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Vilas Zoo Monkeys

Date: 07 06 1955
Description: Monkeys on monkey island at the Vilas Park Zoo. The monkeys are on loan from the University of Wisconsin during the summer and returned in the winter to be...
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Grandfathers Spend Time with Grandchildren

Date: 06 10 1958
Description: Grandfather L. J. Padgham, Schroeder Road, spends time at Vilas Park with his grandchildren (L-R) Jody (2) and Patti (4 1/2), daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jac...
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Baby Bison and Mother at the Vilas Park Zoo

Date: 11 20 1958
Description: Two new baby bison pose with their mother at the Henry Vilas Park zoo. One baby was born on October 12th and the other on November 12th.
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Henry Vilas Zoo Animals Keep Active in the Winter

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Animals at the Henry Vilas Zoo keep active during winter weather.
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Moving Vilas Park Zoo Alligators to Outside Pen

Date: 06 06 1960
Description: Zoo keeper Almar Baker drags a baby alligator from its winter pen in the lion house basement at the Vilas Park Zoo.
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Moving Vilas Park Zoo Alligators to Outside Pen

Date: 06 06 1960
Description: Zoo keepers Jess Butler and Dale Coyler carry an alligator from the winter pen to an outside pen at the Vilas park zoo.
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Moving Vilas Park Zoo Alligators to Outside Pen

Date: 06 06 1960
Description: Three zoo keepers move a 45-year-old, one-hundred-fifty pound alligator from its winter pen to an outside pen at the Vilas Park Zoo.
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Monkeys Escape Vilas Zoo

Date: 08 05 1960
Description: Thirty-eight Rhesus monkeys escaped from the basement of the Vilas zoo monkey house on August 4, 1960. Sixteen were captured right away but it took until D...
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Monkeys Escape Vilas Zoo

Date: 08 05 1960
Description: Thirty-eight Rhesus monkeys escaped from the basement of the Vilas zoo monkey house on August 4, 1960. Sixteen were captured right away but it took until D...
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Monkeys Escape Vilas Zoo

Date: 08 06 1960
Description: Thirty-eight Rhesus monkeys escaped from the basement of the Vilas zoo monkey house on August 4, 1960. Sixteen were captured right away but it took until D...
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Monkeys Escape Vilas Zoo

Date: 08 06 1960
Description: A zookeeper poses with a net and three large box traps. Thirty-eight Rhesus monkeys escaped from the basement of the Vilas zoo monkey house on August 4, 19...
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New Vilas Park Zoo Llama-Guamaco

Date: 08 18 1960
Description: Eloise, a part llama and part guamaco breed and a new resident at the Vilas Park Zoo. She had been a pet of the Katz family of Racine. A man is standing ne...
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Watching Escaped Monkeys

Date: 11 25 1960
Description: Children watching firemen and the zoo director attempting to capture two rhesus monkeys in the tree tops. The monkeys escaped from the zoo on August 4th, 1...
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Watching Escaped Monkeys

Date: 11 25 1960
Description: Dan Watson, left, director of the Vilas Park Zoo, and fireman Don Annen attempting to capture two rhesus monkeys in the tree tops. Annen is holding a tran...
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Vilas Zoo Tiger

Date: 12 12 1960
Description: A man in front of a tiger in a cage at the Vilas Park Zoo.

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