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| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo... |
| Date: | 05 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Children watching Miss Annie, an Indian elephant at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). Annie died Feb. 24, 1948 and was replaced by a "new Annie." |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of over twenty-six Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants, standing on their rear legs with front legs resting on the elephant ahead. ... |
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| Description: | Three young boys, kneeling in the grass, peer into a circus tent at the elephants. |
| Date: | 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Six children ride an elephant in front of boat-shaped entrance to Story Book Land. |
| Date: | 02 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Neighborhood children from the 2700 blocks of Van Hise Avenue and Mason Street held a bake sale to raise funds toward the purchase of a replacement for Ann... |
| Date: | 06 30 1951 |
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| Description: | A crowd of children surround a man with a birthday cake while celebrating the first anniversary of Winkie the elephant's arrival at Vilas Zoo. |
| Date: | 06 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Two men and Vilas Zoo Director Harold Hayes standing with group of children during the celebration of the first anniversary of Winkie the elephant's arriva... |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | Winkie, the Vilas Zoo elephant, is led by zoo keepers to summer quarters with many children looking on during a party to celebrate Winkie's birthday and 2n... |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | An elephant appears to be in a tug of war contest with a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor. In the background is a large tent and a group of children wa... |
| Date: | 06 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Winkie, the elephant from Vilas Park Zoo, is led by her keepers from indoor winter quarters to her large outdoor elephant yard. This is the 4th annual "com... |
| Date: | 1696 |
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| Description: | Engraved and hand-colored map of Ethiopia, from Blaeu's General Atlas. Map title is framed by a man and a woman, both wearing head turbans, who are standin... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Governor Vernon Thompson (left) has his hand on the trunk of an elephant, the symbol of the Republican Party. The elephant is draped with a banner that rea... |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | View across grounds towards a man on a tractor on the right, and a man with an elephant on the left. The elephant is hitched to the back of the tractor wit... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Two women and five children are leaning on or sitting on a railing watching the elephants at the zoo. |
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| Description: | A line of children and one woman are leaning against a fence to look at an elephant at the Milwaukee Zoo. |
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| Description: | A group of children are leaning on a railing to look at an elephant at the Milwaukee Zoo. |
| Date: | 12 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Winkie the elephant at the Henry Vilas Zoo enjoys the Christmas Tree in the lion cage next to his cage. A father and daughter watch as Winkie reaches for t... |
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