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| Title | Bobo the gorilla's fourth birthday, Seattle, July 1955 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1955 |
| Caption | Anacortes native Bill Lowman brought an infant lowland gorilla home to his parents in 1951. Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Lowman raised the gorilla, which they named Bobo, as part of the family. Two years later, when Bobo grew too big to stay in the Lowmans' home, he moved to Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. Until his death in 1968, Bobo was one of the city's best-known residents, delighting a generation of children and adults.
This July 1954 photo shows Raymond Lowman and his granddaughter Claudia Lowman serving birthday cake to Bobo the gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo. Each year, the zoo invited children and television personalities to celebrate Bobo's birthday. |
| Notes | Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 22, 1955. |
| Subjects | Gorillas--Washington (State)--Seattle; Zoos--Washington (State)--Seattle; Children & animals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Cakes--Washington (State)--Seattle; Woodland Park Zoo |
| Personal Names | Lowman, Claudia
Lowman, Raymond |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Phinney Ridge (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI24760 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
