Days Gone By

Jack Delano, A freak show at the Rutland Fair in Rutland, Vermont, September 1941.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection

Works Progress Administration, New Orleans Carnival royalty, February 1939.

John Dominis, Ferris wheels at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, September 1955.

Margaret Bourke-White, Aerial view of a fair and carnival in progress, Pasadena, Texas, USA, 1951.

Acrobats at a carnival. Photograph by William Vandivert, June 1938.

Crowds at a carnival. Photograph by William Vandivert, June 1938.

People standing in front of banners for a magic show being performed by radio personality Orson Welles. Photograph by Peter Stackpole. USA, August 1943.

People strolling by two large Ferris wheels at the Greenbrier Valley Fair. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Lewisburg, West Virginia, USA, August 1938.

People walking under a sign for a “2 Headed Cow” exhibit at the Iowa State Fair. Photograph by John Dominis. Des Moines, Iowa, USA, 1955.

Nighttime aerial view of the Iowa State Fair. Photograph by John Dominis. Des Moines, Iowa, USA, 1955.