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| Date: | 09 18 1967 |
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| Description: | Ferris wheels and agricultural machinery are some of the things that attract fair-goers at the World Food 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: | 07 10 1985 |
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| Description: | People, including a very eager little girl, stand around a concession stand to buy popcorn, peanuts, cotton candy, snow-cones, and other snacks at the 50th... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | International C-30 armored truck built for Brinks, Incorporated. The truck is parked at the "Irish Village" exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's ... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Armored C-30 truck built for Brinks Incorporated parked in front of a castle in the "Irish Village" exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair in ... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Armed officers and an armored truck owned by the Brinks Express Company outside the Italia building at the Chicago World's Fair "A Century of Progress" exh... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Crowds on Front Street during Dodge County Fair day, circa 1910-1915. Caption reads: "Front St., on a Dodge Co. Fair Day." |
| 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... |
| Date: | 06 1924 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the first annual Spring Festival and Entertainment event held on June 14, 1924 by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). There is an ima... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Poster for the 1934 "Century of Progress" World's Fair in Chicago showing a woman surrounded by abstract representations of the sights and sounds of the fa... |
| 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: | Community Fair of the Bashaw Valley Farmers Club. E.L. Lutcher, head of the farmers institutes program of the agricultural extension, described the area a... |
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| Description: | Members of Pierce County's 4-H calf clubs on parade at a fair. |
| Date: | 08 1934 |
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| Description: | Building at the Tri-State Fair, outside of which a white pine tree dying from white pine blister rust is displayed. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland 1960, Joan Engh, poses with a winner at a regional Junior Livestock Exposition. Joan went on to become Miss Wisconsin in 1962, and she w... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of buggies following marchers in parade though town, making a right turn from Water Street to Main Street and heading west. In the b... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man, wearing a bow tie and straw boater hat, sitting on top of a giant ear of corn. A crowd of onlookers gather around the man, suggestin... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Advertisements and displays for the International Harvester Mogul 8-16 tractor announcing its plowing demonstration inside the "fair grounds". A man is sit... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A small crowd outside a large tent that adverstises "Reaper Motion Pictures." The tent is likely part of an International Harvester exhibit at a fair or ag... |
| Date: | 12 09 1924 |
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| Description: | A McCormick-Deering stationary engine powers a Ferris wheel at a fair. A sign advertising: "Princess Violet, Lilliputian" is in the background. |
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