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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Jaguar Cubs at Vilas Park Zoo
September 3, 1964
Two 10-month-old jaguar cubs, a male and a female, are the latest additions to Vilas Park Zoo.
Two Orangutans
January 11, 1961
Two orangutans clinging to one another inside an enclosure at the Vilas Zoo.
New Animals are Added to the Henry Vilas Park Zoo
December 2, 1965
New animals are added to the Henry Vilas Park Zoo according to zoo director, Alvie Nelson. Two cowardly, laughing hyenas are residents in the lion house. The hyenas were purchased with funds donate...
New Animal is Added to the Henry Vilas Park Zoo
December 2, 1965
A three-month old male mountain lion is added to the Henry Vilas Park Zoo, according to zoo director, Alvie Nelson. He is the first offspring of a pair of pumas donated to the zoo in 1963 by the Ma...
Vilas Zoo Animals
August 7, 1965
A Grizzly bear is sticking its nose out between the steel bars of a cage at Vilas Park Zoo.
Tiger with Her Babies
July 23, 1964
Mother tiger sniffing her five-day old sleeping infant twins. The tigers are living at the Henry Vilas zoo.
