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State Fair Side Show Attractions

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Description: State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 ...
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Speaking from Wagon

Date: 1897
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., campaigning in Cumberland. La Follette led the reform faction in Wisconsin's Republican party and in 1900, he was elected gover...
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Speaking from Wagon

Date: 1897
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., speaking to a crowd from back of a wagon. This image is one of a series of views of his appearance at a fair in Cumberland, Wi...
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Speaking from Wagon

Date: 1897
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his fist in the air, speaking from the back of a wagon. He is wearing a hat and a suit without the coat. It was in part du...
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Speaking from Wagon

Date: 1897
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his fist in the air, speaking from the back of a wagon. It was in part due to his vigorous speaking style that La Follette...
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Osborne Wagon Exhibition

Date: 09 1910
Description: Crowd gathered under a tent to view the new line of Osborne wagons at International Harvester's Osborne Division exhibit at the New York State Fair, Septem...
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Dane County Fair

Date: 08 23 1930
Description: People in grandstand are overlooking the track from the right. There is a man standing in the center of the track making announcement over a public address...
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International Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1953
Description: Advertising poster for the Fast Hitch features a cartoon of men performing the "nationally famous Fast-Hitch square dance" on Farmall tractors. A photograp...
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'Howdy' Roberts Band Performs at IH Exhibit

Date: 1966
Description: The 'Howdy' Roberts Band performing inside an International Harvester exhibit at the Iowa State Fair. Band members are playing a clarinet, trumpet, accordi...
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Ring Toss at the Fair

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Description: Rex Roope of Kansas City got attention as he told his audience "all you have to do is ring the prize and it is yours. Step right up folks."
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Multitude of Motorcyles

Date: 1949
Description: Hundreds of motorcycles are parked side by side in rows in a Wisconsin State Fair parking lot. The grandstand and spectators appear in the background of t...
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William Jennings Bryan Addressing Crowd

Date: 10 03 1900
Description: View from audience of William Jennings Bryan, as Democratic nominee for election to the presidency, addressing a crowd, estimated at 15,000 people, at a st...
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Fairgrounds Harness Race

Date: 07 14 1944
Description: One horse and racer on the track in front of the judges stand during a harness race at a fairgrounds. Signs visible promote county fairs in Darlington and ...
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Alice and the Winner

Date: 1960
Description: Alice in Dairyland 1960, Joan Engh, poses with a winner at a regional Junior Livestock Exposition. Joan went on to become Miss Wisconsin in 1962, and she w...
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Lamb Judging

Date: 1959
Description: Lamb judging at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition.
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Buggies in Parade through Town

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Description: Slightly elevated view of buggies following marchers in parade though town, making a right turn from Water Street to Main Street and heading west. In the b...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Showing Off the Corn

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a man, wearing a bow tie and straw boater hat, sitting on top of a giant ear of corn. A crowd of onlookers gather around the man, suggestin...
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International Harvester Exhibits at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 08 1933
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Kankakee High School band that is playing in the background as a crowd gathers around International Harvester exhibits at the...
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News Broadcast at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A crowd gathers around a KRNT news broadcaster at the Iowa State Fair. The sign behind the broadcaster reads: "Charles McCuen, Stanley Dixon, Gordon Gamm.....
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Auto Buggy Exhibit at Indiana State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A man sits behind the wheel of an International Auto Buggy on display at the Indiana State Fair.

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