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Intersection of Main and Second Streets

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Description: Main Street storefronts, identified from left to right as: The Fair ["Bargains in Everything" on the awnings], and Eckern Jeweler. Banner across Main Stree...
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City Bakery on Main Street

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Description: Three men leaning and standing in front of the City Bakery. Large blocks of ice on the board sidewalk. Poster in the window is advertising the Jackson Coun...
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Group in Surrey

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Description: Three women and a man in a Spaulding surrey and two horse teams. Possibly the Spaulding family, and taken at the racetrack at the Jackson County Fairground...
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Buggies in Parade through Town

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Description: Slightly elevated view of buggies following marchers in parade though town, making a right turn from Water Street to Main Street and heading west. In the b...
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Family and Wagon at Fair Grounds

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Description: Woman and child posed sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse wearing a fly-net. A man is standing in front of them. The grandstand at the Jackson Coun...
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Sign Advertising "All Kinds of Bargains at the Fair"

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Description: A studio portrait of a sign which is advertising "All Kinds of Bargains at the Fair" and is surrounded by drawings of men and women. A painted backdrop can...
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Stallion at Jackson County Fairgrounds

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Description: Man displaying a stallion near a wooden fence and in front of several buggies and a boy standing on the left, probably at the Jackson County Fairgrounds. I...
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Scene at Country Fair

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Description: Elevated view of the scene at the country fair. In the foreground a crowd is gathered near a pavilion near the racetrack. In the background on the right is...
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Jackson County Fair Scene

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Description: Man displaying a horse, probably at the Jackson County Fairground, which is in the background, with a line of horses and buggies and a grandstand. A group ...
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Man Displaying a Horse

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Description: Man standing and displaying a horse outdoors. There are other men and children behind him on the left, and on the right is another horse. Perhaps a fairgro...
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Harnessed Horses at the Fair

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Description: Scene of the local fair, with men with horses wearing racing harnesses. A grandstand and other buildings are in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

Jackson County Fair Pamphlet

Date: 1963
Description: Pamphlet advertising the 1963 Jackson County Fair, which featured performances by country music stars Porter Wagoner, Del Woods, and Bonnie Sloan.

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