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Philadelphia Zoo postcards. [graphic].
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Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor
Furness & Hewitt, architect.
Title
Philadelphia Zoo postcards. [graphic].
Date
1900-1980
Physical Description
74 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Contains architectural views of various animal habitats at the Philadelphia Zoo, along with views of visitors watching and feeding the animals. Depicts the entrance to the zoo, flanked by two pavilions built 1875-1876 after designs by Furness & Hewitt; the statue of The Dying Lioness designed 1873-1875 by Wilhelm Franz Alexander Friedrich Wolff near the entrance pavilions; a rustic bridge; a flower garden; the Carnivora House; the Monkey House near the lake; the Beaver dam; the shady walk showing fish pond; swan pond; the bird house; the interior of a flying cage in the bird house; the corner of a polar bear den and the zoo barn. Also includes views of bears, beavers, a dromedary (Arabian camel), sea lions, an elephant bathing, a bison herd, a rhinocerous, a white-tailed gnu (antelope), a hippopotamus, moneys, horses and a chimp. Also includes pedestrians walking and riding in carriages through the zoological garden.
Notes
Contains 55 postcards printed in color and 13 printed in black and white. Also includes 6 linen postcards.
The Philadelphia Zoological Garden was the first zoo to open in America in 1874.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Zoos -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Zoo animals.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Girard Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 3400.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1980.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1980.
Associated name
Furness & Hewitt, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Zoo - 94]
Accession number
Brightbill 94
094-a01-b
094-a02-c
094-a03-b
094-a04-b
094-a05a-a
094-a05a-c
094-a08-b
094-a10-b
094-a11a-b
094-a12-a
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