Candy, the baby elephant at the Bronx Zoo, from her right side, is being fed straw by a white male keeper, from his left side, kneeling down to hold some straw. A fence with onlookers behind it and trees are in the background.
No date; likely 1953
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Typewritten note attached to back, "6. The heaviest baby in the Bronx Zoo is little Candy, a baby Elephant, now living in the Elephant House. Candy weighs about 1000 pounds, and is about 2 1/2 years old. Eventually, when she gets to be a little larger, she will carry children on her back around the Bronx Zoo's Animal Riding Track." Stamped on the back, "New York Zoological Society Photo The Zoological Park."
