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Article: FEDERAL DUCK STAMP CELEBRATES 75TH ANNIVERSARY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 27, 2008
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The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issued the following press release:
The first 75th Anniversary Federal Duck Stamp was sold to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall during a special ceremony hosted today by Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World, near Baltimore, Maryland. Minnesota artist Joseph Hautman's depiction of a pair of Northern pintails was selected to grace the stamp.
In 1934, Postmaster William Mooney sold the very first Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, popularly known as the Federal Duck Stamp, to J. N. "Ding" Darling. Darling was the first Federal Duck Stamp artist and also served as Director of the U.S. Biological ...