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Title	Brookside Park Photographs
Subject	Plants and Animals Arts and Entertainment Zoos Parks Construction
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	Four 10.5 by 13.5-inch (26.67 by 34.29 cm) photographs show Brookside Park in Cleveland, current home of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. The photographs were taken before the zoo moved from its first home at Wade Park. Construction is visible in the first two photographs. One was taken looking toward the W. 25th Street bridge. Piles of stone in the middle of the picture were for a bridge to span Big Creek. Another shows the site where the children's farm and amusement area would be built. The knoll on the left of the third photograph would become the site for the Bird Building. In the fourth photograph appear the future sites of the children's farm (at right), the deer paddocks (at left and center) and the Bird Building (left). In 1882, Cleveland industrialist Jeptha Wade (1811-1890), a founder of Western Union Telegraph Company, donated seventy acres of land (now known as Wade Oval in University Circle) along Doan Brook to the city of Cleveland for use as a public park. The city purchased additional adjacent land to create Wade Park, the city's first zoological park. Wade contributed some of the zoo's first animals, white tailed deer. Construction of an art museum in 1905 prompted the city to find a new home for the zoo, Brookside Park near W. 25th Street. The move from Wade Park to Brookside Park was a gradual one that took nearly a decade. In 1970, the Cleveland Metropolitan Park District assumed responsibility for operating the zoo. In 1975 the name of the zoo was changed from Cleveland Zoological Park to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.
Date of Original	1898
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om529_923696_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om529_923696_001.tif
Image Height	3317
Image Width	4138
File Size	4696.074 KB

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