Results for "National Zoo: The Zoo Behind the Zoo (Video recording : 1989)"
Here at the Smithsonian: Trips to the National Zoo
- Date: October 26, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Watch two recently-digitized clips featuring scenes at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 1982.
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Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo
- Date: May 17, 2018
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now
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SIA Acc. 02-175, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Production Records, 1984-1989
- Date: 1984 1984-1989
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 02-143, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Production Records, 1988-1989
- Date: 1988 1988-1989
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 09-154, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Productions, 1989
- Date: 1989
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 09-040, Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian Productions, Productions, 1988-1989, 1994, 1997, undated
- Date: 1988 1988-1989 1988-1989, 1994, 1997, undated
- Creator: Smithsonian Press/Smithsonian Productions
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
A History of Celebrating the Insect Zoo
- Date: August 23, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: When you think of the National Museum of Natural History, what comes to mind are probably inanimate things—rocks and dinosaur bones, cultural objects, and stuffed animals. But did you know that the museum has a collection of live insects? Today is the 35th anniversary of the opening of the permanent installation of the Insect Zoo, though the Zoo actually began as a temporary
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SIA Acc. 09-041, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Productions, 1989-1991
- Date: 1989 1989-1991
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Gone But Not Forgotten: Former Animals at the National Zoo
- Date: May 27, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A number of animals who used to call the National Zoological Park home are no longer there.
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SIA Acc. 15-006, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Productions, circa 1989-1996
- Date: 1989 1989-1996 circa 1989-1996
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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“Do Pandas Affect Everyone This Way?”: Celebrating 50 Years of Giant Pandas at the National Zoo
- Date: April 14, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: This year marks the 50th anniversary since the arrival of giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the National Zoo. To celebrate, we’re highlighting some giant panda records at the Archives.
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National Zoo
- Date: September 19, 2013
- Description: The National Zoological Park was conceived by William Temple Hornaday and established by an act of Congress in 1889. The Smithsonian’s collection of living animals was originally intended to aid taxidermists’ studies, but Smithsonian Secretaries Spencer F. Baird and Samuel P. Langley helped expand the small menagerie’s purpose. Today it houses over 2,000 animals of around 400