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
George T. Bryant papers
Collection — Folder: S186
Identifier: S0186
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed document from George T. Bryant in New York ranging from 1904-1910 regarding his teen-age years in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dates:
1904-1910
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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George T. Bryant papers
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 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 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
International Dairy Exposition records
Collection
Identifier: L394
Scope and Contents
This collection includes administrative records, correspondence, financial records, publications, and realia from Chester Parker in Indianapolis ranging from 1947 to 1951 regarding International Dairy Exposition Inc. Notable items include a page listing Wendell L. Willkie's wife as the chairman of the Women's National Advisory Committee in 1950, catalogs of entries for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd annual exposition, ticket passes, stickers, and flags.
Dates:
1947-1951
William Elmer Henry collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0639
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 2 copies of W. E. Henry's article, "Thirty-Five Years Looking Backward", which appeared in the July-September, 1932 edition of the Indiana State Library's publication,Library Occurrent, and describes how he became the director of the Indiana State Library and the changes that took place during his tenure (1897-1906). The collection also contains Henry's autobiography, "Through Seventy-Seven Years, Nov. 1857-Nov. 1934: His Own Story", a letter of recommendation for Henry...
Dates:
1856-1934
