Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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Description: | Zookeepers releasing rhesus monkeys to the island that serves as their summer home at the Washington park zoo (later replaced by the Milwaukee County Zoo). |
Date: | 11 10 1931 |
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Description: | Fred Winkleman holding a new pair of chimpanzees, Nip and Tuck, at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). |
Date: | 10 05 1931 |
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Description: | Two men are presenting a radio to a boy, Phillip Harris, as an award for naming the Vilas Zoo lion cubs. The names were "Thor" and "Yama." Left to right in... |
Date: | 07 13 1931 |
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Description: | Children with Fred Winkelmann around the John L. Bourke drinking fountain, designed by Fred Winkelmann, Director of the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). T... |
Date: | 06 03 1931 |
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Description: | Jim McWilliams, "Pianutist" vaudeville actor, and Fred Winklemann, Zoo director, with the Mexican Snookum bear (coati), at Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). |
Date: | 09 11 1930 |
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Description: | Orpheum player at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) standing in front of lion cage. |
Date: | 09 11 1930 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Orpheum players at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) standing next to buffaloes. |
Date: | 04 20 1944 |
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Description: | Marion Kinnamon with son David at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). |
Date: | 10 05 1955 |
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Description: | Children and adults gathered in front of the gorilla cages at the Washington Park Zoo to celebrate the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo. ... |
Date: | 10 15 1955 |
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Description: | Children leaning against a fence at the fifth adoptive birthday party for Samson and Sambo at the Washington Park Zoo. Several of the children are drinking... |
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: | 1918 |
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Description: | Two pelicans and other waterfowl on the lagoon in Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), opened in 1911. |
Date: | 11 18 1948 |
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Description: | New Annie the elephant having her chains removed by attendents at Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). |
Date: | 11 18 1948 |
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Description: | Crowd welcoming the new Annie the elephant at Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). |
Date: | 11 18 1948 |
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Description: | New Annie, the elephant at Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), reaching her trunk through the bars. |
Date: | 10 18 1948 |
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Description: | New Annie the elephant drinks water using her trunk in front of Fred Winklemann, left, retired zoo director, and Harold Hayes, right, present zoo director. |
Date: | 11 18 1948 |
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Description: | Standing around Annie, is, at right: Tim Harrington, city engineer and acting city manager; James Marshall, director of the city parks division, standing n... |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | A woman stands on the running board of an International D-40 truck to feed a captive giraffe in transport. The giraffe is in a large crate on the bed of th... |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Men stand around an International D-40 truck used to transport two giraffes. They are inside a large wooden crate on the back of the truck which is in a bu... |
Date: | 08 25 1950 |
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Description: | Dale Coyler shown holding "Squeaky," a ring-tailed monkey from the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). He takes the monkey home with him on his days off to a... |
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