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The "Godmother of Africa," 1955
In 1955 Bolton self-financed a 99-day mission trip to Africa. This trip allowed Bolton and her crew to travel over…
West Africa, 1950
At the time of the 1950 collecting expedition, there were only four independent nations in Africa. In 1960, the year of…
East Africa Expedition, 1955
During the first half of the 36 day excursion to East Africa in 1955, Fletcher Reynolds and his son worked with local…
Stouffer's Safari, 1955
The 1955 collecting expedition to East Africa was financed by local businessmen Gordon and Vernon Stouffer of Stouffer's…
Negro World Newspaper
Marcus Garvey's newspaper provided an outlet for working-class blacks to express their frustrations with the white…
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey was the leader and namesake of the Garveyism movement and UNIA until his death in 1940. He additionally…
Cleveland's Zoo Goes on Safari
A walk through the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo offers visitors a glimpse into a carefully curated society of animals from…
Ingagi: The Film of a Thousand Wonders.
Ingagi was "one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of the movies," and played at the Cinema Theater in 1930, under…
Africa Screams, 1949
The animal trade industry provided stories of adventure in foreign lands to the public. Traders became celebrities, many…
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Madison (left) standing in front of blueprint plans with colleagues. This may have been the firm's design for the U.S.…
Captured Animals, 1955
The 1955 expedition to East Africa was the largest animal collecting excursion led by the Cleveland Zoo. Headed by…
Rev. Waller in Egypt, 1967
In 1967, Rev. Waller joined the Preaching Mission Team of the National Baptist Convention on a 30-day tour of West…
Rev. Waller and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the pulpit of Black churches provided a space where controversial and challenging ideas…
Populating Monkey Island, 1936
Nathan Dauby, manager of the May Company, presented the City of Cleveland with a colony of 150 monkeys from Africa…
Penguin Order, 1945
Until the middle of the 20th century, the international animal trade was predominately supplied by colonized counties in…
Guarding Livestock, 1960
The Cleveland Zoo's 1960 expedition to Kenya and Tanganyika in Eastern Africa was nearly canceled due to political…
West Africa Safari, 1950
With funding available to the Cleveland Zoo for expansion in the late 1940s, major projects included the construction of…
Cleveland Zoo Expedition, 1960
The purpose of the 1960 expedition to East Africa extended beyond just collecting animals. Reflective of the growing…
Animal Donation, 1933
Many members of upper class society also had direct ties to the animal trade. Naturalists, collectors of exotic…
Liberty Hall
After the Great Migration a new nationalist movement arose in African American communities across the U.S., with Marcus…
The Great Depression and the Zoo
The Great Depression was a trying time in the City of Cleveland. As early as 1931, nearly one third of the city's…
Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Church
Drawn more by economic opportunity than oppression, Arabs from numerous countries in western Asia and northern Africa…
Painter Estate
Kenyon V. Painter (1867 - 1940) grew up on the 25th block of Euclid Avenue. His father, John Vickers Painter, a wealthy…
African American Cultural Garden
The African American Cultural Garden was dedicated in 1977 following years of effort by local community leaders such as…
