- Collection:
- Marion Johnson Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Cocoa the Elephant
- Creator:
- Johnson, Marion, 1917-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1950-03
- Subject:
- Zoos--Georgia--Atlanta
Elephants--Georgia
Crowds--Georgia--Atlanta
Police--Georgia--Atlanta
Law enforcement officers--Georgia--Atlanta
Zoo animals
Zoo Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of a crowd of people around an elephant at the Atlanta Zoo, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Cocoa was a female Asian elephant and had been born in the wild. She became a part of Atlanta businessman Asa Candler's personal menagerie via the Hamburg Zoo in Germany. Upon the death of Atlanta City Zoo's elephant Maude in 1933 Candler donated Cocoa. Cocoa died in 1950 and the children of Atlanta raised money for the zoo to buy two new elephants to replace Cocoa. The new elephants were Cocoa II and Penny. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 33.33.06
ahc033033006a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/MJohnson/id/105
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white safety film
- Original Collection:
- Marion Johnson Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
