Indiana State Fair
Organization
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Advertising cards and ephemera collection
Collection — Folder: S3117
Identifier: S3117
Scope and Contents
This collection includes advertising cards, tickets, calling cards, a postcard, and pamphlets from various businesse enterprises and organizations in Indianapolis, Indiana and New York, New York, ranging from circa 1860 to 1935 regarding products such as tonics and curatives, soap, coffee, and tickets to fairs and sporting, club, and public speaking events. Many of the cards appear to have been removed from a scrapbook.
Dates:
circa 1860-1935
Indiana Democratic ticket and Indiana State Fair advertisement
Collection — Folder: S3500
Identifier: S3500
Content Description
This collection includes a straight-party voting flyer from the Indiana Democratic Party dated 1880 and an Indiana State Fair advertisement dated 1900 showing older attendees going to the fair would turn them into children again.
Dates:
1880, 1900
Indiana Department of Natural Resources conservation photograph collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: P076
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white photographs from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and its predecessor, the Department of Conservation, in Indiana ranging from 1921 to circa 1970 and undated, regarding the activities of the state agency, its personnel, and the resources under its oversight. Some of the photographs appear to have been used in a publication, possibly the department's periodical, Outdoor Indiana, with a few images featuring...
Dates:
1921-circa 1970, undated
Indiana State Department of Agriculture, Indiana State Fair photograph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SP076
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from the Indiana State Department of Agriculture in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1900 to 1927 regarding the Indiana State Fair and its various exhibits, venues, shows, buildings, and grounds.
Dates:
circa 1900-1927
Indiana State Fair calendars
Collection — Folder: OB138
Identifier: OB138
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 2 Indiana State Fair calendars for the year 1966.
Dates:
1966
Indiana State Fair collection
Collection — Folder: S1980
Identifier: S1980
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a commercially printed card from Braden and Burford in Indianapolis, Indiana regarding the Indiana State Fair, a brochure for the Hook's Historic Drug Store and Pharmacy Museum, and a newspaper clipping of "Hoosier Listening Post" by Katie Milner Rabb.
Dates:
circa 1851-1920s
Indiana State Fair racing programs
Collection — Folder: OB141
Identifier: OB141
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two official racing programs from the Indiana State Fair that took place September 4-10, 1948.
Dates:
1948/09
Indiana State Fairgrounds collection
Collection — Folder: OBC228
Identifier: OBC228
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a seating diagram for the livestock show pavilion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds and was created most likely during the 20th century by architects, Rubush and Hunter in Indianapolis, Indiana. As well as copies of blueprints of the Normandy Barn advertising its relocation and an invitation.
Dates:
20th-21st century
Indiana State Fairgrounds, Manufacturers Building map
Collection — Folder: S3439
Identifier: S3439
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one map of the booths and booth space at the Manufacturers Building at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1928.
Dates:
circa 1928
John Brown Dillon collection
Collection
Identifier: L377
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of John B. Dillon’s historical notes on people and events relating to the early exploration and settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest. Also included is a scrapbook of Dillon’s letters published in newspapers on the U.S. Civil War, the Republican Party, and Indiana history (1861–1876); letters to Dillon regarding the Historical Society, the Indiana Sanitary Fair (1864), and Dillon’s historical work; and a memorial by John Coburn on the life of John Brown...
Dates:
1859-1886
