[County or state fair in New England: large group outside fair building] – Historic Photograph Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures [County or state fair in New England: large group outside fair building] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[County or state fair in New England: large group outside fair building]
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A large crowd gathered outside a fair building at a New England county or state fair in 1922, the kind of group portrait that was common at the time. Agricultural fairs in the region had run for generations, with exhibition halls for produce, livestock, canned goods, and domestic handiwork, and by the 1920s growing numbers of visitors were arriving by automobile and interurban rail. Photographs like this one show how these events served as a meeting point for farm families, townspeople, and exhibitors. The staging of so many people in front of one building also gives a sense of the fair as a civic occasion.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [1922] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,255 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123619 |
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