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| Description: | Men preparing their sheep for judging at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
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| Description: | Crowd of people in front of the Education Building at the State Fair. Caption reads: "Education Building, Wisconsin State Fair, Milwaukee." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd outside the entrance to the Grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Color brochure advertising the 1948 Wisconsin State Fair. For the centennial of Wisconsin statehood Wisconsin spent over 5 Million dollars on fourteen new ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | East door of the Livestock Judging Pavilion at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to complete the positioning of the "Forward" statue at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The grandstand can be seen in the ba... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A WPA program on the State Fair Grounds. The workers have dug a long trench, and the project probably concerns improved sanitary facilities for the fair, a... |
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| Description: | Fairgoers walk past the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair. The sign on the front reads: Women's Dept." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Poultry Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing some poultry on display. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The Fruits and Flowers Building at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
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| Description: | 4-H Club band playing near the Police Station at the Wisconsin State Fair. In the background is the Agriculture Department's Milk House. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowds strolling through the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. In the background is a Ferris wheel, and a banner encouraging fair goers to "tal... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Department of Agriculture's "All You Can Drink for Ten Cents" milk booth at the Wisconsin State Fair. On the roof is a cow crafted from a bale of hay. ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Crowds walking past the Horticulture Building at the Wiconsin State Fair. In a pavilion above the building the Aluminum Goose Manufacturing Co. Band of Ma... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the crowds in the Wisconsin Industry Building and the building's unusual art deco decoration. Few photographs depict African Americans at ... |
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| Description: | Summer camp for Wisconsin farm women on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair, with Wisconsin home economics leader Nellie Kedzie Jones. Mrs. Jones is pr... |
| Community: | West Allis |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | WISCONSIN STATE FAIR PARK |
| Reference Number: | 9218 |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | The History Building at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The building was one of several new buildings, all of a modern, forward looking design, comple... |
| View a pictorial review of the Wisconsin State Fair from 1851 when it began. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A crowd watches a young man throwing a baton into the air at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Behind him is the "Alice In Dairyland" building, featurin... |
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