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| Date: | 1859 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 14 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Competitors in the Junior Livestock Exposition with their pigs before the judging. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Police direct traffic through "Entrance A" at the Ohio State Fair while pedestrians walk nearby. Woman in uniforms sell concessions outside the entrance. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Walworth County Fair. A large crowd gathers around a carousel. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Three people in costume behind a table. There is a man wearing a false beard a hat, holding a jug with three x's on it, a woman wearing a polka-dot blouse ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Visitors to the Sauk County Fair walk by sideshow attractions and concession stands while others stand and converse. The "Grand Electric Palace," a "$10,0... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A double exposure of a landscape featuring a very large tree and farm houses superimposed on an image of buildings and crowds at the Sauk County Fairground... |
| Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd around horses during livestock judging. In the background are fields, a road, power lines, and in the far distance along the horizon... |
| Date: | 06 13 1916 |
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| Description: | Boys participating in high jump. Original caption reads: "Boys from the various schools of Cook county doing the running high jump at the school festival h... |
| Date: | 08 21 1940 |
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| Description: | An airplane is pulling a banner reading: "Heil says repeal oleo tax" over the Wisconsin State Fair on Governor's Day. |
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| Description: | People walking around tents at the Bluehill Fair. A road stands to the right and hills are visible in the background. |
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| Description: | View of the State Fair Grounds featuring a race track and a crowd seated in the grandstands. |
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| Description: | Horses pull wagons on a stretch of racetrack at the Cuyahoga County Fair while spectators gather around the track beside parked automobiles. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four men and their horses harness racing down a road, with crowds of spectators on the sides, during a county fair in southwestern Wiscons... |
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| Description: | View from the inner track of harness racing at a local fair. The horses and their drivers can be seen racing around a tree-lined curve in the track and pas... |
| Date: | 09 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a herd of buffalo at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 09 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a herd of buffalo at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
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| Description: | View of the race track and grandstand at the county fair. Men leading horses on the track. Caption reads: "Rusk County Fair, Ladysmith, Wis." |
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