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Learning about Wild Game

Location : MI
Date : Jun, 1940
Agency : WPA
Owner : NARA (SPB)
Medium : B&W Photo
Control Number : RG 69-14

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Description : Michigan WPA Tourists' Guide Training Project fills need for more trained hunting, fishing guides. Increase in sportsmen visiting Michigan developed the shortage. WPA Instructors teach prospective guides fly tying, equipment selection and repairing and otherwise qualify them as expert guides. Photo shows prospective guides being instructed in the habits of wild game. They are gathered around a nest of wild Widgeon Duck.

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[Education][Vocational Education][Tourist Guides]