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The Humours of a Fair, or, a Description of the Early Amusements in Life, Edinburgh, 1819
See here’s drunken Will,
Who did nothing but swill,
Pray hiss at the fool as you pass;
He has spent all his pence,
He has lost all his sense,
And is now dwindled down to an ass.
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A Red Cross booth at a wartime carnival, Larwill Park (Cambie street grounds), Vancouver, 1918
New Westminster agricultural fair, British Columbia, 1904
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Shelby County fair-goers eating a picnic lunch, Shelbyville, Kentucky,
August 1940
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July 4th celebrations, Ashville, Ohio, 1938
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Nudist Colony sideshow, July 4th carnival, Ashville, Ohio, 1938
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Barker takes a drink, state fair in Rutland, Vermont,
September 1941
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Girls Swing Time, evening at the state fair, Rutland, Vermont, September 1937
