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Granger Fairs: The World's Fair and the Circus Field

Section 85 of 89 in the Granger record · 3 entry pages

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Fairs · The World's Fair and the Circus Field: Two Tests, Run Whole

The city at the World's Fair: Chicago, 1893

THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION · MAY 1 – OCTOBER 1893

The test was run for an exhibit sent from this ground — a Clay or Harris township exhibitor, exhibit or exhibit-committee name at the World's Columbian Exposition — and it returns no exhibit; but the fair touches this ground's…

Fair-type ground: the circus field, separated from the fair itself

THE CIRCUS TEST · ROUTE RECORD 1904–1911 READ, AND THE GROUND TESTED

The circus is fair-type ground — a travelling exhibition on an open lot, with a parade, a crowd and a one-day stand — and the checklist requires it separated from the fair and tested on its own; the test has two halves, the route…

Fairs: Not Found and Still Open

THE RECORD AS IT STANDS · NOVEMBER 2026

TESTED NEGATIVE — a World's Fair exhibit from this ground (row 6). Searched: the Indiana commission record as published in the magazine-history literature; Howard's fairs passage and township record; the state record's exhibits…

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Source: Granger Fairs: The World's Fair and the Circus Field, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/fairs/