LI Lesson 5 Ancestry Library South Dakota

There were over 5,000 listing for pictures in south Dakota. As I started looking through the pages I noticed there were many yearbooks listed so pulled up one from the Black Hills University in Spearfish from 1916. There was a little writeup from the yearbook along with what looked like a class picture. There were 63 other pages in this document alone. I sounds like this group went on an outing in a horse drawn cart and ran into some trouble.Quite interesting as well as the language used almost 100 years ago.
Then I refined my search to family photos 1850-2000. Looking through the old photos it looked like any other family from that era. I liked the candid shots more than the posed ones because it shows so much more personality. The farms in the background look similar in every picture as well and is interesting that even when people weren't as "linked" together as we are now they still lead pretty similar lives. Also it's interesting to note that good looks come through no matter what the hairstyle or clothes.

I also looked around the Sears Catalogs. Kind of interesting the products they had for sale and the prices. This would be helpful for someone doing a display of historical items and they needed a description and information. Also if someone was recreating an authentic piece for a prop in a play or movie, this gives a timely information about things that may or may not be around anymore or has adapted so much to our technology its unrecognizable.