Buffalo Outside the Smithsonian Castle

Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
March 11, 2013
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Two buffalo in the South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building (“The Castle”). They were acquired in 1886 by the Department of Living Animals, which eventually became the National Zoological Park.