Results for "Pandas"
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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.
Saving Giant Pandas: Conservation at the National Zoo
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.
Panda-monium!
- Date: April 16, 2012
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Arrival of giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling to the National Zoological Park.
Panda-Rama
- Date: July 11, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling arrive at the National Zoo.
Happy Birthday Bao Bao!
- Date: August 21, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: The National Zoological Park celebrates its giant panda cub, Bao Bao's first birthday on August 23, 2014.
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Lisa Stevens: The Inspiring Career of the “Panda Lady”
- Date: September 1, 2020
- Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.
Link Love: 12/11/2020
- Date: December 11, 2020
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
The Archival Legacy of Devra Kleiman
- Date: May 25, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Barbara Bingham
- Date: September 9, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Link Love: 9/9/2016
- Date: September 9, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: New to the interwebs: a massive archive of 150 years of photography capturing Russian life from more than 40 institutions and collections. [via Hyperallergic]Nominate your favorite .gov website for the U.S. Federal Government End of Term Web Archive! [via The Signal, Library of Congress]Why save a computer virus, indeed?! [via The Conversation]Giant pandas are no longer
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Link Love: 6/26/2015
- Date: June 26, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Where the Wild Things Are
- Date: July 26, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Take a look at the residents of the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1973 with these newly digitized images.