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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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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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Musical Group at Louisiana State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A musical group comprised of men playing guitars, fiddles, an accordion, and a string bass perform on stage at the Louisiana State Fair.
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TV Broadcast at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A cow and its handlers standing under lighting to be filmed for a television broadcast at the Iowa State Fair.
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Betty Wells at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: Actress Betty Wells sitting next to a man, possibly a KRNT radio personality, for a simultaneous radio and television broadcast from the Iowa State Fair.
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International Harvester Headquarters Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: A crowd gathers around the International Harvester headquarters at the Iowa State Fair to watch a live broadcast from radio station KRNT.
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Wisconsin Building

Date: 1893
Description: The Wisconsin Building at the Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exposition).
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Merchandise Fair Pep Rally

Date: 10 24 1957
Description: Hi-jinks ensue as J.J. Hyman (Emporium), center, is held up by Edward Hobbins (American Exchange Bank),left, wearing cat mask, and Bonnie Riley (Emporium),...
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Queen of Alverno College

Date: 02 23 1958
Description: Carolyn Baier, 20, queen of the Alverno College club fair.
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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

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

Date: 05 14 1968
Description: Three young women are sitting on one side of a table facing two men and a woman, whose backs are to the camera. Similar arrangements of groups are in the b...

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