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| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Competitors in the calf judging lining up with their animals at the Portage County fair. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Three men look at the first-prize bull in a pen at the Iowa State Fair. The original caption reads: "John Minish(?), North English, Iowa. 1st prize jr. yea... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Walworth County Fair. A large crowd gathers around a carousel. |
| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Three men in Arab dress pose in front of the base of an obelisk on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition. A gentleman in western dress also poses ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype photograph of a man in oriental dress on the Midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. He stands behind a gate; a sign warns, "No Admittance ... |
| 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: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Men from the armed forces working a game booth at a Civilian Defense Rally. Their hats are embroidered with the text "Greendale Wisconsin." |
| 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... |
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| Description: | View of Lyme (?) Grange Fair, featuring cattle being shown in a field, a wagon, several people, and a fence. |
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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: | 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... |
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| Description: | A group of teenagers lounge about on bales of hay in a barn at the Dane County Junior Fair and Horse Show. Cows are resting nearby on the right. |
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| Description: | Man displaying a stallion near a wooden fence and in front of several buggies and a boy standing on the left, probably at the Jackson County Fairgrounds. I... |
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