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| 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: | 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "North Freedom, Wis. Broken dam at Mill Pond Park. The city was raising funds to rebuild dam and the Conservation Commission assisted." |
| 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: | 08 11 1960 |
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| Description: | Angello LaBarro, a lifeguard at a Madison beach, shouts a warning to an errant swimmer. He is a graduate of Madison East high school and has attended the U... |
| Date: | 08 11 1960 |
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| Description: | Angello LaBarro, a lifeguard at a Madison beach, strikes up a conversation with a female swimmer while on duty. He is a graduate of Madison East high schoo... |
| Date: | 08 11 1960 |
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| Description: | Angello LaBarro, a lifeguard at a Madison beach, gives some advice to some junior aids while on duty. He is a graduate of Madison East high school and has ... |
| 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 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 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: | 06 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Two Vilas park beach lifeguards, one wearing earmuffs, on a chilly summer day. |
| 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: | 06 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Seated on a large lower tree limb in Vilas Park are, left to right, Danny Tortorice, John Fasel, Frank Lawrence, Raymond Falci, Tom Fields, Mike Williams a... |
| Date: | 04 16 1959 |
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| Description: | Craig Penrith studies in the front seat of his car with the top rolled down and his shoes off in Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 04 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Water flows through a diversion channel around the Tenney Park lock and dam construction site. A man is standing in the foreground and pointing towards men... |
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