Elk in the Buffalo Barn, National Zoo
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Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1895
Citation: NZP
Designed by Boston architect William Ralph Emerson, the Buffalo House was the first structure completed at the newly established National Zoological Park. Because of the lack of funding, both bison and elk were housed in the building for the first years of the park's history.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1895
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88-7612 or NZP 60
Color: Black and White; Size: 8x10; Type of Image: Architectural; Medium: Photographic print