Object Details
- Author
- Curt Teich & Co
- Subject
- Samson
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Published by Leech & Leech, Inc.
- Summary
- Color postcard of three cubs of a white tiger at the National Zoological Park. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused, but the message side has a printed note about the white tiger: "The first white tiger bred outside of India, is shown with his normal-color litter-mates. The tiger triplets are the first born to Samson and Mohini Rewa, the National Zoo's rare white tiger."
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 01-157, Box 1, Folder: Baby Animals and Certificate of Appreciation
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1964
- Standard number
- SIA2013-07828 (front) and SIA2013-07829 (back)
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Postcard
- Paper
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 2; Color: Color; Size: 5.5w x 3.5h; Type of Image: Postcard; Medium: Paper
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Postcard
- Animals
- Zoos
- Panthera
- Tiger Cub
- Tigers
- Mohini Rewa (Tiger)
- Cats
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13906
