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Photograph

Children and Their Pets

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Brothers Jim, age 13, and John Gannon, age 10, gazing upon their small pet alligator named "Friday" that they received a year and a half previous from New ...
Photograph

Children and Their Pets

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Arthur Wegner Jr., age 13, and siblings Anne, 6, and Dick, 10, looking down into an aquarium containing their 200 pet guppies as Dick is hugging the boys d...
Postcard

Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 1940
Description: A postcard of the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) depicting aquatic fowl, with an inset of a sea lion on a rock. Caption reads: "At the Zoo, Madison, Wis....
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - The Reverse

Date: 1979
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man dressed in fishing gear suspended above the fireplace in a living room from a nail in the wall. Below the man is a...

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