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KY State Fair Louisville 1916 PHOTO – Vintage Photo Print

KY State Fair Louisville 1916 PHOTO, 1916 — historic image
KY State Fair Louisville 1916 PHOTO, 1916. 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 KY State Fair Louisville 1916 PHOTO, 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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KY State Fair Louisville 1916 PHOTO

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The Kentucky State Fair, held in Louisville, drew farm families from across the state to see livestock, produce, and machinery under one roof, and by 1916 it was a fixture of the rural calendar. The record gives little beyond the title and date, so the picture is best read as a window onto the county fair circuit of the period, when exhibition halls, judging rings, and crowds of visitors marked the high point of the agricultural year. Fairs like this one were where growers compared stock and new equipment, and they remain useful to historians tracing how farm life and local commerce met in the early twentieth century.

Created / published1916
Original scan2,200 × 424 px · prints to 7 × 1 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceKY-State-Fair-Louisville-19

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