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African Veldt

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View of African Veldt enclosure with pond at Kansas City Zoo. Ostridges can be seen next to the water.

Date Published
June-1954
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

African Veldt

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View of African Veldt enclosure with pond at Kansas City Zoo. Zebras, ostridges, and antelope can be seen.

Date Published
June-1954
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

African Veldt

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View of African Veldt enclosure with pond at Kansas City Zoo.

Date Published
June-1954
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Baby elephant gets a meal

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Candy, the baby elephant at the Bronx Zoo, from her right side, is being fed straw by a white male keeper, from his left side, kneeling down to hold...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Begging Raccoon at Zoo

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View of a begging raccoon standing on hind legs on rock and concrete wall.

Date Published
June-1954
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Bengal Tiger at Swope Park Zoo

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View of Bengal tiger in cage at Kansas City Zoo.

Date Published
June-1954
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Day the Kangaroos arrived at the K.C. Zoo

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L. Perry Cookingham, Ernest Hagler, and Stu Murdock who is talking into a microphone at Kansas City Zoo for the opening of the Kangaroo exhibit.

Date Published
August-1982
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Fennec foxes at the Bronx Zoo

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Two Fennec foxes crouch together at the Bronx Zoo in New York.

Date Published
September-24-1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Four chimpanzees climb the walls at the Bronx Zoo

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Four young chimpanzees in an enclosure at the Bronx Zoo in New York show curiosity about the door. One hangs from the hinge and window ledge. One...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Frank Theis, Pres Pk. Bd opening African Veldt

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Frank Theis in suit and tie standing behind a microphone beside a uniformed security guard and unidentified woman in yellow dress in front of African...

Date Published
June-1954
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Guinea pig castle at the Bronx Zoo

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A group of four white children (three girls and a boy) stands behind a low metal fence that surrounds the Guinea Pig Castle at the Bronx Children's...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Hippopotamus calf being fed at the Bronx Zoo

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A hippopotamus calf, from its left side, smells a large pan a white male zookeeper is bending to place of the ground at the Bronx Zoo in New York...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

L. Perry Cookingham stands in front of stage at KC Zoo with Joan Embery

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L. Perry Cookingham, Sandy Berkley, Joan Embery, Richard Berkley, and Anita Gorman stand in front of stage at KC Zoo.

Date Published
May-1985
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

L. Perry Cookingham, Joan Embery sit on stage

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L. Perry Cookingham, Joan Embery sit on stage with various musical instruments behind them.

Date Published
May-1985
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

L.P. Cookingham - Pres. Parks & Rec. Comm. K.C.M.O.

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L. Perry Cookingham in suit and tie at Kansas City Zoo.

Date Published
August-1982
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Opening day African Veldt Swope Park

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View of African Veldt enclosure with pond at Kansas City Zoo.

Date Published
June-1954
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

P. at the K.C. Zoo

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L. Perry Cookingham pets Chinchilla being held by unidentified Zoo Keeper from KC Zoo.

Date Published
1990
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

P. at the zoo with keepers

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L. Perry Cookingham stands with unidentified Zoo Keepers from KC Zoo.

Date Published
1990
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Reindeer on Reindeer Mountain

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Three reindeer stand on a rocky protrusion of boulders called, Reindeer Mountain," in their enclosure at the zoo portion of Skansen in Stockholm...

Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Sandy & Gene at Swope Park

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George (Sandy) and Gene Cookingham stand in front of working miniature train in Kansas City Zoo.

Date Published
April-21-1950
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Susan Perry and "uncle" Perry at arrival of "butch" the snow leopard she purchased for the K.C. Zoo

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L. Perry Cookingham standing at microphone with Susan Perry on platform in front of Snow Leopard exhibit in Kansas City Zoo.

Date Published
February-11-1984
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Susan Perry and Cookingham stand at microphone

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L. Perry Cookingham standing at microphone with Susan Perry on platform in front of Snow Leopard exhibit in Kansas City Zoo.

Date Published
February-11-1984
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Susan Perry stands at microphone

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Susan Perry stands at microphone on platform in front of Snow Leopard exhibit in Kansas City Zoo with L. Perry Cookingham.

Date Published
February-11-1984
Member of
L. Perry Cookingham Collection

Zebra mom and colt at the Bronx Zoo

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A mother with a baby zebra stand under a tree at the Bronx Zoo in New York, New York.

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Zookeeper milking a cow

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A white male zookeeper is milking a Jersey cow as a little white girl and a white woman, both in dresses, look on, at the Bronx Zoo's Farm-in-the-Zoo...

Date Published
1953
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

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