One of the many displays in the Renwick Gallery’s new exhibition, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” dedicated to artists’ contributions to the great U.S. tradition of state fairs with more than 240 artworks on view, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

“Butter Carton Dress Worn by Princess Kay of the Milky Way” was created by Wilma Ryan and Mary Ann Titrud for the crowning of the dairy princess of the Minnesota State Fair in 1965. It was constructed with some 475 cardboard squares cut from butter cartons of the day to promote the state’s creameries.

‘Century of Progress’ (1925-33), posted earlier: