Results for "Smithsonian Institution National Zoo: 125 Years (Website)"
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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
Welcome to Smithsonian History on Our New Website!
- Date: October 18, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Webpage
Capital Mysteries #9: A Thief at the National Zoo
- Date: March 9, 2022
- Description: KC Corcoran and Marshall Li must solve mystery of who stole the tiger jewel from the National Zoo.
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
- Date: January 9, 2020
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
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.
- 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
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 13-125, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Office of Education, Exhibition Records, 1978-1979, 1995-1996, 2003
- Date: 1978 1978-1979 1978-1979, 1995-1996, 2003
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Office of Education
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Website Records, 1996-2021
- Date: 1996 1996-2021
- Creator: National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-095, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2013
- Date: 2013
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Collection
Website Records, 2019-2020
- Date: 2019 2019-2020
- Creator: National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Document
The Bigger Picture - Page 125|Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Document
The Bigger Picture - Page 125|Smithsonian Institution Archives
