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| Date: | 06 28 1953 |
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| Description: | Winkie, the Vilas Park elephant, attending a celebration of her third birthday. Attendants accompanying Winkie are Tom Frisch, extreme left; Zoo director H... |
| Date: | 08 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Kurt Gerhart offering some grass to a rabbit at the Vilas Park Zoo. |
| Date: | 08 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Katherine Bird of Winnetka, Illinois, offering some grass to two deer at the Vilas Park Zoo. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | This pictorial map focuses on the Madison Isthmus, Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Wingra, and shows points of historical interest, buildings, parks, and I... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | This map has labeled streets and points of interest. Lake Mendota and Lake Monona are labeled. The back of the map includes index of University of Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 01 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Two orangutans clinging to one another inside an enclosure at the Vilas Zoo. |
| Date: | 08 12 1961 |
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| Description: | Two young boys watching the lions at Vilas Park Zoo, a popular summer pastime in Madison. |
| Date: | 08 12 1961 |
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| Description: | A group of people watching the animals at the Vilas Park Zoo, a popular summer pastime in Madison. |
| Date: | 08 12 1961 |
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| Description: | A family watching the prairie dogs at the Vilas Park Zoo, a popular summer pastime in Madison. |
| Date: | 08 12 1961 |
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| Description: | A young boy sticking his head through the fence while watching the animals at the Vilas Park Zoo, a popular summer visiting spot in Madison. |
| Date: | 10 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person... |
| Date: | 04 24 1963 |
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| Description: | A baby llama born on April 18th standing with her mother, Eloise, while entertaining visitors at the Henry Vilas Park Zoo. |
| Date: | 02 04 1964 |
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| Description: | The Vilas Park Zoo is reopened after being closed for six months for redecorating the lion house. |
| Date: | 02 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Sicilian donkey at the Vilas Park Zoo. |
| Date: | 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of clowns standing beside and on a car decorated with the Zor Shriners logo. On the front of the car a large horn labeled "Zor Shrine" is mo... |
| Date: | 07 23 1964 |
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| Description: | Mother tiger sniffing her five-day old sleeping infant twins. The tigers are living at the Henry Vilas zoo. |
| Date: | 09 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Two 10-month-old jaguar cubs, a male and a female, are the latest additions to Vilas Park Zoo. |
| Date: | 01 08 1965 |
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| Description: | The new master plan for the Henry Vilas park and zoo is reviewed by Atty. George F. Lange, president of the Henry Vilas Zoological Society, Inc. and Mrs. G... |
| Date: | 03 11 1965 |
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| Description: | The Henry Vilas Zoo now has three yaks and two hornbills for the first time thanks to a gift from the Monona Grove Civics Club. The Tibetan yaks are about ... |
| Date: | 03 11 1965 |
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| Description: | The Henry Vilas Park Zoo adds hornbills, thanks to a gift from the Monona Grove Civic Club. New zoo residents include a pair of Indian hornbills. |
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