Fairs
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 18 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
Alexander Heron collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0860
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence and complimentary fair tickets from across Indiana sent to the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, Alexander Heron. Ranging from 1885 to 1890, the collection includes tickets from community, county, and district fairs; Trotting and Pace Horse Breeders' Association fairs; Agricultural Association, Agricultural Society, and Agricultural and Mechanical Society fairs; Joint Stock Association and Joint Stock Society fairs; Farmers' Union Association...
Dates:
1885-1890
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alexander Heron collection
Balloon ascension circular
Collection — Folder S3429
Identifier: S3429
Dates:
1873
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Balloon ascension circular
Craig A. Martindale photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P054
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 35mm slides, film, and papers most likely from Craig A. Martindale in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1983 to 1996, undated regarding family, county fairs, a 1992 fountain dedication at Butler University, vacations, agriculture, business, presentations, astronomy and astronautics, and 1996 finalists for the Ernst and Young LLP (EY) Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Some of the images seem to be guide and stock images used in business slide presentations.
Dates:
1983-1996, undated
Edinburg Union Agricultural Society collection
Collection — Folder S1970
Identifier: S1970
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a commercially printed ticket from Edinburg Union Agricultural Society in Johnson County, Indiana during 1882 regarding free admission to fair.
Dates:
1882
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