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Spanish trappers putting the muskrat skins on wire stretchers before hanging them up to dry. By their camp in the marshes near Delacroix Island, Louisiana. See general caption no. 1

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Spanish trappers putting the muskrat skins on wire stretchers before hanging them up to dry. By their camp in the marshes near Delacroix Island, Louisiana. See general caption no. 1

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01/01/1941
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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
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