Massachusetts Agricultural Fairs Posters Collection
With one of the first agricultural fairs in the country taking place in Massachusetts in 1807, the state has a special place in the history of agricultural fairs in the United States. Twenty antebellum posters promoting agricultural fairs in western Massachusetts, primarily from agricultural societies in Hampshire, Hampden, Franklin, and Berkshire Counties.
Nineteen oversized printed posters announcing agricultural fairs in Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, in the years immediately prior to the Civil War.
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Massachusetts Agricultural Fairs Posters Collection (MS 169). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Acquired from: Cambridge Bookbinding Co.
Processed by Linda Seidman, July 1987.
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Amherst, MA
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1852-1853, 1855-1857, 1859, 1860
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Essex, MA
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1854
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Fitchburg, MA
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1854
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Great Barrington, MA
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1854 (2), 1859
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Greenfield, MA
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1858-1859
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New Bedford, MA
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1854
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Northampton, MA
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1853, 1859
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Pittsfield, MA
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1858
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Providence, RI
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1854
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Springfield, MA
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1854, 1859
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