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| Date: | 06 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Jane and Jone Johnson, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Johnson of Black River Falls, in front of the Polar Bear cage at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | View of Monkey House. On the lawn are flamingos, and in the background is a bear at Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). Photograph taken by Edwin Proctor. To... |
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| Description: | A hunter poses with a large bear hainging in a wooded area at Lone Pine Camp. His rifle leans against the bear. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Sales flyer for International Harvester's Farmall tractor line, showing a photograph of three bears and the text: "Three Bears for Work!" Also includes the... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Film still exterior of a group of people at a picnic. A man is holding a bear with a chain in the center of the image. Booths can be seen in background, on... |
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| Description: | View of an apiary that has been destroyed by a bear. Trees and stumps in background. Writing on back reads: "What a bear did to Outcelt's yard." |
| 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: | 08 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A Grizzly bear is sticking its nose out between the steel bars of a cage at Vilas Park Zoo. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | View of polar bears in their habitat at the Vilas Park (Henry Vilas) Zoo. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A photographic postcard described on the reverse: "A black bear in the Wisconsin north woods." |
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| Description: | View towards a black bear walking up a road. Text reads: "Out for a Stroll, Greetings from Mercer, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A black bear is approaching the front of the parked 1935 Oldsmobile sedan owned by the photographer. There are conifer trees in the background. The photogr... |
| Date: | 08 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption from photocopy of newspaper article reads: "What with Will Rogers suggesting that Matanuska colonists need a polo team, maybe you have been wonderi... |
| Date: | 08 02 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "Mrs. Pakonen holding the font[sic] paw of the bear, which weighed about 400 pounds. Pakonen said its hide was nice[sic]. It's again... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A Polar Bear is sprawling on the rock foundation of its enclosure. |
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