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Title: Outside Talker pitching the sideshow
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 09/1916
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: A crowd of fairgoers gathers around to hear the "bally" or "outside talker" pitch to them the sideshow, a multi-act show of human and animal oddities. The Foley and Burk Carnival Company provided the feature sideshows, concessions, and Mardi Gras Carnival on the midway at the 1916 California State Fair.
Type: image
Identifier: 1588018D-9551-4EF7-97CB-824660050682
2008/007/002
Subject: California State Agricultural Society
California State Fair
Sacramento, CA
Stockton Boulevard

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