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Horse Race at Camp Randall Fairgrounds

Date: 09 10 1879
Description: Crowd at the Camp Randall fairgrounds watching a horse race, part of that year's Wisconsin State Fair. Carriages and people are near buildings on the left,...
Manuscript

Century Grills Menu

Date: 1933
Description: Front cover and interior of menu for the Century Grills at the 1937 World's Fair. On the cover is a black and white photograph of a fair building, and silv...
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 ...
Property Record

JEFFERSON AVE

Community: Chippewa Falls
County: Chippewa
Historic Name: Northern Wisconsin State Fair Grounds
Reference Number: 3232
Photograph

Scene at Country Fair

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the scene at the country fair. In the foreground a crowd is gathered near a pavilion near the racetrack. In the background on the right is...
Photograph

Adams County Fair

Date: 1990
Description: A male teen is posing with a prize sheep at the Adams County Fair.
Photograph

Industry Building at the Fair

Date: 
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 ...
Document

1893 World's Fair Award, Appleton Woolen Mills

Date: 1893
Description: Award certificate presented to the Appleton Woolen Mills at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The company won a bronze medal at the Fair for its paper makers...
Photograph

International Motor Trucks at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view looking down at the International Motor truck display at the Wisconsin State Fair. Every truck in the display was sold to a customer and lett...
Property Record

186 W Forest St

Community: Rosholt
County: Portage
Historic Name: Hill Top Park Rosholt Community Hall
Reference Number: 245844
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin

Date: 1860
Description: Map showing a plat of the city, land ownership by name, wards by number, local streets, buildings, fair grounds, nurseries, and part of Rock River. The map...
Map or Atlas

Whitewater, Walworth Co., Wis.

Date: 1858
Description: This map is hand-colored and mounted on cloth and shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, landownership, streets, railroads, selected buildings, fair g...
Map or Atlas

Street Name and Building Numbering System, City of Jefferson, Jefferson County, Wis.

Date: 06 1959
Description: This blue line print map shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, fair grounds, schools, court house, parks, and the street numbering system. The Crawfi...
Photograph

Official World's Fair Cleaner

Date: 06 22 1933
Description: A man with garment bags over his shoulder leans against an International truck at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair in Chicago. The truck was operat...
Photograph

Wisconsin Building

Date: 1893
Description: The Wisconsin Building at the Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exposition).
Photograph

International Motor Trucks at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1940
Description: View of a group of International Motor trucks on display outdoors at the Wisconsin State Fair. Every truck in the display was sold to a customer and letter...
Photograph

International Motor Trucks at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1940
Description: View of a group of International Harvester trucks on display outdoors at the Wisconsin State Fair. Every truck in the display was sold to a customer and le...
Photograph

Aerial View of Residential Area

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Valley Fair Mall, with a residential area beyond it on both sides of a river, all surrounded by trees and farmland.
Photograph

Construction Work at San Francisco World's Fair

Date: 10 15 1938
Description: Adams Motor Grader #102 owned by Eaton & Smith at the back entrance of the San Francisco World's Fair. The motor grader was powered by an International pow...
Photograph

Construction Work at San Francisco World's Fair

Date: 1938
Description: A man operates an Adams Motor Grader #102 owned by Eaton & Smith at the back entrance of the San Francisco World's Fair. The motor grader was powered by an...

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