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Indiana State Fair

 Organization

Found in 7 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 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