State Normal, Madison, South Dakota, 1913 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: State Normal, Madison, South Dakota, 1913, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: State Normal, Madison, So. Dak.
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State Normal, Madison, South Dakota, 1913
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Madison, South Dakota, in 1913 was a small county seat on the eastern prairie, and its State Normal School, founded in 1881 when the region was still Dakota Territory, was the town's most important institution. The school trained teachers for the one-room country schools scattered across the surrounding farmland, so its graduates carried its name into communities across the state. Local economy rested on grain and livestock, with farm families hauling wheat and corn to the railroad depots that linked Madison to larger markets. Students and townspeople knew the campus as the place where rural South Dakota learned to read, write, and teach, and this view shows a settlement built around that work.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | floe, a. c. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--South Dakota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,063 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | State Normal, Madison, So. Dak. |
| Reference | SD 1913 State Normal, Madison |
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