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Archival description
VIS/3/2 · File · 1850-1999
Part of Visitors

Tickets signed by Fellows to let the bearer into London Zoo. Also includes letters from later donors of the tickets

Artist's tickets
VIS/3/1 · File · 1856-1904
Part of Visitors

Tickets to admit artists "to the Gardens for the purpose of making studies from the Animals". Also includes a letter (28 June 1958) from Landsborough Thomson about the tickets

Ivory Ticket list
VIS/3/5 · Item · 1897-1949
Part of Visitors

Volume listing holders of ivory tickets to both the Zoo and Aquarium, between 1897 and 1949. List seems not complete. Ivory tickets were issued as yearly entrances passes into the Zoo/Aquarium and would be handed over/shown at the gate in the same way

VIS/7 · File · 1962-1980
Part of Visitors

Correspondence and papers regarding official visits by organisations and people to the Zoological Society of London, the majority being other Zoos and Zoological Societies

Personalities and visitors
VIS/4 · Series · 1958-1997
Part of Visitors

DTAA: Reception for Prime Minister [Margaret Thatcher], 1985; DTAB: Solly Zuckerman, 1968-1988; DTAC: Lady Oppenheimer, 1966-1970; DTAD: William Timym, 1987-1997; DTAE: Dr Desmond Morris, Curator of Mammals, 1958-1965.