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Fishing Display
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A display by the Wisconsin Conservation Department erected in a large tent extols the value of smoking fish for food. There are posters identifying different fish species and describing fish harvesting by seining. A sign overhead reads: "Smoke Your Own." Smoked fish are displayed in a case, center, with different smoking equipment set up at right. At far right, a man is writing at a desk obscured by a small pine tree.
1940
Wisconsin. Conservation Department
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W013OC5
WHi 135408
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