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[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0839]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dave Garroway and the NBC-TV 'Today' program's latest attraction, a seven and one half month old female chimp get acquainted as she makes her debut on the show. Groomed for three months by the program's animal editor, J. Fred Muggs, the newcomer will bear the title of 'society editor'."
Date: December 10, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0838]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Introducing J. Fred Muggs' protégé, a dainty young miss from the Cameroons of Africa. Under Muggs' tutelage for three months, the seven and one half month old chimp has been judged ready for her debut on NBC-TV's TODAY."
Date: December 10, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0849]

Description: Caption: "Musical monkeyshines of this sort go to prove that this chimp is no chump when it comes to aping people. The warbler is none other than Cheta the educated chimpanzee who appears with the Shrine Polack Bros. circus which moves into town Tuesday for a four day stand at the Municipal Auditorium. Cheta, who has been in a number of Tarzan Movies, is the star in a trio of performing chimps."
Date: November 7, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0828]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "J. Fred Muggs wraps a protective arm around his demure seven and one half month old protégé. The as yet unnamed baby chimp made her show business debut Dec. 2 on NBC-TV's TODAY, on which she will be seen regularly there after."
Date: December 10, 1954
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8312]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Ever see a better picture of a shocked chimpanzee discussing a blank-blank-blank-blank-doublecross? Bill, the chilly chimp, may need earmuffs to shut out 20-degree weather at Lincoln Park zoo, but innocent visitors obviously need them worse to ward off his blistering opinion of it all. He is accustomed, he said forcefully, to kinder treatment from the weatherman. And Aren't we all?"
Date: January 12, 1954
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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