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Carver County Fair Entrance

Fair visitors entering the second annual fair held on the Waconia fairgrounds, 1913. This is the original entrance to the fair, changed in the 1930s through Works Progress Administration work..

Carver County Fairgrounds

An aerial photo of the Carver County Fairgrounds in Waconia, c.1941. The image shows the roadways and buildings on the grounds.

Carver County Fairgrounds

Fairgrounds in Waconia, c.1950. Shows the back of the grandstand in the bottom left of the image. Cars and buses are seen in the middle of the photo.

a map graphic indicating the locations of ghost towns, as well as existing towns, within the boundaries of Carver County

Cascade Steam Laundry postcard

Postcard advertising the Cascade Steam Laundry in Minneapolis, ca. 1885-1890. The undercover reporting of Eva McDonald (pseudonym Eva Gay) in 1886 revealed that working conditions at the Cascade Laundry did not match this public image. “It looked more like a rat hole than a place where women were forced to work,” she wrote in the St. Paul Globe in that year. “The steam, darkness, heat and smell from dirty clothing made a disgusting combination…Such a work room is a disgrace to humanity.”