 The park district allowed the museum to use one of the surviving giraffes in a booth at a fall festival held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1968 . The museum subsequently acquired most of the remaining animals in 1969 , after a search through the storage building containing the animals . The animals and parts of animals had to be searched for in corners and under boxes in the park district storage building . Besides a large number of horses , 2 more giraffes , a lion , and a tiger were found . Photographs of the animals were sent to Frederic Fried , an expert in carousels , who confirmed that the animals were made in the United States , not Germany , probably before 1900 . He also confirmed that they were carved by the Dentzel company . 
