Author:
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Category : Waukesha (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Centennial Directory and Historical Souvenir, February, 1938
Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Allen County Lines
A Reference List of Books and Other Publications Associated with the New Zealand Centennial, 1840-1940
Wisconsin Library Bulletin
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Australian National Bibliography, 1901-1950: Main sequence, 23,666-49,436
Carnival in the Countryside
Author: Chris Rasmussen
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609383583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the state’s central institution, event, and symbol. New Jersey has the Shore; Kentucky has the Derby; Iowa has the Fair. The humble Iowa State Fairground ranks alongside the Great Pyramids at Giza and the Taj Mahal in the best-selling travel guide 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. During its annual run each August, the fair attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors who make the pilgrimage to the fairground to see the iconic butter cow, to ride the Old Mill, to walk through the livestock barns, and to people-watch. At the same time that they enjoy fried candy bars and roller coasters, Iowans also compete to raise the best corn and zucchinis, to make the best jams and jellies, to rear the finest sheep and goats, the largest cattle and hogs, and the handsomest horses. This tension between entertainment and agriculture goes back all the way to the fair’s founding in the mid-1800s, as historian Chris Rasmussen shows in this thought-provoking history. The fair’s founders had lofty aims: they sought to improve agriculture and foster a distinctively democratic American civilization. But from the start these noble intentions jostled up against people’s desire to have fun and make money, honestly or otherwise—not least because the fair had to pay for itself. In their effort to uplift rural life without going broke, the organizers of the Iowa State Fair debated the respectability of horse racing and gambling and struggled to find qualified livestock judges. Worried about the economic forces undermining rural families, they ran competitions to select the best babies and the “ideal” rural girl and boy while luring spectators with massive panoramas of earthquakes and fires, not to mention staged trainwrecks. In short, the Iowa State Fair has as much to tell us about human nature and American history as it does about growing corn.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609383583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the state’s central institution, event, and symbol. New Jersey has the Shore; Kentucky has the Derby; Iowa has the Fair. The humble Iowa State Fairground ranks alongside the Great Pyramids at Giza and the Taj Mahal in the best-selling travel guide 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. During its annual run each August, the fair attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors who make the pilgrimage to the fairground to see the iconic butter cow, to ride the Old Mill, to walk through the livestock barns, and to people-watch. At the same time that they enjoy fried candy bars and roller coasters, Iowans also compete to raise the best corn and zucchinis, to make the best jams and jellies, to rear the finest sheep and goats, the largest cattle and hogs, and the handsomest horses. This tension between entertainment and agriculture goes back all the way to the fair’s founding in the mid-1800s, as historian Chris Rasmussen shows in this thought-provoking history. The fair’s founders had lofty aims: they sought to improve agriculture and foster a distinctively democratic American civilization. But from the start these noble intentions jostled up against people’s desire to have fun and make money, honestly or otherwise—not least because the fair had to pay for itself. In their effort to uplift rural life without going broke, the organizers of the Iowa State Fair debated the respectability of horse racing and gambling and struggled to find qualified livestock judges. Worried about the economic forces undermining rural families, they ran competitions to select the best babies and the “ideal” rural girl and boy while luring spectators with massive panoramas of earthquakes and fires, not to mention staged trainwrecks. In short, the Iowa State Fair has as much to tell us about human nature and American history as it does about growing corn.
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
Author: American Academy in Rome
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description