[Photograph album of sites in the Black Hills, South Dakota].

[Rapid City, South Dakota], [circa 1930-1935]

12 photographs in 1 album ; 134 x 88 mm

Purchased from Ronald Rayman on the Winlock William Miller, Jr. Memorial Fund, 2010.

This material is open for research.

Rise Studio was a photographic studio in Rapid City, South Dakota, operated by Carl H. Rise (1888-1939), an optometrist and photographer.

Photograph album of sites in the Black Hills, South Dakota, circa 1930-1935. Many images document places along Needles Highway (South Dakota Highway 87), including Sentinel Rock. Sites in Custer State Park include Cathedral Spires, the Mount Coolidge Lookout Tower, Needles Eye, the Needles Eye Tunnel, the State Game Lodge, and Sylvan Lake. Other sites in South Dakota include Ice Box Canyon and Rough Lock Falls, as well as a view of sculptor Gutzon Borglum inspecting work on the face of George Washington at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, circa 1932.

English

March 01, 2017

Rise Studio, Photograph Album of Sites in the Black Hills, South Dakota. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Rise Studio, Photograph Album of Sites in the Black Hills, South Dakota. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.