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Coaching Party Departing for Scottish Games

Date: 08 31 1909
Description: A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants...
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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...
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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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Nebraska State Fair Tent

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of a group of Nebraska State fairgoers gathered in the International Harvester tent to watch a film. Advertising pennants hang from the tent'...
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Farmall at the Tri-State Fair in Iowa

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: A crowd of spectators gathers around a Farmall Regular tractor on display at the Tri-State Fair.
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Wisconsin Building

Date: 1893
Description: The Wisconsin Building at the Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exposition).
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Scene at Country Fair

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Description: Elevated view of the scene at the country fair. In the foreground a crowd is gathered near a pavilion near the racetrack. In the background on the right is...
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Crowd at Carnival

Date: 1898
Description: Crowd scene and circus barker in front of “The Electric Era Shows” tent, probably at a fair or carnival. A smaller tent in the background on the left has a...
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Warren Knowles Cuts the Cheese

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Description: Governor Warren Knowles helps to slice a wedge of cheese. Left to right: an unidentified Colonel; Dorothy Guidry Knowles; State Senator Gerald Lorge; Miss ...
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McCormick-Deering Industrial Power Display

Date: 1935
Description: Slightly elevated view of a crowd of people gathered around engines and power units displayed beneath a tent at the Indiana State Fair. An electric sign fl...
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McCormick-Deering/International Harvester at Minnesota State Fair

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the entrance to the McCormick-Deering, International tent at the Minnesota State Fair. A group of people are gathered in front of the entr...
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School Teachers Sorting Weed Seed

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Description: School teachers at a North Dakota fair, learning to sort weed seed, and name the varieties.
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Odanah Indian Fair

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated group portrait of men, women and children posing at the fairgrounds at Odanah. Most of the people are Native Americans, probably Ojibwe, with a nu...
Book or Pamphlet

Russian Catalog Cover for The McCormick Line Of Machines

Date: 1900
Description: Front cover of catalog for Russia. Features an illustration of men and women at a fair watching an exhibition of a man driving a horse-drawn McCormick bind...
Postcard

Outagamie County Fair

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Seymour Fair 1907." The grandstand at a fair is full of spectators, with horses, buggies and automobiles parked on the infield in the...
Postcard

Outagamie County Fair

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Seymour Fair 1907." Elevated view of fairgoers at the grounds with horses, buggies and automobiles. An exhibit building is on the lef...
Postcard

Grandstand at the Outagamie County Fair

Date: 1907
Description: The grandstand at a fair full of spectators, and a line of people standing in the foreground at the edge of the track.
Postcard

North View of Grand Stand at Inter County Fair

Date: 11 19 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "North view of Grand Stand at Inter County Fair, Spring Green, Wis." Two women are walking on the track in the foreground. In the back...

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