SpiRIT Zoo Plaque

Title: SpiRIT Zoo Plaque
Description: SpiRIT would often visit RIT’s campus, but his official home was at Rochester’s Seneca Park Zoo. This 9x12 inch plastic plaque, displaying white text on a brown, faux woodgrain background, originally hung outside SpiRIT’s cage at the Zoo. The plaque states: “Official Mascot of R.I.T. SPIRIT (Student Pride in R.I.T.) Presented to the Zoological Society by the Students of R.I.T. Born – July 29, 1963.”
Creator: Seneca Park Zoo
Date: 1963
Rights: RIT Archive Collections
Format: 9"x12" Plastic plaque
Language: English
Subject: SpiRIT
Source: Collection on Spirit (Tiger)