Donations to NZP from Woodward and Lothrop
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PrintCheetahs and exotic birds are donated to the National Zoological Park by Woodward and Lothrop Department store. The animals, including a baby elephant that died from a congenital lung deformation, were displayed by Woodies' in the window of their downtown department store in December 1966, prior to their move to the Zoo on January 26, 1967.
National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, "The Torch," January-February 1967, p. 1.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 26, 1967