
Displays
Peddling wares at the Topsfield Fair is as old a customer as is showing cows. Various companies and vendors set-up displays over the years to showcase their items. A few of them are displayed here:
Dickerman Fuel Corporation, Salem, MA – set up the booth in 1930. Here, the company displayed state-of-the-art electric furnaces and took orders for delivery of three different types of coal. Of note is the mere four digit number needed to telephone the electric furnace man.
Silent Glow and Sunflower Heater circa 1929 – another heater company set up to attract homeowners