- 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
Animal feeding--Georgia--Atlanta
Peanuts--Georgia--Atlanta
Clothing and dress--1950-1960
Costumes--1950-1960
Children--1950-1960
Children--Clothing and dress
Women--1950-1960
Governesses
Families--Georgia--Atlanta
Zoo animals
Zoo Atlanta
Talmadge, Betty Shingler, 1923-2005
McGill, Ralph, 1898-1969 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of people at the Atlanta Zoo in Atlanta, Georgia including Georgia Governor Herman Talmadge's wife Betty and their two sons, feeding peanuts to elephants, Penny and Cocoa II. Atlanta journalist Ralph McGill is standing to the left in the dark suit.
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 33.33.07
ahc033033007a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/MJohnson/id/120
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white safety film
- Original Collection:
- Marion Johnson Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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