User:Jengod/List of orangutans in the United States prior to 1950

Orangutans were exhibited at TK World's Fairs in the United States: 1896 Chicago, 1915 San Francisco, 1933–34 Chicago, 1939 New York.

1920 Granger's Marvels of the Universe

long orang article in Literary Digest

List
1922 - half dozen orangs in captivity CONTINUE ORANG-utan AT MAY 1922
 * 1878 - Cincinnati - chimp and orangutan at Zoo June 15 Miss Mollie Tuck and King Pongo Owned by Reiche brothers of New York Dayton, Terre Haute, St. Louis, Galveston, and San Antonio Pongo caught a cold in St Louis and died in New York five weeks later. (Molly died of a severe colic in St. Louis.) Indiana commentary
 * Young female purchased autumn 1879, Philadelphia Zoo
 * "An orang previously in the zoological garden lived 4 years"
 * 1893 - "certain traveling menagerie" sawdust and storytelling
 * Chief Utan Chicago 1893 worlds fair and then to Philadelphia detailed description 1894 Philadelphia Inquirer lots of detail The Wonderful Brain of Chief Utan (1893–1897) Purchased from the Javanese village at the World's Fair for $500 about 10 when died
 * 1897 Boston Joe the Orang attraction at the age four years old pocket watch. Visited Philly. Going to New Orleans
 * 1898 Birmingham, Alabama
 * 1898, Pat Murphy (orangutan) lived with JL Buck in Philadelphia train ticket transfer and outfits, 2 years old. Long journey survived.
 * 1900, 2 at Bronx zoo Rajah Bronx zoo Prince Rajah Bronx zoo 5 orangs Zulu was second-biggest
 * 1902 Bronx zoo, 2 more orangs from Hornaday mother and infant Sikey and Dohong Training smartest 1903. Rajah rode a velocipede
 * 1906 death of Dohong's mother
 * 1907 Dohong uses a lever with good illustrations
 * Muncie, Indiana: Be sure to see the wonderful human-like orang-utan at the zoo. Lambrigger's Zoo
 * 1907 Captain Bronx Zoo caught a cold "his finish is near"
 * 1907 - Cupid versus Orangutan dancer slapped
 * 1908 - death of Prince Rajah detail from book
 * 1909 kissing orangutan butter bread at Boston for Philadelphia
 * 1910 - Edwards Animal Show Hastings Nebraska
 * 1912 - five orangutans
 * Sells Floto, Barney and Estelle, tango orangutans
 * 1917 - Julius Yerkes Harvard 1919 more Julius plus racism 1915 sabbatical Julius Montecito California "thanks to G.W. Hamilton" a former student
 * 1917 - 2 Philadelphia zoo
 * 1920 - Toto female 6yo Bronx zoo
 * 1920 - Windy 6yo New York Zoological Park
 * 1920 Washington Zoo unnamed orang
 * Feb 1921 - San Francisco; mate died hunger strike
 * 1921 Henry Vilas Park Zoo, named Jiggs
 * 1921 - observed by WH Sheak Philadelphia
 * Susie 1921
 * June 1921 ORANG-UTAN red-headed anthropoid ape raisin bread Washington Zoo
 * ditmars orangutans train ride
 * Windy, Bronx Zoo
 * More about Windy
 * march 1923 PRIMATE RESEARCH PARTY
 * 1923 Bessie Central Park Zoo
 * 1924 three chimpanzees and orangutan named Jiggs, Long Beach Pike
 * Barnes circus tuberculosis orangutan
 * Prince Chang
 * San Francisco Exposition orangutan Don Carlos
 * teach kids ABCs orangutan
 * gayety theater Los Angeles
 * Hamburger’s department store
 * National Zoo 1928
 * Ingagi film 1930 said to be from Selig Zoo
 * Mickey and Charlie, San Francisco Zoo
 * Ginger and Mike, acquired 1931, San Francisco Zoo
 * Bobby, Bimbo, Patty-Sue, 1933, St. Louis Zoo
 * norsuto born Philadelphia Zoo 6 in 1936, going blind, son of Maggie and Chief Utan Chief Utan died six minutes after Norsuto was born.
 * 1946 - "several years ago" "female with an infant" - Bronx Zoo - infant lived for five years - "either because of the climate or because they miss the freedom of the forest, seldom live long in cages."
 * 1907 McClure's AW Rolker Prince Rajah

PICK UP at 1933 (go to 1940 instead of 1950?)
 * OTHER ZOOS: 1927 Vilas Zoo, Wisconsin Jiggs moves into new monkey house Jiggs critically ill w inflammation of the bowels
 * OTHER ZOOS: Jennie at Kapiolani Park in Hawaii
 * May 1928, male orangutan arrived in Hoboken, SS City of Florence
 * Great ape personhood issues in suit over Napoleon, Louisiana and St Louis
 * OTHER ZOOS: Sultan large orang at Feather Hill Ranch Zoo in Montecito, California

Film orangs

 * Ingagi - chimpanzee Mary, two well-known state orangs + Melvyn Koontz and lion
 * the Playhouse
 * Joe Martin
 * Jiggs
 * Prince Chang

Circus orangs

 * Barnes circus Jiggs 1922 1924
 * 1922 Bangs and Jiggs w info about performances

Bronx Zoo, New York City

 * Gabong 1922 noted to have fingerprints like a human
 * Dempsey builds a nest when ill
 * Jennie
 * windy's present, 3 hands of bananas
 * Dohong fix trapeeze

Philadelphia Zoo

 * Ayesha wearing headphones
 * First baby orangutan born in captivity in the United States, September 1928 Named Lucky
 * Lucky died of pneumonia, new baby born 1930

National Zoo, Washington, D.C.

 * 7yo orang died, body to Johns Hopkins for dissection, circa 1924

Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago

 * Nancy and Jiggs, 2 babies