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| Description: | State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 ... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Company parade float for the "A Century of Progress" Worlds Fair. The two-section float is parked in front of the Field Museum and ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A crowd, including Evaline, Nellie and Harriet Bennett, looking at large banner advertisements for moving pictures. Moving picture subjects include fire fi... |
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| Description: | A crowd is standing in front of a tent advertised as the "Temple of Music." |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | A woman overlooks the Labor-at-the-Lakefront festival next to a banner that reads "Buy Union," "Buy Made in USA," and "Keep the Heart of America Beating." |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a large crowd gathered around two men handing out souvenir International Harvester yardsticks at the Indiana State Fair. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowds milling around attractions on a sunny day at the Sauk County Fair. Sideshows and concessions are on the left, and an oval dirt raci... |
| Date: | 10 03 1900 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Members of Pierce County's 4-H calf clubs on parade at a fair. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an audience gathering around the "Girlesk Revue" stage at the Iowa State Fair. The signs in the background read: "Roller Skaters; Bicycle ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A Farmall Regular tractor and an Internatioanl Six-Speed Special truck stand on elevated platforms on either side of an entrance to the Ohio State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | A crowd of spectators gathers around a Farmall Regular tractor on display at the Tri-State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and eyeglasses on a raised platform sits holding a microphone. There is a girl standing behind him, and children and adults are around ... |
| 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 uniformed member of the US armed forces leans against the rail of a raised platform at a Civilian Defense Rally. The man is wearing a hat and has two bar... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette and wearing a hat is juggling tin cans in front of the "Prize Cakes and Coffee" booth at a Civilian Defense Rally. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | The Dogpathers booth, surrounded by a crowd of children. Text on the banners and other signs read: "Kickapoo Juice Penny Pitch" "Greendale Dogpathers Cause... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A man orders a beer from the outdoor bar at a Civil Defense Rally. The banners on the booth read "Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer On Draft" and "Greendale Civilian ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing costumes as a part of a Civilian Defense Rally. The man on the left is wearing a straw hat, seersucker jacket, corsage, with a cane hanging... |
| 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... |
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