Delafield Fish Hatchery daybooks, 1907-1923.

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Delafield Fish Hatchery daybooks, 1907-1923.

Daybooks of several managers of the Delafield Fish Hatchery providing brief accounts of daily activities of fish hatchery workers and the number of fish stocked in area lakes, together with an undated survey and photographs of the hatchery grounds.

0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and7 photographs.

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