This blog already has a few zoo posts, but, well, old photos of animals are a weakness of mine. An assortment of zoos, their animals, their visitors, and their keepers.
From the 1850s-1960s.
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| National Media Museum |
A sea lion and keeper, 1898. Source
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| Library of Congress |
Feeding a hippo at the Central Park Zoo, ca. 1910. Source
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| Nina Leen, LIFE © Time Inc. |
An elephant stretches for a visitor's food at the Bronx Zoo, 1956. Source
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| Allan Grant, LIFE © Time Inc. |
A boy plays with a baby orangutan [the caption says "monkey"--no, it is an ape!] at the children's zoo in San Diego, 1959 (see also this post on children's zoos!). Source
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| George Skadding, LIFE © Time Inc. |
A zookeeper feeding a baby monkey at the National Zoo in Washington DC, 1945. Source
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| Library of Congress |
Children at the zoo, NYC, ca. 1910. Source
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| National Library of Ireland |
A keeper holds a lion cub at the Dublin Zoo, ca. 1936. Source
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| Field Museum Library |
A man and a zebra, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, ca. 1900. Source
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| State Library of New South Wales |
A man has his photo taken with a an orangutan, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia, about 1916. Source
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| Wallace Kirkland, LIFE © Time Inc. |
An orangutan takes a cigar from the pocket of the zoo director, St. Louis, MO, 1950. Source
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| Loomis Dean, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Writer and naturalist Gerald Durell pets a tapir in his private zoo, Jersey, Channel Islands, 1961. Source
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| Robert W. Kelley, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Orphaned baby rhino Beulah and the zoo keeper who is hand-raising her, Detroit, 1964. Source
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| Australian National Maritime Museum |
A seal in a zoo pond, England. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Feeding a bottle to a baby... antelope of some kind? Wildebeest? Amsterdam's zoo Artis, 1961. Source
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| National Library of Wales |
A boy with lion cubs, Clifton Zoological Gardens in Swansea, Wales, 1854. Source
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| personal collection |
A little boy regarding a bear at the zoo, ca. 1910. Personal collection.
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| Wallace Kirkland, LIFE © Time Inc. |
A zookeeper pours a beer for a gorilla (it was a different time!) at the St. Louis Zoo, 1954. Source
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| George Silk, LIFE © Time Inc. |
Feeding an elephant, NYC, 1951. Source
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| National Library of Ireland |
A peacock hanging out near the Herbivore House, Dublin, 1936. Source
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| State Library of New South Wales |
A baby elephant at the Taronga Zoo, ca. 1925-ca.1945, photographed by Sam Hood. Source
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4 comments:
You post and I melt c: .
It's not George Durell, but Gerald Durrell.
Thank you for the correction--the caption even has it right, I don't know what happened in my brain! Fixed.
And Ana, so glad you love the cute animal posts just as much as me! I can never resist. :)
Ahh, the good old days :)
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