New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century
Object Details
- ed
- Hoage, R. J
- Deiss, William A
- Subject
- Ewing, Heather Peale
- Hornaday, William Temple 1854-1937
- Robinson, Michael H
- National Zoological Park (U.S.) Early History
- Category
- Smithsonian History Bibliography
- Published in association with the National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution. Includes illustrations, bibliographic references and an index. Foreword by Michael H. Robinson.
- Summary
- Most of the chapters are derived from papers delivered at a symposium held October 1989 to celebrate the centennial of the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park. Volume includes chapters on the history of the National Zoological Park itself. Chapter by Heather P. Ewing details the architectural history of the National Zoo.
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1996
- Edition
- First
- Physical description
- Number of pages: 216; Page numbers : 1-198
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Rock Creek Park (Washington, D.C.)
- Publisher
- Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Zoos
- Architecture--Washington (D.C.)
- Parks
- Record ID
- siris_sic_12506
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