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Champion Steers

Date: 10 24 1934
Description: Friends Homer Graber and Gilbert May of Mineral Point are showing their baby beef calves that won the grand champion and reserve champion titles at the Liv...
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Children at County Fair

Date: 1925
Description: Children with heifers at a county fair in Northern Wisconsin.
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Elmer the Bull

Date: 1951
Description: Elmer, "husband" of Elsie the Cow, advertising mascot of the Borden Company, is shown with a young woman as he was being readied for participation as one o...
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Bovine Bath

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Description: A man hoses off a bovine participant at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Reluctant Cows at Fairgrounds

Date: 07 16 1971
Description: Bette Brown of Hartland pulls her somewhat reluctant cows across the midway at the Waukesha County Fairgrounds.
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Livestock Judging at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1960
Description: An audience watches and judges stand by as cattle are lined up to be judged in a pavilion at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Cattle Parade at the Fair

Date: 1900
Description: Annual cattle parade at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Holstein-Friesian Exhibit

Date: 1920
Description: Exhibit of the Waukesha County Holstein-Friesian Breeders Association at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Mechanical Cow at the Museum of Science and Industry

Date: 1946
Description: A man is working on a mechanical cow in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
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Calf Competition

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Description: Competitors in the calf judging lining up with their animals at the Portage County fair.
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Livestock Exposition Shampoo

Date: 1959
Description: Competitors in the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Exposition washing their animals outdoors before the judging.
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Livestock Exposition Judging

Date: 1959
Description: Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan...
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Livestock Judging

Date: 09 1953
Description: A young woman shows her entry in the Central Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition.
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Cattle Fair Panorama

Date: 10 24 1863
Description: Panoramic wood-engraving of a cattle fair in New Haven, after a sketch by H.C. Curtis. Caption reads: "Cattle Show and Agricultural Faib [sic] at Ha...
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Oxen at Eastern States Exposition

Date: 1935
Description: A team of oxen pulls a pallet of what appear to be cement blocks on a skid at the Eastern States Exposition, while onlookers gather on either side to watch...
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Walworth County Fair

Date: 1945
Description: Young people on the fairgrounds stand in front of a tent with calves competing at the fair. Richard Quinney stands on the far right.
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Southern Cattle Men Convention Display

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men stand near a bull in a hallway of Hotel Grunewald during the Southern Cattlemen Convention. A sign reading: "Bogalusa Brand Owned by Great S...
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Dane County Junior Fair

Date: 07 26 1952
Description: Olson youth with his calf at the Dane County Junior Fair.

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