Preserving Moments from the Bronx Zoo’s Glass Plate Archive
The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo holds a collection of over 70,000 glass plate and film negatives dating back to 1901. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Archives has received a grant from the New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials to rehouse a portion of the archive to protect it from decay.
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Alligator eating at the Bronx Zoo |
Kodiak bear and keeper, Bronx Zoo (December 18, 1905) |
North Pole explorer Robert Peary’s dogs retired to the zoo in 1902 after they were no longer needed for sled pulling. |
One of four thylacines (Tasmanian tigers) that lived at the zoo between 1902 and 1919 (now extinct) |
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