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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Dane County fairgrounds, including several buildings and a track. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | The State Fairgrounds where a 200-mile "big car" race took place. The park is one of the five largest outdoor expositions in the country. |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of field area with four buildings in the background. Caption reads: "Wausau Fair Grounds, Wausau, Wis." |
| Date: | 10 31 1956 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lester Paul, Homecrafter Chairman for the University League, and Mrs. Irving Raznikov, Homecrafter Chairman of the Easter Seal Society, displaying hom... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd on Palm Avenue at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Fransisco, California, 1915. Several ornate buildings can be seen near the cr... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester crawler tractors (TracTracTors) showing the tractors laying "groundwork for the New York World's Fair, 1939"... |
| 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: | 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front and back of an advertising folder produced by the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features illustrations of a young gi... |
| 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: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Horse pulling contest at an unidentified Wisconsin county fair. At the time, farmers were making the transition from horse-drawn equipment to tractors and ... |
| Date: | 1989 |
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| Description: | Red Ford Mustangs are a center of attention at the 1989 Iola Old Car Show. |
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| Description: | Main Street storefronts, identified from left to right as: The Fair ["Bargains in Everything" on the awnings], and Eckern Jeweler. Banner across Main Stree... |
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| Description: | Three men leaning and standing in front of the City Bakery. Large blocks of ice on the board sidewalk. Poster in the window is advertising the Jackson Coun... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster featuring color illustration of a crowd gathered around a Deering grain binder and mower at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. |
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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: | Competitors in the calf judging lining up with their animals at the Portage County fair. |
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