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A daredevil jumps his car over a bus during a program in the grandstand at the Minnesota State Fair. Captured by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on August 27, 1944.
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View from the top of the Ferris Wheel on the Midway of the 1944 Minnesota State Fair. Captured by a Minneapolis newspaper photographer on August 28, 1944.
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Dress made out of butter cartons worn by Mary Ann Titrud (Princess Kay of the Milky Way) at the 1965 Minnesota State Fair to promote the American Dairy Association of Minnesota.
The dress has a Bertha collar and center back zipper; hook-and-eye closure at the collar; and a matching lined capelet with a center front opening and plain rounded neckline edged in rick rack. A band with hidden buttons and snaps holds the cape and neckline in place. The A-line skirt has a waistline band with two plastic buttons and buttonholes in front and an inverted front pleat edged in rick rack. Round-cornered squares have been cut out from one-pound butter cartons representing various Minnesota creameries and machine-stitched onto the cape and skirt in horizontal rows to a stiffened interfacing.
Silk, velvet, taffeta and satin crazy quilt attributed to Anna and Orena Teachout, dressmakers from Farmington, Minnesota who worked in Owatonna and St. Paul. Cordelia Teachout may have also contributed to the quilt’s construction. The quilt is accompanied by an 1885 State Fair ribbon which reads, “27th Annual State Fair/ J.H. Mahler Co./ Carriages, Sleighs, Harness etc./ St. Paul/ 1885.”
For details, view the quilt in our online collections database.
Today’s post concludes our series highlighting State Fair-related artifacts (although the Fair runs through Labor Day, September 3). If you missed a post, you can browse our archive of the series, which showcased a painting, a pig, a trophy awarded to a team of horses, a 1965 postcard, a milk pail and a 1918 bread-baking demonstration.
Winter bonnet made by Lucretia Brush Pomroy circa 1858 and exhibited by Pomroy’s granddaughter, Alice Pomroy, at the 1955 Minnesota State Fair. The channel-quilted bonnet is of black and purple checked silk with quilted curtain and damask silk ribbon ties.
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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.
Photograph of a bread-baking demonstration given by a Minnesota Boys and Girls Club (branch unknown) at the 1918 Minnesota State Fair. Photographer unknown.
For details, view the photograph in our online collections database.
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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.
Milk pail souvenir distributed at the 1950 Minnesota State Fair. Made by the Perfection Manufacturing Corporation of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
For details, view the pail in our online collections database.
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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.
Paper postcard commemorating the 1965 Minnesota State Fair. A color image on the card’s obverse depicts an auto race held in the grandstand.
For details, view the postcard in our online collections database.
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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.
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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.
Photoprint on paper of a pig and spectators at the 1905 Minnesota State Fair. Photographer unknown.
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