Guess The Year: Hippo Attack!

Can you figure out when and where this photograph was taken? There actually is no recorded date attached to the amazing image, so let's try to crack the code and figure this one out. There are, however, details about where in New York this man put his head in a hippo's mouth, so we'll update later in the day with more information about that.

UPDATE: Since we first posted this photo we've found out the year it was taken in, along with an accompanying photo. The photo was taken sometime around 1910 in Central Park, meaning it wasn't Rose, who didn't arrive until the 1930s (here's some amazing video of Rose and her friend!).

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on August 16, 2010 5:25 PM

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CamoKD

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E2DC163AE033A25754C1A9669D94679FD7CF

Cannibal

Don't mess with hippos, ever. If you see one, run the other way and climb a tree. That's 5,000 lbs of killing machine. They can outswim and outrun humans and account for more human deaths in Africa than any other animal, an average of 30 a day.

King Hippo

That was my great-grandfather... I'm going to say in 1915.

IAM_NY

1904 Central Park Zoo.

plasticmick

1898

John L

Central Park. 1915ish.

John L

on second thought make that 1910.

wac0202

1939 World's Fair, Queens.

gamma_ray

1904. Bronx Zoo.

fixilator

1907

personagratin

Looks like Pete the hippo in the Bronx.

Guest

when: 1942, when a hippo almost went (happily) carnivore on a human. i also think it's 1942 based on what the people in the background are wearing.

where: smells like brooklyn.