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| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Camel rides at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo) for children, given free by Zor Temple Camel Patrol on Sunday afternoons during the summer. A number of... |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting by Jens von Sivers presented to the zoo by the Provident Savings and Loan Association. The painting shows children riding camels led by... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting by Jens von Sivers presented to the zoo by the Cuba Club, showing several camels in the yard in front of the camel barn at the Henry Vi... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A young girl and another child riding a camel led by a Zor Shriner at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). In the background the Zor Booster Band is in a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Early souvenir postcard of the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo), with a camel in the foreground. Caption reads: "Scene at Vilas Park Zoo, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 12 30 1937 |
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| Description: | An Arab man plowing sand with a plow harnessed to a camel. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. This may be the Eastern end of Mount Zion or the City of David. Text at right: "Wanderings Among... |
| Date: | 07 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Frank Wheeler of Muscoda, a 103-year-old member of the Zor Shrine Temple, takes a camel ride during the annual Camels' Day at Vilas Zoo. The event was spon... |
| Date: | 07 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine Potentate Laurien J. Caldwell of Janesville christens a new camel named Najme during the annual Camels' Day at Henry Vilas Zoo. A four-foot tall... |
| Date: | 07 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine member Henry R. Schroeder giving a boy a camel ride at Madison's Vilas Park Zoo. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View down road lined with trees in Egypt. A group of Egyptians are standing and sitting between the trees and the river, and travelers on the road are walk... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across road of six camels walking and grazing along the side of a country road near Holloway Farm. They may have been circus animals going from one to... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Souvenir playing card out of a full deck from the Pan-American Exposition. The Three of Hearts displays a drawing of the "Beautiful Orient." Two obelisks f... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Children are waiting in a line behind a fence for their turn to ride a camel. Two children are sitting on a camel as men of the Zor Camel Patrol are leadin... |
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| Description: | Soldiers with a camel caravan moving through the Taurus. |
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| Description: | Soldiers caravan through the Taurus Mountains. |
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| Description: | Caravan through the Taurus Mountains. |
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| Description: | Military transport through the Wild Taurus Mountains. There is an inn on the far right. |
| Date: | 07 12 1957 |
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| Description: | Bellamy Seals with Zor Shrine camel, Saleem. They will be in two parades at the upcoming Shrine Convention in Minneapolis. In 1953 Saleem broke loose durin... |
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| Description: | View of people riding the Kiddie Train at the Vilas Park Zoo. People behind the train are standing and watching the train near a fence, and there is a came... |
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