We've been entreated to visit the zoo by posters from the WPA and London Transport; so, let's! The Dutch National Archives (Nationaal Archief) has a wonderful collection of photographs from Artis, a zoo in Amsterdam, from the 50s-70s. Both the photographers of these images and the people who selected them for sharing certainly had remarkable eyes for the adorable and quirky!
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| Nationaal Archief |
Mother and baby jaguar, 1972. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Zookeeper cleaning a hippo's mouth, 1961. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Handful of baby leopards, 1968. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Mother and baby hippo, 1968. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Elephant shrew, 1961. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Feeding a 20kg python, 1964. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Polar bear (ijsberrtje) and baby, 1965. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Baby seal (zeehondje) being weighed, 1962. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Ostrich reading the newspaper of a zookeeper, 1951. Source
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