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PHOTO OF THE DAY April 16, 2003  

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Where Spencer, Iowa
When 1996
Photographer Randy Olson

A man rolls up U.S. flags at the end of the Clay County Fair in Spencer, Iowa. "Although the population of Spencer is only about 12,000, the fair draws some 300,000 visitors. Once a year, rising from the endless flatness of the Iowa countryside, a crowd forms—to stroll, to hear big country music acts like the Statler Brothers, to sell a grand champion boar, to buy a new silo."

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "County Fairs," October 1997, National Geographic magazine)

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