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Playground at the State Fair

Date: 
Description: Children playing on the playground at the State Fair. The children form lines to climb up the two tall ladders to slide down a pole. Several children are n...
Photograph

Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae Holiday Book Fair

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: A woman reads to two children at the First Unitarian Church on University Bay Drive prior to the upcoming Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae "Holiday Book Fair" that ...
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Photograph

Dane County Junior Fair 4-H Style Show

Date: 07 22 1961
Description: Carla Frye, Verona, models her Dane County Junior Fair 4-H style show dress for her dormitory "sisters" Sue Jalings, Oregon, seated left; Joyce Dvorak, Dee...
Photograph

Texas State Fair

Date: 1941
Description: Elevated view of the Texas State Fair, including some of the grounds and a large building with a sign reading: "Automobiles." Tractors are on display in fr...
National or State Registers Record

1201 East Division Street

Community: Neillsville
County: Clark
Historic Name: Wisconsin Pavilion
Reference Number: 12000021
Photograph

Phoenix Hosiery Window Display

Date: 06 23 1933
Description: Manchester's window display featuring Phoenix Hosiery manufactured at the Chicago Century of Progress World's Fair and featured as prizes in a contest. Cen...
Photograph

Pyrofax Plant

Date: 09 1929
Description: View across field towards the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, almost finished.
Photograph

Pyrofax Plant

Date: 09 1929
Description: View across field towards the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, almost finished.
Photograph

Madison Traction Company Repair Shop

Date: 1909
Description: The repair shop of the Madison Traction Company on Fair Oaks Avenue, with five streetcars and a team of horses in the foreground.
Photograph

Two Buildings on Street

Date: 
Description: Building along a street in town. Sign on one building advertises the Sparta Fair, August 24 to 27, 1897. Man and woman in horse-drawn wagon.
Photograph

Block Building

Date: 04 1981
Description: Concrete block building on old Madison Metro bus garage grounds, Fair Oaks Avenue at Gateway Place. Parking spots are available for the manager and the sup...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Vehicles in Residential Neighborhood

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Description: Elevated view of many horse-drawn vehicles on a main street in an unidentified rural village, perhaps at a farmer's fair. A crowd of men is standing outsid...
Map or Atlas

City of Galesville Wis. : Simplified Street Map, Section 2, Ordinance No. 121

Date: 1955
Description: This blue line print shows streets, fair grounds, schools, parks, and a cemetery. Streets, points of interest, and Lake Marinuka are labeled. The middle le...
Photograph

International Model A-3 Armored Truck

Date: 1933
Description: Armed officers and an armored truck owned by the Brinks Express Company outside the Italia building at the Chicago World's Fair "A Century of Progress" exh...
Photograph

Wisconsin Building at the St. Louis World's Fair

Date: 1904
Description: The Joseph Clauder Marching Band from Milwaukee pose in front of the Wisconsin Building at the St. Louis World's Fair. Clauder's band was one of the most p...
Photograph

Large Crowd at Fair Grounds

Date: 1938
Description: A large crowd of men, women, and children sit in the bleachers or stand along the edge of what appears to be the racetrack at the fair grounds. Behind 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...
Property Record

LINCOLN COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS

Community: Merrill
County: Lincoln
Historic Name: Stock Pavillion
Reference Number: 21888
Property Record

NE CORNER OF SUPERIOR AND TOWNSEND

Community: Portage
County: Columbia
Historic Name: Columbia County Fairgrounds
Reference Number: 56354

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