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| 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: | 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: | 05 08 1933 |
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| Description: | Timber wolf cubs eating from a dish at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). |
| Date: | 07 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Radio installed at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) for the granddaughters of the zoo director, Fred Winkelmann, and Tuck, the chimpanzee. |
| 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: | 05 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Tiger cubs, Apollo and Hercules, standing in a cage at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), purchased through a fund drive by The Capital Times and... |
| Date: | 05 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Tiger cubs, Apollo and Hercules, reclining in a cage at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), purchased with a fund drive by "The Capital Times" and RKO th... |
| Date: | 03 30 1932 |
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| Description: | New Mexican bobcat kitten at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park 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: | 06 03 1931 |
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| Description: | Mexican Snookum bear (coati) on leash, in a cage in the Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A fawn suckles a meal from a bottle held by a young girl inside the cage. |
| Date: | 09 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Boy and girl at the Henry Vilas Zoo, looking at elephant cage, and donkey cage while getting a drink from the fountain. Taken for Manchesters Department St... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of spectators viewing caged bears at the zoo. |
| Date: | 12 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Duchess, the lioness at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), with two newborn cubs, born November 5th. |
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