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Girls with swans at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, 1937
Order an ImageIn 1899, Seattle bought Woodland Park and its small zoo from the Phinney family. Most of the animals were kept in cages with bars and concrete floors. Visitors could go right up to the cages and feed the animals. During the economic depression of the 1930s, workers with the federal government's Works Projects Administration (WPA) built several animal habitats at the zoo.
Written on original envelope: Seattle-parks-Woodland Zoo (swans)
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): March 19, 1937
Written on original envelope: Seattle-parks-Woodland Zoo (swans)
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): March 19, 1937
ID Number: PI24721
Date: 1937
Physical Description: 1 safety film negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, PI24721
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
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