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Title
The bear pits, looking south
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.3]
Title
The monkey house from the south
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
ca. 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.5]
Title
Bear pits
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Zoo [P.9119.9]
Title
The aviary
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.5]
Title
The Monkey House
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Zoo [P.9119.7]
Title
Zoological gardens, Philadelphia
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1922
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1619]
Title
Philadelphia Zoo Photograph Album
Description
Album of photographs predominantly showing the grounds of the Philadelphia Zoo in Fairmount Park, in West Philadelphia. Contains views of the Victorian-style gatehouse after the designs of Frank Furness; "The Dying Lioness" statue after the design of Wilhelm Wolff casted in 1875 at the entrance courtyard; lions, tigers, a jaguar and a zebra walking, standing, and grazing in their caged areas; an elephant, camel, lama, mountain goat, and caribou in fenced yards; buffalo grazing on a pasture; and Solitude, the country retreat of John Penn built in 1785 on the grounds of the zoo (miscaptioned as "Wm Penn's House, Fairmount Park"). Images include zoo keepers, visitors, gates, fencing, "Admission Today" signage, and partial views of other buildings on the zoo grounds. Also contains portrait photographs of a man and woman, probably Josie and Emil, and sculler "Andrew C. Craig, Undine Boat Club" on the Schuylkill River. Craig view also includes cityscape and trees along the riverbank in the background. The Philadelphia Zoo, the first in the nation, opened in 1874.
Title
Eagle house
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.18]
Title
"Solitude," (Penn Villa.)
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.19]
Title
Vicuna, (Lama, Vicugna.)
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.2]
Title
Vicuna, (Lama, Vicugna.)
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.8483.3]
Title
Giraffe, (camelopardalis giraffa)
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - Zoo [P.9119.17]
Title
[Grey wolf, (canus occidentalis)]
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.8483.2]
Title
Bruchall's zebra
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
c1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9119.14]
Title
"Solitude," from the bear pits
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
ca. 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.6]
Title
American elk, (cervus canadensis.)
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
ca. 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.4]
Title
American elk, (cervus canadensis.)
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
ca. 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.3]
Title
Giraffe, (camelopardalis giraffa.)
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
ca. 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.2]
Title
Giraffe, (camelopardalis giraffa.)
Creator
Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date
ca. 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Sons - zoo [P.9169.1]
Title
Dining room, Zoological Garden
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Zoo [P.9119.10]
Title
Photograph album
Creator
Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date
1877-1880
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Browne [P.9317]
