Children's Zoo Scene

1935/1980

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Children's Zoo Scene
  • Title
  • Children's Zoo Scene
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F21.I06
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F21.I06
  • Description
  • The Highland Park Zoological Gardens, now the Pittsburgh Public Zoo and Aquarium, opened on June 14,1898, due in large part to a generous donation of $125,000 by philanthropist Christopher Lyman Magee for the construction of zoological gardens in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood. In 1949 Pittsburgh’s first Children’s Zoo opened following the receipt of a grant from the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation. In 1994 the Zoo made another major transition from a city operated organization to a private non-profit operated organization. The Children’s Zoo reopened as Kid’s Kingdom on May 27, 1995. Kid’s Kingdom, an interactive facility with playground equipment and hands-on human to animal encounters, is regarded as one the top three children’s zoos in the United States. The Zoological Society of Pittsburgh currently owns and operates the Pittsburgh Public Zoo.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Children--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Pittsburgh Public Zoo and Aquarium (Pa.).Children's Zoo.
    Highland Park Zoological Gardens (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Zoos--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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