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Bronx Zoo?, New York City – Antique Wall Art

Bronx Zoo?, New York City, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Bronx Zoo?, New York City, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Bronx Zoo?, New York City, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The caption card names the Bronx Zoo, but the question mark after the title means the location is not firmly established, and the print is an elephant photograph. The Bronx Zoo opened in 1899 as the New York Zoological Park in Bronx Park and grew into one of the country's best-known zoos, with large animal exhibits that drew big crowds. The record gives no date, so the picture is best read in general terms, as a glimpse of how zoo animals were shown to city visitors, probably in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Zoos; Animals--Elephants.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,243 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157582

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