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Summary

Argues that whiggish accounts of early zoo history makes modern zoo managers overly confident of their improvements and encourages them to think more critically about how zoos, their animals and the public interact.

Subject

  • Olmsted, Frederick Law 1822-1903
  • National Zoological Park (U.S.)

Contained within

Curator: The Museum Journal Vol. number 47, Issue 3 (Journal)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Smithsonian History Bibliography

Date

2004

Topic

  • Popular culture
  • Landscape architecture
  • Zoos
  • Cities and towns
  • History
  • Cities and towns--History

Physical description

Number of pages : 5; Page numbers : 247-251

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