School Children Viewing the First Bison at the National Zoo
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Object Details
- Date
- 1899
- Author
- Johnston, Frances Benjamin 1864-1952
- Subject
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- National Zoological Park (U.S.) Early History
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Notes
- Featured in Torch, October 1989
- Summary
- A group of school children in 1899 viewing the first bison at the National Zoological Park.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 98-015 Box 2 Folder October 1989
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Topic
- Animals
- Children
- Museum visitors
- American bison
- Mammals
- Zoos
- Zoo visitors
- Buffalo
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Standard number
- 2003-19498
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10127