Date: | 12 23 1958 |
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Description: | Winkie the elephant at the Henry Vilas Zoo enjoys the Christmas Tree in the lion cage next to his cage. A father and daughter watch as Winkie reaches for t... |
Date: | 02 02 1959 |
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Description: | Animals at the Henry Vilas Zoo keep active during winter weather. |
Date: | 06 06 1960 |
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Description: | Zoo keeper Almar Baker drags a baby alligator from its winter pen in the lion house basement at the Vilas Park Zoo. |
Date: | 06 06 1960 |
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Description: | Zoo keepers Jess Butler and Dale Coyler carry an alligator from the winter pen to an outside pen at the Vilas park zoo. |
Date: | 06 06 1960 |
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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. |
Date: | 08 05 1960 |
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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... |
Date: | 08 05 1960 |
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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... |
Date: | 08 06 1960 |
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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... |
Date: | 08 06 1960 |
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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... |
Date: | 08 18 1960 |
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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... |
Date: | 11 25 1960 |
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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... |
Date: | 11 25 1960 |
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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... |
Date: | 12 12 1960 |
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Description: | A man in front of a tiger in a cage at the Vilas Park Zoo. |
Date: | 1970 |
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Description: | A Polar Bear is sprawling on the rock foundation of its enclosure. |
Date: | 07 18 1938 |
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Description: | Text on front reads: "Vollrath Bowl, Sheboygan, Wis." The land was donated in 1917 by the Vollrath heirs and the construction of the Vollrath Park Zoo was ... |
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