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Busy B's Dog and Monkey Act

Date: 1970
Description: Gloria Peebles' Busy B's animal act featuring a monkey in a rabbit costume pushing a wheelbarrow while a dog looks on through the window of the playhouse.
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Radio Installed at Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 07 01 1932
Description: Radio installed at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) for the granddaughters of the zoo director, Fred Winkelmann, and Tuck, the chimpanzee.
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Educated Monkeys Show at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: An audience gathers to watch the "Buttons Educated Monkeys" show, one of the attractions televised to the International Harvester tent at the Iowa State Fa...
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Tiny Monkey in Mother's Arms

Date: 01 17 1949
Description: A tiny four-month-old monkey, born at Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), is huddling with it's mother behind bars.
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Vilas Park Zoo Ring-Tailed Monkey

Date: 08 25 1950
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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Mrs. Vernon Castle and her Pet Monkey

Date: 1917
Description: Irene Castle in pajamas and sleeping cap enjoying a cantaloupe as part of a posed breakfast in bed with her pet monkey Rastus. This photograph was used to ...
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Open House at U.W. Madison

Date: 10 20 1962
Description: An associate of U.W.'s "World-Famous" Primate Laboratory holding out a two-month old monkey for a young smiling girl to pet as her parents are looking on.
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Keeping Animals Healthy at the Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 12 10 1958
Description: Smokey the monkey is coaxed by veterinarian Dr. A.M. McDonald and Harold Hayes, zoo director, to have an examination at the Henry Vilas Zoo.
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Zoo Keeper Dale Coyier Washes a Cage at the Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 12 10 1958
Description: Zookeeper Dale Coyier, 2239 Myrtle Street, washes down a monkey cage at the Henry Vilas Zoo. A sign on the cage states "Please help keep these animals heal...
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Chimba the Chimpanzee in Madison for the Zor Shrine Circus

Date: 02 17 1961
Description: Chimba the chimpanzee makes an appearance at the final Madison Zor Shrine planning meeting for the annual Shrine Circus held at the Dane County Fairgrounds...
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Comfort Wallace and Gerald C. Young

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man sitting in a chair and holding the handlebars of a bicycle, and a young boy standing next ...

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