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MN Minnesota State Fair 1 1909 PHOTO – Historic Photograph Print

MN Minnesota State Fair 1 1909 PHOTO, 1909 — historic image
MN Minnesota State Fair 1 1909 PHOTO, 1909. 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 MN Minnesota State Fair 1 1909 PHOTO, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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MN Minnesota State Fair 1 1909 PHOTO

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The Minnesota State Fair, held in Saint Paul, drew crowds of farm families and city visitors every late summer, and by 1909 it had become one of the most important showcases for the state's agriculture and livestock breeding. Fairs of this era served as a kind of traveling classroom, where new machinery, prize animals and improved crops were displayed side by side with the midway entertainments. The record gives only the title and year, so this picture is best read as a window onto that scene: the fairgrounds and barns where Minnesota's rural life met the growing city.

Created / published1909
Original scan2,200 × 519 px · prints to 7 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceMN-Minnesota-State-Fair-1-1

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