Pioneer Fair Photos

Name/Title

Pioneer Fair Photos

Description

Several photos: A - Craft fair photo. Janie Adams on right playing autoharp. Others unidentified. B - Pioneer fair photo. Costumed people playing dulcimers and other wooden instruments. C - Broom maker Mike Warble sorting and tying broom corn, which is used to make the bristles. Taken 1999. D - Lockman “Once N Awhile” String Band. Taken at the 2000 Pioneer Fair. E - Three girls at Thomas A. Hendricks’ cabin at the Shelbyville fairgrounds. Two are shucking corn and one is carrying a bowl outside. Taken on a Kodak camera. F - 1982 Blue River Pioneer Fair. Dave White carving a mallet. 5x7. G - Black-and-white photo of three people standing behind chairs at a table. H - Black-and-white photo from the 19886 pioneer fair. Sue Hart inside the Hendricks’ cabin, where she talks to visitors about the Hendricks family and demonstrates fireplace cooking I - Black-and-white photo from the 1986 pioneer fair. Jean White making a traditional hooked rug of her own design. J - Black-an-white photo from the 1985 pioneer fair. Lynn Pitts weaving an overshot coverlet. K -Color photo of Omer Weinbraut(?) shaving a stick with a drawknife.

Photograph Details

Subject

Various

Context

J - Overshot is the type of four-shaft loom the coverlet was woven on. Coverlets are small bed coverings.

Collection

Found in collection

Create Date

September 25, 2026

Update Date

October 1, 2026