During the economic depression of the 1930s, workers with the federal government's Works Projects Administration (WPA) built Monkey Island and several other animal habitats at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. This photo, taken on a sunny day in May 1946, shows people watching the antics of the monkey colony on Monkey Island at Woodland Park.
Written on original envelope: Seattle-parks-Woodland Zoo Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 13, 1946
ID Number: PI24732
Date: 1946
Physical Description: 1 negative : safety film, b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
