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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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Smokey Bear and Homer C. Pickens with Airplane

Date: 1950
Description: Smokey Bear cub and his handler, Homer C. Pickens, pose by a Piper Aircraft Corporation airplane named in Smokey's honor prior to flying to Washington, D.C...
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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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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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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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Dairy Days Parade

Date: 1950
Description: Bernard Arms holding a firearm poses on a parade float decorated in an autumn theme, including a stuffed bear, fox, and squirrel. The parade was a part of ...
Postcard

A Complete Deer Season, Cornucopia, Wis.

Date: 1950
Description: Photographic postcard of a man holding a rifle, squatting on ground on the right, with his trophies: Carcasses of a deer, a bear and a wolf hanging from pi...
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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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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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Hunter's Camp

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Description: Two men are sitting outside of a cabin at a hunter's camp. A dog is curled up at their feet. A dead bear and several dead deer are hung up behind them on p...
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Skin of Black Bear

Date: 08 11 1935
Description: Caption from photocopy of newspaper article reads: "What with Will Rogers suggesting that Matanuska colonists need a polo team, maybe you have been wonderi...
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Bearskin

Date: 08 02 1935
Description: Caption with negative: "Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pakonen, Iron Mountain, Mich., shown with [sic] in their cottage yard with the skin of a bear Pakonen and anot...

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