Summary Information
Alliant Energy Center Records
1933-2000 (bulk 1950-1997)
C2008/058
18.4 cubic feet (15 records center cartons, 3 archives boxes, 1 flat box, 2 volumes, 1 photo album, and 2 oversize folders), plus 3 audio recordings
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records for the Dane County Fair, Dane County Junior Fair, Dane County Expo Center, and Veterans Memorial Coliseum, consisting of administrative and financial records, video, photo albums, slides and loose photographs, blueprints and plans, and scrapbooks primarily of news clippings.
The Dane County Fair has taken place at the location of the Alliant Energy Center (before 2000 known as the Dane County Expo Center) since 1951. On the grounds is the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, built in 1967. Records assigned Dane Series 331.
English
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Scope and Content Note
Administrative and financial records of the Dane County Fair, Dane County Junior Fair, Dane County Expo Center, and Veterans Memorial Coliseum, at the formerly named Dane County Coliseum complex, mostly from 1950 to 1997. Includes correspondence; original contracts with performers; newsletters; press releases; budget papers; audits; advertising and publicity; vendor's proposals; environmental and economic impact studies in preparation of building Veterans Memorial Coliseum; information on entertainment, exhibits, judging, and fairground improvements; and reports listing each event at the Coliseum and the Exhibit Hall, and the attendance number for each event. Slides and photos document all aspects of the county fair and junior county fair, including entertainment, livestock presenting and judging, midway scenes, and award ceremonies. Also includes sound recordings (1973, 1994) and newspaper clippings in scrapbooks (1953-2000).
Arrangement of the Materials
Roughly organized by year.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Accession Number: C2008/058
Contents List
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C2008/058
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Dane County Fair
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Box
12
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Records, 1950-1997 (bulk 1982-1997)
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Box
15
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Videos, 1986-1993
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Box
20
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Slides, 1986
: Also negatives, 1994.
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Dane County Junior Fair
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Administrative records
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Box
9
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1950-1973
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Box
10
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1973-1994
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Financial records
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Box
11
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1951-1989
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Box
19
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1974-1980
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Volume
1
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1981-1983
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Volume
2
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1981-1983
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Photo albums
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Box
1
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1972-1989
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Box
2
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1990-1991
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Box
3
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1992-1993
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Box
4
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1993-1994
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Volume
3
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1994
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Box
5
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1994-1997
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Box
17, 18
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Photographs, loose, 1967-1994 (bulk 1970s)
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Box
6
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Scrapbooks, 1956, 1967-1972
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Box
7
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Slides, 1951-1994 (bulk 1969-1994)
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Box
8
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Negatives, 1960-1997
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Dane County Expo Center
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Box
13
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1967-1970
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Box
14
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1970-1980
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Box
16
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1980-1986
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Oversize Folder
1
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Posters, undated
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Audio recordings
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Audio
2027A/1
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"A New day - A New Way" / 4H, 1973
1 cassette
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Audio
2027A/2
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"A New day - A New Way" / 4H, 1973
1 audio record
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Audio
2027A/3
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Earl Pottinger, former landowner of site of Dane County Coliseum, reminiscences, 1994 April
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