs of the town of Davis (S.D.) in east central Turner County. Five of the images date to the 1970s and show the post office, main street (2), American Legion building and a grain elevator. The other images in the collection roughly date from the 1890s to 1920s. Historical topics in this group include a local café, bank exterior, brick building, wood sawing, children and a wagon, steam tractors (2), automobiles (2), the interior of a bank, three women near a garage, a group of people by a lake, a large group of people swimming, three women sitting on an automobile, the Davis Community Band, school children (2), a school house, a store interior, main street scenes from various decades (8), two storefront images of the Davis Motor Company, residential buildings, the aftermath of a fire (2), the aftermath of a tornado (2) in 1928. The image were transferred from the State Historic Preservation Office, architectural survey files for Turner County. The items were collected in July 1982.
Acquisition Type
Transfer
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- ca. 1890s-1920s
- ca. 1970s
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet
- American Legion -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Automobiles -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bands -- South Dakota Subject Source: Local sources
- Banks and Banking -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Davis (S.D.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Davis Motor Company (Davis, S.D.)
- Elevators -- Agriculture -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photograph Collection -- Manuscript Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Post Office Buildings -- South Dakota -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Public Swimming Pool Subject Source: Local sources
- School Children -- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Steam Power Tractors -- South Dakota Subject Source: Local sources
- Structure Fires -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tornado Damage -- South Dakota Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tornado Damage--South Dakota--Davis (S.D.) Subject Source: Local sources
