This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1MB.2ACI/2908.1.1 Message Board Post: Kathy, Would you please attach the earlier postcard of the fairgrounds that shows the grandstands without the dormers? I'm thinking it would have been unusual for them to have added the dormers after the roof was finished at a later date. Is it possible the earlier card is showing the unadorned possibly earlier built stand? Hopefully, this works. It's a link to the largest size photo of the postcard on the Joplin Public Library site. Note the stockade fencing and use of trees instead of milled lumber. I used TinyURL!™ to make the really long URL tiny to fit on this site. Just in case it didn't work, I also attached it. http://tinyurl.com/ Thank you, By the way, mailing list members, the people posting here do NOT get your questions and answers placed on the mailing list. There should be a link with this that you click on, and it will bring you here, so that you can see the query, attachments and answer from here. Orlena ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the description that goes with the postcard. Home: Carthage Picture Booklet http://tinyurl.com/ahx44 Title: Jasper County Fair Grounds at Carthage Creator: A. G. Newell and Son, Carthage, Missouri Creation Date: 1906 Access File Type: JPEG Master File Type: TIFF (image/tiff) Subject: Jasper County Fair Grounds (Mo.);Carthage (Mo.)' Description: The county fairgrounds were established in 1902 on land owned by Edward Knell west of the city. In addition to providing agricultural, livestock, and homemaking exhibits and competitions, the fair also held horse races on this track. The grandstand shown in this photo was located north of where the Econo Lodge Motel currently stands at the highway interchange on the west side of Carthage. MDI Identifier: jplcar15 Access URL: car15 Source: From the collection of the Joplin Public Library Relation: Carthage, Missouri: The Most Beautiful City in the West Current Date: 2005-04-26 Contributor: Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.; Carolyn Trout, Joplin Public Library. Publisher: Joplin Public Library Hosted By the University of Missouri Digital Library # http://www.joplinpubliclibrary.org/ http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/ #