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Fire Trucks

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Description: Elevated view of a crowd walking among fire trucks parked in rows at an outdoor fairgrounds.
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Steam Engine Days

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Description: A man, wearing a white cap reading "Strum Steam Engine Days," is driving a small, vintage narrow gauge train. People are riding in the train cars behind hi...
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...
Photograph

Wood Carving at the Logging Congress

Date: 09 1976
Description: A man is carving a face onto a log using a chainsaw. Other men are looking at chainsaws displayed on a pile of birch tree logs. A sign on a trailer behind ...
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"Sahara" Truck Loaded with Sandbags

Date: 10 31 1928
Description: A "Sahara" truck, loaded heavily with sandbags, is sitting in deep sand in an exhibition at a fair. A large building is in the background.
Photograph

Display at Exhibit with Tent

Date: 10 31 1928
Description: View across fairgrounds towards an International Harvester exhibit tent. The open-sided tent has a man driving a truck loaded heavily with sandbags, a man ...
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Trucks on Display at Fair

Date: 10 31 1928
Description: A dump truck and other trucks on display underneath an International Harvester tent at a fair.
Photograph

Demonstration of a One Ton Truck, Two Ton Load

Date: 03 06 1929
Description: View towards a man driving a Six Speed special truck up a wooden ramp, on what may be fairgrounds. The sign along the side of the truck reads: "Internation...
Photograph

Demonstration of a One Ton Truck, Two Ton Load

Date: 03 06 1929
Description: View towards a man driving a Six Speed special truck on top of a wooden ramp, on what may be fairgrounds. The sign along the side of the truck reads: "Inte...
Photograph

Demonstration of a One Ton Truck, Two Ton Load

Date: 03 06 1929
Description: View towards a man driving a Six Speed special truck up to the top of a wooden ramp, on what may be fairgrounds. The sign along the side of the truck reads...
Photograph

International Harvester Company Parade Float for "A Century of Progress"

Date: 1934
Description: International Harvester Company parade float for the "A Century of Progress" Worlds Fair. This is the front section of the two-section float, and it is par...
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International Harvester Company Parade Float for "A Century of Progress"

Date: 1934
Description: International Harvester Company parade float for the "A Century of Progress" Worlds Fair. This is the front section of the two-section float, and it is par...
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

Spring Green Fair

Date: 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Spring Green Fair." A parade through a town on an unpaved road. A horse-drawn buggy is decorated with "Erin Go Bragh" flags and folia...
Photograph

Young Fairgoers

Date: 08 19 1956
Description: Two young women are standing in a building with their luggage at their feet. There are several women are in the background near a First Aid sign. Caption r...
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...
Photograph

Students for a Democratic Society Booth — Marquette University

Date: 10 22 1966
Description: A young man and woman are seated at a booth and speaking to one or more people who have their backs to the camera. Behind them is a sign that reads: "le bo...
Postcard

Stock Fair Day

Date: 07 27 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "Stock Fair Day, Stevens Point, Wis." Elevated view of eople, horse-drawn sleds, piles of hay and wood fill the square for Stock Fair ...
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Viking Ship

Date: 1893
Description: View of a replica Viking Ship that sailed from Norway to the United States for the Columbian Exposition in 1893. Three men are standing on shore in front o...

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