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Somehow, I don’t think the county fair is quite what it used to be. Once a festive highlight of the year where you would meet and compete with other local families on everything from livestock to vegetable canning, today’s global connectivity and decreased reliance on agriculture have shrunk the need for and importance of local fairs. Too bad.
What’s really impressive inside the catalog are the pages of prize ribbons you could order. Rather than just show pictures of ribbons, they pasted in actual ribbons from recent (1920s) fairs. We’ll show you those in a future installment.