"Of Benefit and Interest to the Children of Salt Lake City" the Tracy Aviary BY MIRIAM B. M U R P H Y
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Girls admire seals at the Tracy Aviary. Seals were amotig the few animals other than birds exhibited there. Tracy Aviary scrapbook, USHS collections.
11 A.M., SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1938, the Tracy Aviary in Liberty Park opened its grounds to the public. Sea Scouts acted as guides to the new four-acre facility with its several hundred birds and a few other animals, notably a quartet of shy seals. By the end of the year an estimated 60,000
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Ms. Murphy is associate editor of Utah Historical Quarterly.
