Description: Family at the Ohio State Fair posed with their "Champion Pen of 3 Wethers", 1955. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00790
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Livestock; Expositions and fairs;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Boy holding a rooster from his "Champion Pen of 2 Fryers and Roasters," 1958. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00791
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Livestock; Expositions and fairs;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Display of award winning canned goods at the Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1992-1993. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01044
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Expositions and fairs;
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Young boy posed with his watermelon that won the blue ribbon for Largest and Best at the Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio, 1991. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01052
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Expositions and fairs;
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Grandstand and race track at the Wyandot County Fair, with a crowd waiting in anticipation. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07778
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Fairgrounds; Fairs--Ohio; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1890, this broadside advertises the 39th Annual Preble County Fair in Eaton, Ohio, from September 22-26. The image show two horses and their jockeys, neck-and-neck, during a harness race at the fair, with the grandstand to the left. The text below the image reads "The annual fair of the Preble County Agricultural Society will be held at Eaton, O. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Sept'r 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26, '90," "send for a premium list, competition open to all." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS4822
Subjects: Preble County (Ohio); Fairs--Ohio; Horse racing; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Agriculture
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: Poster advertising the Ohio State Fair, taking place August 31 through September 4, 1896. Notable events and highlights include horseless carriages, electric lights, band concerts, great floral shows and more. The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. The first fair was held in 1850, and after moving to various locations around the state for several decades, the event settled at its permanent location at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus in 1886. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04153
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial view of the Ohio State Fairgrounds, 1854. The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. The first fair was held in 1850, and after moving to various locations around the state for several decades, the event settled at its permanent location at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus in 1886. From September 19 through 22, 1854, the fair was held at Newark's Great Circle Mound (now known as Moundbuilders Park). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04155
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Newark, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Mounds--Ohio--Licking County
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Poster advertising the Ohio State Fair and Industrial Exhibition, August 29 through September 2, 1904. Highlighted on the poster are the trotting and pacing races and the livestock buildings. The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. The first fair was held in 1850, and after moving to various locations around the state for several decades, the event settled at its permanent location at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus in 1886. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04156
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Livestock
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: “Warren County Fairgrounds at Lebanon, Ohio. 4-H Club Bldg. July 14, 1936.” This photo shows two workers setting up the 4-H Club Building for the 1936 Warren County Fair. The first fair was organized by the Warren County Agricultural Society and held September 1850 at Osborn Grove. The Society greatly welcomed the 4-H program and developed a Junior Fair that became an added plus for the organization. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F07_040_001
Subjects: Warren County (Ohio)--Pictorial works; County fairs
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: “Warren County Fairgrounds at Lebanon, Ohio 3 New Horse Barns. July 14, 1936.” The first fair was organized by the Warren County Agricultural Society and held September 1850 at Osborn Grove. Warren County has been well-known for its feature of horses in the fair, including all-purpose horses, speed, roasters, draft, and thoroughbred events. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F07_039_001
Subjects: Warren County (Ohio)--Pictorial works; County fairs
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: This poster was printed by The Calvert Lithography Company in Detroit, Michigan, to advertise the Westerville Fair taking place October 2-4, 1895, in Westerville, Ohio. The image in the center shows jockeys and their horses racing on the track. Below the image, text lists new features of the fairgrounds, information on the horse races, transportation, and entertainment. The poster states that $10,000 was spent on improvements to the fairgrounds including a new grand stand and regulation race track, and boasts of the water works system. The fourteenth Regiment Band "will furnish music during the fair," and visitors can take the Columbus Central electric cars from Columbus to Westerville. The poster lists G.W. Meeker as President and Burr Linnabary as Secretary, presumably of the Westerville Fair Board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS4796
Subjects: Posters; Fairs; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Horse racing; Expositions and fairs
Places: Westerville (Ohio); Delaware (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)