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Apple Stand at Deering Works Agricultural Exhibit

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Description: Two women staffing an apple stand for an agricultural exhibit at International Harvester's Deering Works. The stand is decorated in stars and stripes. The ...
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Drainage Districts Booth

Date: 08 29 1926
Description: Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o...
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Alice in Dairyland and World's Largest Cheese

Date: 1964
Description: Alice in Dairyland, and two employees of Steve's Cheese, sample a piece of the World's largest cheese. The gigantic piece of cheese was part of Wisconsin's...
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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 08 22 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, Alice in Dairyland in 1953, dressed in a formal gown, standing with a cow, a clown, and another woman in a Golden Guernsey display.
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Alice in Dairyland and Dairy Princesses

Date: 1955
Description: The 1955 Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown, stands with four Alice Princesses in front of a Wisconsin Department of Agriculture/American Dairy Association ...
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Dairy Products Exhibit

Date: 08 1948
Description: The Department of Agriculture's Cheese promotion booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The booth urges consumers to "Serve Wisconsin Dated Cheese."...
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Eggs Hatching

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Description: A group of fairgoers intently watch an exhibit of eggs, some of which are just beginning to hatch.
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Meat: Man's Favorite Food

Date: 08 1946
Description: Fairgoers examine exhibits about meat, "Man's Favorite Food," sponsored by the National Livestock and Meat Board at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1962
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, greeting admiring members of the public at the junior livestock exposition in Eau Claire. The Alice in Dairyland com...
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Livestock Judging

Date: 09 1953
Description: A young woman shows her entry in the Central Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition.
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Alice and the Winner

Date: 1962
Description: Alice in Dairyland 1962, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, posing with a young winner and his entry at the regional Junior Livestock Exposition in Eau Claire.
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Men Gather Near Beverage Tent

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men stand at a makeshift bar under a beverage tent where crates from Golden Grain Juice Company and Anheuser-Busch from St. Louis, Missouri, lin...
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Beverage Dispenser

Date: 1930
Description: A man is stooping down to fill a paper cup with a beverage from a barrel dispenser under a tent at what appears to be a fair. The barrel is marked "IHC Ser...
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Cream Separator Display at Indiana State Fair

Date: 1929
Description: Fairgoers gather around the McCormick-Deering ball-bearing cream separator display at the Indiana State Fair.
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Guernsey Cow Exhibition

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Description: A Guernsey cow exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, New York. Milking equipment is being used on the cows, who stand in a circular paddock...
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Farm and Home Week Activities

Date: 02 04 1952
Description: Eggs from all over the state are displayed at the stock pavilion on the University of Wisconsin campus during Farm and Home Week. Mrs. Leonard Husted (at l...
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Farm and Home Week Activities

Date: 02 04 1952
Description: Exhibits of party ideas for children were part of the activities at the stock pavilion on the University of Wisconsin campus during Farm and Home Week. Ani...
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Woman with Poultry Housing Display

Date: 1915
Description: A woman holding a chicken is standing beside a display illustrating quality poultry housing (chicken coops).
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Meadows Stone Burr Grain Mill

Date: 1920
Description: A Meadows stone burr grain mill powered by an International Harvester engine grinding wheat into flour at what appears to be an outdoor fair or exhibition....
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Livestock in Waukesha Sales Pavilion

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Description: Either an auction or a judged show featuring dairy cattle at the Waukesha Sales Pavilion. Spectators are arranged on three sides of the stage. Poster on th...

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