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Vendor selling initial pins at an outdoor fair stall – Vintage Wall Art

Vendor selling initial pins at an outdoor fair stall — historic image
Vendor selling initial pins at an outdoor fair stall. Historic image from the Barns & Farms collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Vendor selling initial pins at an outdoor fair stall comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Vendor selling initial pins at an outdoor fair stall

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A vendor's stall at an outdoor fair is the focus here, with small initial pins laid out for sale on a table or board. Fairs of this kind were a staple of rural American life through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing farm families to the grounds for livestock judging, produce contests, and the midway. Itinerant sellers brought trinkets, badges, and souvenirs that let visitors take home a small memento of the day. Look closely at the arrangement of the wares and the crowd around the stall to get a sense of how commerce and community mixed at these events.

Original scan4,832 × 3,417 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference1a34154u Initial pin souvenirs at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

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