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[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10603]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Herbert Rogers, taxidermist, starts to work on the meandering leopard from Lincoln park zoo which set the nation agog. It will be sstuffed and placed on exhibit at the capitol."
Date: March 1, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8364]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Holding Court at the other end of this line of Lincoln park visitors Sunday was Mathilda, the hippo that had Oklahom'a Christmas sock bulging. Marvin Crain, attendent, estimated some 4,000 persons flocked to the zoo as compared with 10,000 who turned out to greet the hippo Christmas day and "They all wanted to see Mathilda." Restless when she first arrived in Oklahoma City, the hippo seemed "quite content" Sunday, Crain r… more
Date: December 27, 1953
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8335]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Sixe-Foot-Tall Son was born to a Lincoln Park Zoo giraffe Friday afternoon. The baby, not yet named, weighs about 150 pounds and is well marked, keepers said."
Date: June 19, 1965
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10582]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An eager hunter grips his gun and waits for a sight of the escaped leopard in the plot of tall grass police officers burned Sunday six miles morth end five miles east of the city zoo. Hundred of spectators watched a score of officers burn several acres in hope of driving the animal from hiding. But he wasn't there."
Date: February 26, 1950
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10554]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Aerial photo of a small lake at center, bottom left is an amphltheater, walk paths and roads surrounding, and more.)"
Date: October 22, 1952
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8314]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Chilly chimp, who donned a cap and sweater to face Oklahoma's wintry blast, is Skeeter, the 2-year-old cut-up at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Actually, it was all a gag for the photographer, since Skeeter lives in the zoo's primate building where tropical 70-80 degree temperatures prevail."
Date: January 18, 1960
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10565]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Long-range plans for zoo are shown in park department sketch. Black areas are exisiting or proposed buildings. A long-range plan for expanding and improving the Lincoln Par Zoo at a cost in excees of $2 million, is under study by the city park commission. On completion of projects under the city's current bond program in 1963, the zoo will be equipped with a new diest kitchen and animal nursery, racoon grot… more
Date: 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10605]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "New Yorkers, in addition to thriving on stories of the leopard hunt, snapped up "Okay" the leopard. Advertising men featured a stuffed toy for $4.98, tied with the4 headline type makeup in the ad, and sold them to thrill hungry customers. Chester A. A. Smith, and Oklahoman in New York during the leopard hunt, wrote it was amazing the amount of interest shown in progress of the chase for the escaped cat."
Date: 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10589]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This helicopter, manned by two artillery officers, was pressed into Oklahoma City's leopard hunt Monday after its arrival from the artillery training department at Fort Sill. It hovers over a gulch in the rugged country northeast of Lincoln Park zoo from where the 175-pound cat has been on the loose since Saturday afternoon."
Date: 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8358]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A Giant Gargle sure beats the heat Tuesday at the Oklahoma City Zoo, especially if your mama is Mathilda Bronx, the famed hippopotamus who likes to be sprayed with a fire hose on warm days."
Date: August 4, 1970
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.10608]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of four guys looking into a wood and metal cage, two guys with flashlights, one straight in front of the door, and more.)"
Date: February 27, 1950
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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