Zoo Celebrates Centennial
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PrintThe National Zoological Park celebrates its centennial on March 2, 1989, 100 years to the day after President Grover Cleveland signed the legislation establishing the Park. Director Michael Robinson welcomes 1500 people who came to celebrate the event, including guests Mrs. Barbara Bush and S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, "The Torch," March 1989, p. 1.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
March 2, 1989