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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Milwaukee County Zoo grounds nearing its completion. |
| 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). |
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| Description: | Washington Park Zoo yak exhibit. The park was later replaced by the Milwaukee County Zoo. |
| Date: | 02 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo... |
| Date: | 11 28 1981 |
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| Description: | Veterinarians examining Samson, the Milwaukee Zoo's star 32-year-old gorilla, after attempting to revive him after he had collapsed while feeding in the zo... |
| Date: | 12 13 1985 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of Rhudra, an Indian rhinoceros, receiving surgery for a non-healing wound on the sole of his right, rear foot at the Milwaukee County Zoo. T... |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Bottom of the map reads: "PARKING AREA STUDY MILWAUKEE COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN SCALE 1"=200" APRIL 21, 1955 TOTAL PARKING AREA - 3736 CARS 31.1 acres". Th... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A tourist map of Milwaukee County and of downtown Milwaukee. The Map of Milwaukee County identifies the location of some of the points of interests in the ... |
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| Description: | Sid posing with a clay model of Sambo, one of the Milwaukee County Zoo's gorillas during the 1950s. Sid is wearing a suit and has a cigar in his mouth. Beh... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Children and adults are riding in the zoomobile. The driver is speaking through a microphone as they pass the bear enclosures. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Children and adults are leaning against a railing watching a group of giraffes at the zoo. |
| 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: | Children and adults are observing the various birds, including flamingos, in the aviary at the Milwaukee County Zoo. |
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| Description: | A pelican is eating a fish from a pond in the aviary at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Flamingos are standing around the pond behind the pelican. |
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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 watching the seals playing on a pile of rocks at the zoo. |
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| Description: | A group of children are leaning on a railing to look at an elephant at the Milwaukee Zoo. |
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