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Tiger Cubs at Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 05 25 1932
Description: Tiger cubs, Apollo and Hercules, standing in a cage at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), purchased through a fund drive by The Capital Times and...
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Tiger Cubs at Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 05 25 1932
Description: Tiger cubs, Apollo and Hercules, reclining in a cage at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), purchased with a fund drive by "The Capital Times" and RKO th...
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Studio Portrait of William Massey, Grace Decorra Twocrow

Date: 1890
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk group in front of a painted backdrop. On the left is William Massey (ChawRoChooChayKah), sitting with his arm aro...
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Shorewood Hills Community League "Shindig" Event

Date: 10 20 1950
Description: Magician Jack Hurlbut, right, pulls a skunk out of a hat in front of Charles Copp, master of ceremonies at the Shorewood Community League's "Shindig" party...
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Mastadon Skull

Date: 1904
Description: A mastodon skull unearthed at Quartz Creek at a depth of 42 feet. Photograph taken at Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. Text on photograph reads: "Copyrigh...
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Night Hunters

Date: 1890
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two hunters, Jacob Gross, sitting and holding a lantern, and Henry Herold, standing and holding a rifle a...
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Junior Division of the University League

Date: 09 27 1953
Description: Richard and Ruth Shackleford posing with a prize white mink outside of the small animal house at 2105 Herrick Drive. Richard, a member of the U.W. genetics...
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Richardson Farm

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Description: The Richardson Farm stands at the far edge of a farm field with a creek running through it and animals grazing. The farmhouse is white and surrounded by tr...
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Berlin Zebra

Date: 1940
Description: Zebras in the Berlin zoo stretching their necks for what they think may be a treat. It appears that the man is holding a camera. The photograph was taken b...
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Van Gorden House

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Description: Two men, two women, two girls, and a boy are posing standing in the snow in front of a two-story frame house. The boy is displaying a horse. Possibly the S...
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Soldier with His Pet Coati

Date: 08 18 1943
Description: Corporal Marcell Vanden Heuval, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, poses with his coati named "Speedy" perched on his shoulder. He was a cook at the military cam...
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Cuscus at Nadzab Airport

Date: 01 13 1944
Description: An animal caught at the Nadzab Airport. Robert Doyle described it as a "Possum-like animal, White thick fur with brown splotches - Pink face, feet. Big eye...
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The Maunesha — Scene on Crawfish River

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of the river with trees on the left. On the right, two young boys are fishing from a rowboat in the river near a landing at the back of a thr...
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Edgar Krueger with a Skunk

Date: 12 1905
Description: Edgar Krueger holding onto an animal trap, hanging from a tree branch, with a dead skunk trapped by a front paw. Farm buildings are in the background.
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Examining Trapped Mink

Date: 1913
Description: Alexander Krueger holding up a mink that Edgar Krueger trapped. Edgar is standing next to him looking at the mink while holding his rifle.
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Edgar Krueger Posing with his Catch

Date: 1913
Description: Edgar Krueger posing with a skunk he caught. The skunk is hanging from the rifle he has resting on his shoulder.
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Displaying his Catch

Date: 1913
Description: Edgar Krueger posing with a mink he trapped. He is looking down at the mink, which he is holding up against the house, while holding his rifle in the other...
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Two Orangutans

Date: 01 11 1961
Description: Two orangutans clinging to one another inside an enclosure at the Vilas Zoo.
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Don Haack with Ocelot

Date: 04 18 1961
Description: Don Haack, co-manager of Robert Haack Diamond Importers, holds a four-month old male ocelot found in a South American jungle after its mother was shot by n...
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Badger and Raptors

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Description: Stereograph, of what is possibly a diorama, that contains a badger, two owls, a chipmunk, plants, cattails, dried grass, logs, simulated rocks and two shel...

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