Iowa State Fair and Exposition Grounds Historic District
Author | : William C. Page |
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Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fairs |
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Author | : William C. Page |
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Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fairs |
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Author | : Ron Playle |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738540375 |
More than 190 vintage postcards provide glimpses of the historic fair from the 1890s through the mid-1950s. The quintessential event has an attendance topping 1 million each year.
Author | : William B. Friedricks |
Publisher | : Business Publications Corporation Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Agricultural exhibitions |
ISBN | : 9780996521345 |
"For decades, the Iowa State Fair was considered the classic summer exposition; it was what most Americans envisioned when they thought of a state fair. But years of neglect almost destroyed the once grand, turn-of-the-century fairgrounds. After a number of efforts to save the facility failed, the Iowa State Fair Board created the Blue Ribbon Foundation, hoping it could raise millions of dollars needed to restore the grounds. It worked, succeeding beyond the board's wildest dreams. Under the longtime leadership of John Putney and now guided by Peter Cownie, the foundation has raised an amazing $135 million since its creation 25 years ago. Author William Friedricks takes you behind the scenes of the roller coaster ride of ups and downs of the Iowa State Fair's long history, leading up to the Blue Ribbon Foundation and the remarkable renaissance it brought about at the Iowa State Fair Grounds, now bigger and better than ever." --]ccover page 4.
Author | : Iowa State Fair Board |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Agricultural exhibitions |
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Vols. include the Proceedings of the State Agricultural Convention and the Proceedings of the Iowa County and District Fair Managers' Convention.
Author | : Chris Rasmussen |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2015-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609383583 |
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.
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Total Pages | : 1114 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Agricultural exhibitions |
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Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2014-08 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1609382781 |
In 2013, Kurt Ullrich set out to chronicle the magic of the Iowa State Fair in words and photographs. Join him as August days and nights blow warm and easy over the fairgrounds, brushing lightly against fellow travelers on this earth, both human and not. He captures precious moments of extreme joy and unbridled delight in these beautiful black-and-white images, celebrating the brash rural energy of the fair, from Big Wheel races to people-watching goats, fair queen contestants to arm wrestlers, Percherons to ponies. Prize pigs, prize sheep, prize apples, and the famous butter cow all have their moment in the limelight. Iowa's very best ear of corn and old friends reminiscing outside their RVs draw the photographer's fond eye, as do brightly lit beer stands and the brilliant arc of the Ferris wheel against the night sky.
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Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
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Lists buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts that possess historical significance as defined by the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, in every state.
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Publisher | : Preservation Press |
Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Agricultural exhibitions |
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