To celebrate this year’s Minnesota State Fair, the Item of the Day blog is offering  a series of posts featuring artifacts, art and photographs from fairs past. Look for a new post every weekday until August 31.

Trophy awarded to a team of horses at the 1914 Minnesota State Fair.  The team, based in Minneapolis, participated in a parade of delivery horses owned by the E.S. Donaldson Company.

For details, view the photograph in our online collections database.

Learn More:

• Spectacular Fair: the Minnesota State Fair podcast
• Minnesota State Fair in Archival Film Footage podcast