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Animal cage, Bever Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Visitors of all ages surrounding an animal cage. Bever Park was established in 1893, after the death of prominent Cedar Rapids businessman Sampson Bever, whose family owned the wooded land. The Bever Park Zoo, which would become home to lions, bears, alligators, monkeys and other animals, opened in 1901, and trolley service to the park, then two miles outside of the Cedar Rapids city limits, began in 1904. 1910 postmark. Number 49.
Title Animal cage, Bever Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Alternative TitleBever Park Zoo
Index Date 1910
Type of Resource still image
Genre postcard
Physical Extent Real photo color reprint, divided back.
Medium 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Digital Extent 1 file
Media Type image/jpeg
Provenance Purchase or donation
reproduction Scanned with HP Scanjet 4670 at 600 ppi. Archival master image available in tiff format.
Date Issued 1910?
citation/reference Save CR Heritage (http://www.savecrheritage.org/)
Language English
Topic Linn County (Iowa)
Topic Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Topic Parks
Topic Animals
Topic Women
Topic Children
Topic Bever Park
Cartographic 41.988028, -91.626306
Classification MS 108, Box 1, ihpc_cedarm0005
Related Item Iowa Historical Postcard Collection (IHPC)
Related Item Grinnell College. Special Collections and Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Identifier (local) ihpc_cedarm0005
Identifier (local) grinnell:14127
Access Condition Grinnell College Libraries does not own the copyright in these images and therefore cannot give or deny permission to publish or distribute any of them. It is the researcher's responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or distributing material from this collection. Any materials used must carry a credit line: Historic Iowa Postcard Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Grinnell College Libraries.
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/14127
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