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Item
Title
D124490-10
Date(s)
- 1959-12-30 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Home portrait of an unidentified man holding the B&I's chimpanzee April and toddler Jimmy Janne; labeled "April receiving insurance policy." Photograph ordered by the B&I Sales, buyer Wally Baker. April was purchased by B&I owner Earl L. Irwin from the Charles Janne family of Seattle. She had been raised from the age of 9 1/2 months by the Janne family as a family member. (TNT 10/22/1959, pg. D-1 full page ad by the B&I)
Chimpanzees--Lakewood; B&I Circus Store (Tacoma);