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[Photograph: OHPG0325]

Description: Edna Sue Lincoln stands in front of Griffins's Hamburger Stand in Sand Springs, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. The stand opened in 1919 and moved to its site at 1st and Main in Sand Springs in 1926 and was finally demolished in 1988 with building of the SH412.
Date: 1945~
Partner: Keystone Crossroads Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8329]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "If the elephant really looked like this, he could get a (?) that trunk. And if Dr. Thomas were really this tall, he'd (?) "high as an elephant's eye."
Date: May 1, 1963
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10610]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Recess was a time for looking-not playing-at Oak Dale school Monday. Students at the Hartzell township schoolhouse kept their noses pressed to windows and fences all day as police cars and volunteer searchers pressed the hunt for the zoo's missing leopard in the bottoms along Deep Fork creek."
Date: February 27, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10591]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "T. W. Aynes, 4102 N Santa Fe, and his son Billy were typical of the volunteers who turned out for the leopard chase Monday. Aynes took up a post on one of the many bridges over the Deep Fork creek in hopes of spotting the cat slinking along the water."
Date: February 27, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8370]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Friendly ferocity is expressed by one of Lincoln Park Zoo's two white rhinos. Zoo officials are hoping that the pair of rhinoceroses will produce and offspring. It would be quite a coup for the Oklahoma based pair, as no white rhino has ever been born in captivity."
Date: August 21, 1964
Creator: Heaton, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8393]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Natives of kinder climate, some of the hardier denziens of Monkey island, left ventured out Thursday for a look at their white playground, then huddled on their ship prow."
Date: January 18, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8337]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Playing peek-a-boo with frisky animals isn't usually a good game for the dead of the winter, bu Lincoln Park Zoo officials say our unseasonably warm days are luring the animals into ideal viewing situations. A number of little fellows are in the bunch, including this inquisitive giraffe, born Oct. 21."
Date: February 5, 1970
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8371]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Boo! If We had space we'd enlarge this picture of a rhinocerous iguana into a "prehistoric monster" like they do in Hollywood. But this 3 1/2-foor, 10-pound exhibit at Lincoln park is ferociou enough zoo officials report. When the eggs she deposited are hatched there will be at least 20 more "beauties" just like her at the zoo."
Date: July 30, 1957
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8363]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Mathilda, safely immered in her new home, stares up at Gayla Peevey, the little girl whose fast-selling Christmas song started the chain of events that tied a Yule ribbon around a 700-pound hippo."
Date: December 24, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8356]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Even Hemingway couldn't have dreamed a better plot about Africa and its beasts than the life story of one rare creature now inhabiting Lincoln Park Zoo. Luka and Makubwa, a pair of mountain gorillas, are so extremely rare that their presence alone is cause enough for wide-mouthed looks. But Luka survived an epic experience of violence in the Congo they day that country celebrated its new independence in blood. Specie… more
Date: April 20, 1964
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10604]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A wild 175-pound leopard made an impossible leap from his pit at Oklahoma City's Lincoln Park zoo and the entire nation waited impatiently while 3,000 hunters armed with everything from cap pistols and ice picks to high-powered rifles gave chase to the wild beast. Specially-trained lion dogs lead the big safari over a wide area northeast of Oklahoma City in a two-day search, but the big cat was too smart for them. It took… more
Date: 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8300]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "If there was anyone who liked the 8-inch snow which covered Oklahoma City, it was the tough guy of Lincoln Park zoo, Carmichael, shown surveying the polar-like scene outside his cage."
Date: January 18, 1949
Creator: Miller, Joe
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10549]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bids for construction of Lincoln Park Zoo's new dietary kitchen, nursery, and racoon grotto have been approved. Dr. Warren Thomas, zoo director, said five firms made bids for construction of the facilities. Lippert Bros. Construction Co., Oklahoma City was low bidder ar $54,445. Dr. Thomas said the 'coon grotto will be natural rock inclosure with ever-changing water an a tree in the middle of it. Racoons will be transpo… more
Date: 1962
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8386]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elkins, the Lincoln Park elk, is having a hard time trying to make up his mind about whether he likes the snow. He was better off than most buddies farther north. Zoo attendents here spread out plenty of hay and feed when sleet slapped an icy blanket over park pastures. Elkins' Yankee friends were having a hard time digging through the snow and ice to get enough to eat."
Date: January 25, 1949
Creator: Johnson, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0202]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Using a surveyor's transit for a telescope, workman at the new Lincoln Plaza complex takes a long look into city's future. The motel, office and market center, which stretches from NE 42 to NE 46 on Lincoln Blvd., has begun its final stages of construction."
Date: February 10, 1970
Creator: Hill, Ron
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8388]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(photo of an amarkhor/mountain goat with a go-tee/beard on a rock, a child at front on the ground, another in the background, and more)"
Date: June 5, 1978
Creator: Reed, Monty
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8310]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "City's zoo's baby chimp, Bill, now is grown-up enough to have his own cage and meet the people. So far, zoo visitors haven't given him a chanceto get lonesome. They stand three deep around his cage. The youngster's peering in here are, left to right, Butch Robinson, 5, of 2611 N Shartel; Michael Blaine, 9, 2358 Elmwood; Marvin Lawrence, 9, of 2213 Somerset."
Date: July 12, 1950
Creator: Pyer, Ronald
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8322]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The kids had to fight with pop for a good view as Judy, the baby elephanr, toured downtown Oklahoma City. After a show at Municipal auditorium, Judy was officially welcomed during the parade."
Date: May 21, 1949
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.3516]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Getting a new face-lifting is Lincoln Park Golf course, where everyone is working full speed in an effort to complete the operation in time for the Oklahoma City open early in June. The figure (1) in the center of the picture shows the location of the new clubhouse, while other features are (2) a new green being built in the center of the present sixt fairway on the south course; (3) No. 7 green on the north course, an… more
Date: March 2, 1961
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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