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[Photograph 2012.201.B0313B.0281]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Most people assume Bob Jenni was the type of small boy who plagued his mother with mice in the bureau drawers and snakes under the bed."
Date: August 8, 1957
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0313B.0276]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Strict concentration is called for as young Jerry and Marie Birkes, 2717 Normandy, start mixing a batch of food for the birds."
Date: December 20, 1957
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0313B.0271]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "In the five months since it opened, the reptile exhibit at Lincoln Park zoo has grown to rank third among municipal zoos in the United States in the number of species exhibited."
Date: September 2, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0313B.0274]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Bob Jenni displays the prize of 350 snakes he started showing last weekend at Lincoln park zoo-a 17 1/2-foot Anaconda constrictor."
Date: May 20, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8368]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A woobkly, stiff-legged baby zebra, born sometime during the night, had Lincoln Park zoo attendants bracing Friday for a large turnout of youngster over the weekend. The little stipped colt was found in his mother's pen Friday morning when zoo workers started making their rounds. "A baby zebra is one of the cutest things in any zoo," beamed Julian Frazier, director. "You don't find a lot of them born in captivity and… more
Date: 1958
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8384]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A 5 1/2-foot Cuban Boa Constrictor at Lincoln Park zoo's reptile garden is the protective mother of two baby boas born Wednesday. The young snakes, born live, are about a fourth the size of their mother and bulging with baby fat that will support then without any food for as long as six months. The mother snake was free in the Cuban wilds 10 weeks ago when she was captured. She has been at the zoo's reptile garden tw… more
Date: November 2, 1955
Creator: King, Cliff
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8383]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "It might take "two to tango" - but you can bet your life these two critters aren't in any mood to do a South American dance step. Our brave photographer crept within a few feet - 15 to be exact - to snap this pictures of these two diamondback rattlesnakes playing their favorite game. These were two of 75 snakes that arrived at the Lincoln Park Zoo's reptile garden Thursday morning adding a little more stock to the alm… more
Date: July 28, 1955
Creator: Peterson, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1002.0553]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Baby gorilla, sheltered by Dr. Warren Thomas, ponders a $100 check presented by Keith Young, secretry-manager of Moose Lodge 1785."
Date: October 3, 1960
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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