Polar Bears at Zoological Gardens, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.

Item Information

Title:
Polar Bears at Zoological Gardens, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.
Description:
A picture postcard shows two polar bears through the bars of their cage playing near their swimming pool in the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts. Landscape architect Arthur Asahel Shurcliff designed the Franklin Park Zoo.
Publisher:
Tichnor Bros., Inc.
Format:
Postcards/Cards
Prints
Photographs
Genre:
picture postcards
photomechanical prints
photographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
PC001: General photographic collection
Subjects:
zoos (built complexes)
swimming pools
parks (public recreation areas)
Ursus maritimus (species)
animal cages
Emerald Necklace (Boston, Mass.)
Franklin Park (Boston, Mass.)
Franklin Park Zoo (Boston, Mass.)
Shurcliff, Arthur A. (Arthur Asahel), 1870-1957
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Dorchester
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Roxbury
Extent:
1 postcard
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/195339
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Identifier:
195339
Call #:
PC001.03.01.TMP.067