Results for "Zoo animals"
- Historic Pictures
National Zoological Park
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The National Zoological Park was founded in 1889 to preserve, teach, and conduct research about the animal world. The zoo opened in Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC in 1891, on a site designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and has been home to giant pandas, Asian elephants, and Smokey the Bear. History of the National Zoological ParkAdditional Historic Images of
Eagle Cage, National Zoo
- Date: 1904
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Three Elk at the National Zoo
- Date: c. 1890s
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Ostrich at the National Zoo
- Date: c. 1900
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-006, Friends of the National Zoo (U.S.), Zoogoer Magazine, 2009-2013
- Date: 2009 2009-2013
- Creator: Friends of the National Zoo
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Gallery
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
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-285, Friends of the National Zoo (U.S.), Zoogoer Magazine, 1972-1979
- Date: 1972 1972-1979
- Creator: Friends of the National Zoo
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Website Records, 1996-2021
- Date: 1996 1996-2021
- Creator: National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Flight Cage at National Zoo
- Date: c. 1936
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Flight Cage at National Zoo
- Date: c. 1936
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Flight Cage at National Zoo
- Date: c. 1936
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Document
NZP-0662
