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The Alabama State Fair - the Amphitheatre – Antique Print

The Alabama State Fair - the Amphitheatre, 1858 — antique engraving
The Alabama State Fair - the Amphitheatre, 1858. Antique engraving from the Barns & Farms collection.

(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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A window into the past: The Alabama State Fair - the Amphitheatre, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Alabama State Fair - the Amphitheatre

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The amphitheatre at the Alabama State Fair is the subject of this wood engraving, which Harper's Weekly printed in its second volume in 1858. Harper's, a New York illustrated weekly founded in 1857, relied on engravings like this to show readers scenes they could not visit themselves. Antebellum state fairs brought farmers, stock breeders and townspeople together to show livestock, crops and machinery, and a large open structure like this would have served as a gathering place for the crowds. The date and details come from an older caption card, so they merit checking.

Created / published1858
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesIllus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, p. 757, (1858). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,283 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124769

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