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Mexican Snookum Bear (Coati)

Date: 06 03 1931
Description: Mexican Snookum bear (coati) on leash, in a cage in the Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo).
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Mexican Snookum Bear (Coati)

Date: 06 03 1931
Description: Jim McWilliams, "Pianutist" vaudeville actor, and Fred Winklemann, Zoo director, with the Mexican Snookum bear (coati), at Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo).
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La Follette Kills a Bear

Date: 1907
Description: Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr., (with rifle), Robert M. La Follette Jr., and guide Jake Borah with the bear shot by the senator.
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Polar Bear Cage at Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 06 05 1947
Description: Jane and Jone Johnson, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Johnson of Black River Falls, in front of the Polar Bear cage at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo).
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Henry Vilas Zoo Bear Pit

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Description: Three large black bears are visible in their environment at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo).
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Man Feeding a Bear

Date: 1948
Description: A man feeds a bear in a large cage at the Gateway Inn. A group of people are gathered at the right side of the cage.
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Bear Chasing Boy up Tree

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Description: View of a boy perched in a tree with a bear standing at the base while a dog looks on. In the background are stone walls and a house.
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Bear Cub Drinking

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Description: Photograph of an illustration of a bear cub in Bear Mountain Park drinking from a baby bottle that is propped on a stump.
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Men with Two Bears on Leash

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Description: View of two men with two bears on leashes standing on a lawn. The bears are wearing muzzles and the men have staves. A large house is in the background.
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Caged Polar Bear

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Description: A polar bear in its cage at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). This is one of many photographs made by Harold Hone to illustrate "Wisconsin: A Guide to...
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Lone Pine Camp

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Description: A hunter poses with a large bear hainging in a wooded area at Lone Pine Camp. His rifle leans against the bear.
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Title I PreSchoolers

Date: 1978
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughou...
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Mental Patients Visit the Zoo

Date: 10 20 1961
Description: Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person...
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Chippewa Woman Cooking Bear Meat

Date: 1907
Description: Chippewa woman standing outdoors stirring one of three pots suspended over an open fire.
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Vilas Zoo Animals

Date: 08 07 1965
Description: A Grizzly bear is sticking its nose out between the steel bars of a cage at Vilas Park Zoo.
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Caveman Sid

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Description: View of Sid, with a cigar in his mouth and holding a club, sitting on an animal-skin rug outdoors in what may be a quarry. He is wearing a rag mop on his h...
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Bear Cubs

Date: 05 1942
Description: An unidentified woman and a man are tending to two small bear cubs that are wearing harnesses, at the counter of a display in the All-Wisconsin Outdoor Sho...
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Black Bear

Date: 1935
Description: A black bear is approaching the front of the parked 1935 Oldsmobile sedan owned by the photographer. There are conifer trees in the background. The photogr...
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Mrs. Pakonen with Bear Paws

Date: 08 02 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Mrs. Pakonen holding the font[sic] paw of the bear, which weighed about 400 pounds. Pakonen said its hide was nice[sic]. It's again...

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