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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | International Harvester tent and exhibition at the Iowa State Fair. Includes workers filming Iowa's first television show and a high school brass band ente... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A scene from the Greendale Civilian Defense Rally. Mothers and children sit at a picnic table outside of the "Bendfelt House of Fine Ice Cream" stand opera... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of crowd gathered at a Civilian Defense Rally. Booths are in the background, including a game booth where you can "Deflate The Axis,... |
| Date: | 09 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Juggler performing at the Harvest Festival Dance sponsored by Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company), State Fair Park. |
| Date: | 09 03 1943 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer & Company Coolerator display at the West Side Business Men's Harvest Festival. The Oscar Mayer Coolerator Store was located at 401-405 State St... |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Coolerator refrigerator booth at the East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival. The Oscar Mayer Coolerator Store was located at 401-405 State Stre... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Hundreds of motorcycles are parked side by side in rows in a Wisconsin State Fair parking lot. The grandstand and spectators appear in the background of t... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h... |
| Date: | 08 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Two couples in Hungarian costumes, one man holding a scythe (kasza), admiring a sheaf of wheat in a wheat field. The twig tied to the scythe in a triangle ... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 07 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Racers heading into the curve in front of the grandstand at a county fair harness race. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A musical group comprised of men playing guitars, fiddles, an accordion, and a string bass perform on stage at the Louisiana State Fair. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers outside a barn advertising the "KFH Barn Dance" at the Kansas State Fair. A sign on the barn reads: "Radio Station KFH; 1330 On Your Dial; ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | An audience watching a musical group put on a show in a tent at the Kansas State Fair. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers underneath a tent near an International Harvester sign and farm machines at the Kansas State Fair. The sign on the building in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A drinking fountain "Cooled by International Milk Cooler" stands in front of the International Harvester booth at the Texas State Fair. The title on the si... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A group of onlookers gathers around a McCormick reaper replica display at the Iowa State Fair. The sign behind the reaper reads: "McCormick Reaper Built 15... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Several people get off a school bus used to transport fairgoers from downtown Des Moines to the Iowa State Fair. The sign on the side of the bus reads: 'Fi... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A group of radio broadcasters working from a radio control room at the Iowa State Fair. An International Harvester clock is mounted on the booth's outside ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| 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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