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Putting the muskrat pelts through a wringer after they have been skinned. Then they are hung up to dry, turned inside out, put on a stretcher and further dried. By a Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes near Delacroix Island, Louisiana. See general caption number one

Putting the muskrat pelts through a wringer after they have been skinn...

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More furs for the modern woman. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Dr. Thora M. Plitt, formerly with the Bureau of Standards and now with the Dept. of Agriculture starts research work at the Agriculture Dept. today, because current fashions are demanding more and more furs, despite a diminishing supply of wild life pelts. The fur industry is turning to fur bearing animals raised in captivity. Dr. Plitt, will investigate fur fiber structure and shape, pigment distribution, density, and relative distribution of underfur and guard hairs of such fur animals as silver foxes, minks, martens, and muskrats. She is shown with a sample giving it the once over, 11/2/38

More furs for the modern woman. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Dr. Thora M....

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Tables of Pelts at Nevada Trappers' Association Fur Sale

Tables of Pelts at Nevada Trappers' Association Fur Sale

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Nevada Trappers' Association Fur Sale. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Nevada Trappers' Association Fur Sale. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklif...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project... More

Chicago - Meat Packing Industry - Swift & Co.'s Packing House: dressing lamb for the market, removing the pelts

Chicago - Meat Packing Industry - Swift & Co.'s Packing House: dressin...

H73965 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Meat processing; Shelf.

Spanish trappers' camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or canoe) he can go up the very narrow and shallow bayous; the large boat he uses for fishing, going to the island to sell his muskrat pelts, and bringing back supplies. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana.

Spanish trappers' camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or cano...

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Coyote Pelts. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Coyote Pelts. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project... More

Beaver Pelts at Nevada Trappers' Association Fur Sale

Beaver Pelts at Nevada Trappers' Association Fur Sale

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Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or canoe) he can go up the very narrow and shallow bayous; the large boat he uses for fishing, going to the island to sell his muskrat pelts, and bringing back supplies. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or cano...

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Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or canoe) he can go up the very narrow and shallow bayous; the large boat he uses for fishing, going to the island to sell his muskrat pelts, and bringing back supplies. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or cano...

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Nevada Trappers' Association Officials at Fur Sale

Nevada Trappers' Association Officials at Fur Sale

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Spanish trapper and his family returning home from the island with groceries and supplies for their marsh camp. On the bow of the boat they still have their sacks of muskrat pelts which they refused to sell at the auction because the fur buyers' prices were too low. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish trapper and his family returning home from the island with gro...

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Louis Levy with white fox pelts - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Louis Levy with white fox pelts - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Red Fox Pelts at Nevada Trappers' Association Fur Sale

Red Fox Pelts at Nevada Trappers' Association Fur Sale

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Perley Mosley with three pelts from foxes he trapped. Eden Mills, Vermont

Perley Mosley with three pelts from foxes he trapped. Eden Mills, Verm...

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Putting the muskrat pelts through a wringer after they have been skinned. Then they are hung up to dry, turned inside out, put on a stretcher and further dried. By a Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes near Delacroix Island, Louisiana. See general caption number one

Putting the muskrat pelts through a wringer after they have been skinn...

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Spanish muskrat trappers drinking wine after dinner. On the walls of their marsh camp are hung the dried pelts. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish muskrat trappers drinking wine after dinner. On the walls of t...

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Spanish trapper and his children taking muskrat pelts into the FSA (Farm Security Administration) auction sale which is held in a dancehall on Delacroix Island, Louisiana. The fur buyers come from New Orleans. See general caption no. 1

Spanish trapper and his children taking muskrat pelts into the FSA (Fa...

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A black and white photo of people on a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of people on a boat. Office of War Information...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A black and white photo of a boat docked at a dock. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a boat docked at a dock. Office of War Info...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Fur buyer figuring out his bid on the next lot of muskrat pelts. The auction sale is held in a dance hall on Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Fur buyer figuring out his bid on the next lot of muskrat pelts. The a...

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Fur buyer from New Orleans examining one of the muskrat pelts before they have finished grading them. At an auction sale held in a dance hall on Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Fur buyer from New Orleans examining one of the muskrat pelts before t...

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Spanish muskrat trapper and his grandson sitting on sacks of dried muskrat pelts, in front of their camp in the marshes. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish muskrat trapper and his grandson sitting on sacks of dried mus...

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Perley Mosley with three pelts from foxes he trapped at Eden Mills, Vermont

Perley Mosley with three pelts from foxes he trapped at Eden Mills, Ve...

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Spanish trapper's boats in the marshes. The small "piroque" (or canoe) can go up the very narrow and shallow bayous. The larger boats are used for fishing, going to the island to sell his muskrat pelts and bringing back supplies. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish trapper's boats in the marshes. The small "piroque" (or canoe)...

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Spanish muskrat trapper and his grandson sitting on sacks of dried muskrat pelts, in front of their camp in the marshes. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish muskrat trapper and his grandson sitting on sacks of dried mus...

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A black and white photo of a man on a boat. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man on a boat. Office of War Information ...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A black and white photo of a man and two children. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man and two children. Office of War Infor...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or canoe) he can go up the very narrow and shallow bayous; the large boat he uses for fishing, going to the island to sell his muskrat pelts, and bring back supplies. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or cano...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or canoe) he can go up the very narrow and shallow bayous; the large boat he uses for fishing, going to the island to sell his muskrat pelts, and bringing back supplies. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish trapper's camp in the marshes. In the small "piroque" (or cano...

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Spanish trappers' camp in the marshes. In the small "peroque" [i.e. pirogue] (or canoe) he can go up the very narrow and shallow bayous; the large boat he uses for fishing, going to the island to sell his muskrat pelts, and bringing back supplies. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Spanish trappers' camp in the marshes. In the small "peroque" [i.e. pi...

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Spanish trapper and his childen taking muskrat pelts into the FSA (Farm Security Administration) auction sale which is held in a dancehall on Delacroix Island, Louisiana. The fur buyers come from New Orleans

Spanish trapper and his childen taking muskrat pelts into the FSA (Far...

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