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Crowds on Front Street in Beaver Dam

Date: 1910
Description: Crowds on Front Street during Dodge County Fair day, circa 1910-1915. Caption reads: "Front St., on a Dodge Co. Fair Day."
Photograph

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...
Print

Fairgrounds at Milwaukee

Date: 1859
Description: Elevated view of the fairgrounds in Milwaukee, the year when Abraham Lincoln spoke. The fairgrounds were located at the Brockway Grounds near Twelfth and S...
Photograph

Wisconsin Building at the St. Louis World's Fair

Date: 1904
Description: The Joseph Clauder Marching Band from Milwaukee pose in front of the Wisconsin Building at the St. Louis World's Fair. Clauder's band was one of the most p...
Print

Great Fair at Milwaukee

Date: 06 28 1865
Description: The Great Fair held at Milwaukee for the benefit of the Wisconsin Soldiers Home. The 130x130 foot building was constructed especially for the ten-day fair....
Photograph

Honey Queen, Governor and Fair Queen

Date: 1967
Description: Walworth Fairest of the Fair, Governor Knowles and the Wisconsin Honey Queen all holding a bottle of honey at the Walworth County Fair.
Poster

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Poster

Date: 06 1924
Description: Poster advertising the first annual Spring Festival and Entertainment event held on June 14, 1924 by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). There is an ima...
Photograph

Aerial View of Dane County Fair Grounds

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of the Dane County fairgrounds, including several buildings and a track.
Photograph

State Fair Park

Date: 1960
Description: The State Fairgrounds where a 200-mile "big car" race took place. The park is one of the five largest outdoor expositions in the country.
Postcard

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1948
Description: A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h...
Postcard

Wausau Fair Grounds

Date: 1905
Description: View of field area with four buildings in the background. Caption reads: "Wausau Fair Grounds, Wausau, Wis."
Photograph

Women Displaying Home Crafts

Date: 10 31 1956
Description: Mrs. Lester Paul, Homecrafter Chairman for the University League, and Mrs. Irving Raznikov, Homecrafter Chairman of the Easter Seal Society, displaying hom...
Photograph

Panama-Pacific Exposition

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of crowd on Palm Avenue at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Fransisco, California, 1915. Several ornate buildings can be seen near the cr...
Poster

New York World's Fair International Crawler Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1936
Description: Advertising poster for International Harvester crawler tractors (TracTracTors) showing the tractors laying "groundwork for the New York World's Fair, 1939"...
Photograph

Hungarian Wheat Festival

Date: 08 09 1942
Description: Two couples in Hungarian costumes, one man holding a scythe (kasza), admiring a sheaf of wheat in a wheat field. The twig tied to the scythe in a triangle ...
Poster

Century of Progress World's Fair Poster

Date: 1934
Description: Poster for the 1934 "Century of Progress" World's Fair in Chicago showing a woman surrounded by abstract representations of the sights and sounds of the fa...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne World's Fair Souvenir

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of an advertising folder produced by the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features illustrations of a young gi...
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Fairgrounds Harness Race

Date: 07 14 1944
Description: Racers heading into the curve in front of the grandstand at a county fair harness race.
Photograph

Horse Pulling Contest

Date: 1936
Description: Horse pulling contest at an unidentified Wisconsin county fair. At the time, farmers were making the transition from horse-drawn equipment to tractors and ...

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