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| Date: | 1904 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 24 1863 |
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| Description: | Panoramic wood-engraving of a cattle fair in New Haven, after a sketch by H.C. Curtis. Caption reads: "Cattle Show and Agricultural Faib [sic] at Ha... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A group of 4-H members standing underneath lights to be filmed for television at the Iowa State Fair, while a woman nearby is playing the piano. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Three young men in uniform, most likely boy scouts, standing with a model airplane. The men are being filmed for television at the Iowa State Fair. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A KRNT radio broadcaster sitting on a platform above a horse track at the Iowa State Fair as another man on the right is filming the race for television. A... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers to watch "Iowa's First Television Show" at the Iowa State Fair International Harvester headquarters. The sign hanging above the audience re... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An audience at the Nebraska State Fair sits in the International Harvester tent to watch a motion picture. Banners advertising IH farm equipment and repair... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An International Harvester booth with a thatched roof (possibly constructed of binder twine fiber) stands underneath a tent at the Indiana State Fair. Ther... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of Cairo Street on the midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. An Egyptian with a large drum rides a camel as men and boys watch. The ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A clown entertains three women at a Civilian Defense Rally, two of whom are wearing bonnets and matching dresses. Booths behind the women read "Variety Sto... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A conductor leads a band made up of school-age children as well as a few adults at a Civilian Defense Rally. They are playing outdoors in front of the Post... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the McCormick display at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (World's Fair of 1893). The exhibit features several full size and scale model... |
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| Description: | Composite paste-up intended to represent "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War with his bearer. At the Northwest Sanita... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the canal area of the Columbian Exposition grounds looking north from near the front of the Machinery building (at left). The South canal is in the... |
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| Description: | View from the inner track of a car and buggy race at a local fair. Crowds sit in the covered grandstand and a band sits at the ready on the sidelines. A Fe... |
| Date: | 06 1936 |
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| Description: | The Hummel & Downing booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. Hummel & Downing were... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three performing horses stand on platforms in a ring as their trainer gestures proudly in the foreground. Behind the ring are banners decorated with horses... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Advertisement featuring a painting by artist Henry Mosler, dated 1915, titled "The Stars and Stripes Forever." In the painting a young man dressed in cut-o... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Group of seven men posing in clown costumes and holding musical instruments. A drum on a wheeled cart has a cartoon representation of a clown, and is label... |
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