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Central Washington Agricultural Society Cattle Show and Fair [premium list]
Machias, ME: Furbish & Kingsley [printer], 1889. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 40p, a few line ills. in ads. Vest-pocket sized. Very good (covers browned, chipped, slightly dogeared). Item #31085
About 16 pages list the prizes for dozens of classes for horses, livestock, manufactured items, arts and crafts (including the "best knit drawers"), crops and produce, and the trotting races. Then follow many local ads for wallpaper, furniture, pianos, sewing machines, carriages, clothing, agricultural machines, paints, clothing, confectionery, crockery, one photograph studio ("wanted 1,000 persons! to sit for photographs"), etc. An unused memorandum-style calendar for July 1889-June 1890 is inserted in the middle. Machias is the county seat of Washington County, Maine, and was the site of the first naval battle in the American Revolution (1775). Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.
Price: $40.00