Results for "Tiger"
Where Have All the White Tigers Gone?
- Date: August 13, 2015
- Description: A brief history of white tigers at the National Zoological Park, and an explanation of why they are no longer collected.
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The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian
- Date: June 9, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific
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Aww: Cute Baby Animals and Other Field Book Surprises
- Date: May 25, 2017
- Creator: Mignonette (Mig) Dooley Johnson:
- Description: Snapshots of cute baby animals, taken during the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies in 1937.
Cocktails, Cubs, & Costinika
- Date: September 27, 2012
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A slideshow of images from the Field Book Project.
Link Love: 8/9/2013
- Date: August 9, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
The Good Wife
- Date: September 28, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Audio, Video, and PDF's, Oh My!
- Date: February 4, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives releases a new feature on their website which enables their finding aids to be marked up with available digitized media.
Where Will This Lead? Exhibits, Zoos and Video-dating
- Date: January 14, 2020
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.
Sneak Peek 5/1/2017
- Date: May 1, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: "Mohini," a female white tiger at the National Zoological Park, 73-9620.
Sneak Peek 4/24/2017
- Date: April 24, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Taxidermy frame for tiger model for the United States National Museum, MNH-3658.
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See Here: 2/3/2011
- Date: February 3, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="One of a pair of tiger cubs, with a playful appearance, lies on a quilt in its den at the National Zoological Park, The cubs were born on June 14, 1993, to Kerinci, a rare Sumatran tiger who came to the Zoo in July 1989 as part of an exchange with the Jakarta (Ragunan Zoological Garden) Zoo in Indonesia, by Jessie Cohen,
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Understanding the Magic Lantern
- Date: October 2, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Thornewood Estate in Takoma, Washington, by Asahel Curtis, August 1933, Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens."][/caption] Just the other day we received a comment on one of our photos in the new Flickr Commons set of lantern slides from the Archives of American Gardens. A visitor was interested to know whether or not