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At the Vermont state fair, Rutland – Antique Print

At the Vermont state fair, Rutland — historic image
At the Vermont state fair, Rutland. 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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Step back in time with At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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At the Vermont state fair, Rutland

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Rutland's state fair grounds, as this scene records them, were a gathering point for Vermont farm families who came to show livestock, compare crops, and trade news. County and state fairs like this one were among the central rural institutions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when agriculture was still the economic backbone of the region. Fairs offered judging rings, exhibit halls, and midway amusements side by side, so a visitor could spend a day on both farm business and social life. Scenes like this one are useful for seeing how the fairgrounds were laid out and how crowds dressed and moved through them.

Original scan4,612 × 3,331 px · prints to 15 × 11 in at 300 dpi
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