AMC. Adams Museum Collection

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The Beta Sigma Phi Collection contains meeting minutes, membership information, chapter by-laws, rules, guidelines for rituals and other events, correspondence, scrapbooks, and various other documents that reflect the functions and activities of the Beta Sigma Phi Chapters in Lead, SD, from 1985 to 2008.

Abstract The Yuill/Sundstrom Collection is a mixture of professional and personal records created by Camille Yuill and her daughter, Jessie Yuill Sundstrom. Both women were local historians and were involved in the newspaper industry; Camille as the editor of the Deadwood Pioneer-Times in Deadwood, South Dakota and Jessie as the publisher, author, and partial owner of the Custer County Chronicle in Custer, South Dakota. Camille...

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This is an artificial collection of records related to the Centennial Clothing Collection Style Shows performed between 1976 and 2013. The collection includes correspondence, administrative and organizational records, a scrapbook, photographs, and video recordings. The historic clothing used in the style shows, the Centennial Clothing Collection, is owned by the Days of ’76 Museum.

Abstract Diane Wolfgram earned her B.S. degree in geological engineering, with honors, from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in 1962 and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974 and 1977, respectively. Her doctoral dissertation, “Wall Rock Alteration and the Localization of Gold in the Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota,” is credited with adding twenty years to the life of the Homestake Mine. She is Professor Emeritus of Geological...

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This collection contains records and documents created by or pertaining to the members of the Frawley family and their business ventures. Most prominent are: the law office records of Henry Frawley, the correspondence of Christina Frawley and the papers of Catherine Lane Perry. The collection features correspondence, financial records, administrative records, contracts, tax documents, law office files and a number of ledgers.

Abstract Goldberg Grocery Company, originally called Big Horn Grocery, was the first grocery store in Deadwood. It was located at 670 and 672 Main Street. The grocery store operated from 1876 to 1990. During its lifetime the store had five owners: Jacob Goldberg (1976-1934), James O’Hara (1934-1946), Arnold G. Johnson (1946-1949), Walt Williamson (1942-1972), and Larry Shama (1972-1990). The grocery then became a soda fountain and casino and is currently an art studio. The Goldberg Grocery Company...

Abstract The Kevin M. Britz Papers includes the lecture notes, essays, Masters thesis, and Ph.D. Disertation created by Professor Britz and the copious amounts of copied records he obtained while doing his research for a book focused on Western towns and tourism. Britz's writing revolved around three separate Western communities, Deadwood, South Dakota, Tombstone, Arizona, and Dodge City, Kansas, with a large portion of the materials focused on Deadwood's Days of '76 Celebration. While the bulk of...

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This collection primarily contains administrative and organizational records of Lead-Deadwood Masonic organizations, including Lodges and York Rite bodies. These records accumulated from 1871 to 2002 and were housed in the Lead Masonic Temple. The collection includes annual reports or returns, officers’ reports, correspondence, financial and membership records, applications to join or advance, meeting minutes, sheet music, and photographs.

Abstract The Steven Mitchell Collection consists of materials collected by Mitchell as he worked on the water rights section of his book, Nuggets to Neutrinos: The Homestake Story. The collection contains original documents from the Golden Reward Mining Company, Anchor Mountain Mining Company, Jardine Mining Company, and many photocopies of photographs and documents from Homestake Mining Company. Copies of articles from newspapers as well as scholarly articles and...

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The Tom and Melissa Campbell Collection consists of published and technical reports, survey worksheets, drill logs, thin sections, maps, and electronic records. The materials were gathered while the Campbells worked on the creation of the Homestake Data Archive and the Homestake Core Archive.