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New London County 4H Fair, Ledyard

DateAugust 1946

MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints on paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 7 11/16 x 9 5/8in. (19.5 x 24.4cm)
Sheet (height x width): 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)

Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund

DescriptionMen, women, boys, and girls at a country fair on the grassy lawn of a church with doric pilasters and shutters on a high stone basement. Tents are on the lawn, and the flags hang from ropes. Some photographs include folding chairs, folding tables, vegetables on plates, a man at a microphone, exhibits, a Texaco truck, a bulldozer, and a girl wearing pedal pushers and pigtails, holding a toy cow and a live cow by the halter. Signs read, "LEDYARD / CONGREGATIONAL / CHURCH / FOUNDED... / .... SERVICE / 9 A.M. / WELCOME" AND "JUNIOR / HOMEMAKERS"

Object number2003.180.1-.8

MarkingsStamped in purple ink, on verso, lower left, "AUG 24 1946".InscribedInscribed on verso: upper left, in purple ink, "Number [1-7]"; lower right, in pencil, accession number. 2003.180.1 is inscribed on verso in purple ink, "Roberta Hescock of North Stonington with / her Guernsey prize-winning Model Cow, judged / best-fitted cow at the New London County / 4-H Fair." Other photographs have inscriptions identifying those who ordered copies.

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