View in Grant Park showing Animals, Atlanta, Ga.

This post card describes the scene as such: "This is a view taken in the Zoological Garden in Grant Park which is the oldest and largest park in the Atlanta Park system. That park was donated by Col. L.P. Grant. In Grant Park is a cyclorama painting of the Battle of Atlanta."

Zoo Atlanta, beginning in 1886, remains in Grant Park to this day. Zoo Atlanta, originally, the Municipal Zoo, resulted from a gift by Atlanta lumber dealer George V. Gress, who had purchased a defunct circus for the wagons and rail cars. Gress donated the animals to form Atlanta's first municipal zoo.