Results for "Zoos"
Note from Zoo keeper William Blackburne in reference to two famous turkeys
- Date: 1918 June 8, 1918
- Creator: Blackburne, William H
Letter from Mr. R. C. Deming to Zoo Superintendent Ned Hollister
- Date: 1918 June 4, 1918
- Creator: Deming, R. C
National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds
- Date: 1888
- Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory
National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds
- Date: 1888
- Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory
National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds
- Date: 1888
- Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory
National Zoological Park, Relief Model of Rock Creek Park and Zoo Grounds
- Date: 1888
- Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory
Letter from Mr. R. C. Deming to Zoo Superintendent Ned Hollister, with note
- Date: 1918 June 4, 1918
- Creator: Deming, R. C
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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
- 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
Going Wild with Golden Lion Tamarins
- Date: July 25, 2019
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: In 1984, the National Zoo began reintroducing golden lion tamarins to the wild resulting in a conservation success.
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.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 16-167, Friends of the National Zoo (U.S.), Records, circa 1967-1985
- Date: 1967 1967-1985 circa 1967-1985
- Creator: Friends of the National Zoo
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
