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Idlewild, fair grounds, Easton, Md. – Historic Reproduction

Idlewild, fair grounds, Easton, Md., [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Idlewild, fair grounds, Easton, Md., [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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: Idlewild, fair grounds, Easton, Md., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Idlewild, fair grounds, Easton, Md.

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Idlewild is the name on this card for the fairgrounds at Easton, the county seat of Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, so the picture points to a specific local venue rather than a generic fair. The caption card gives no date, but its subject tags, fairs and horse racing, suggest a racing track set inside a fairground, a common arrangement at rural agricultural fairs in the decades around 1900. Such grounds drew farm families, exhibitors and horse owners from across the region. The Wittemann Collection at the Library of Congress holds many photographs of this kind, so the image is worth reading for its setting as well as its subject. The record's details are unverified and come from an old card.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesWittemann Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fairs; Geogr.; Horse racing.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171194

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