Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Conservation Biology Institute (National Zoological Park)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See Neg. # 20100729-0363MM1 for a view of the buildings in 2010.
- Summary
- View of the Conservation and Research Center (CRC), now known as the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI), of the National Zoological Park in Front Royal, Virginia, where endangered species are studied and bred. In the foreground animals are grazing in a field and in the distance, among the rolling hills, are CRC houses and animal buildings.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9553, Box 1, Folder: CRC
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1987
- Standard number
- SIA2011-1456
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Landscape
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Color; Size: 6w x 4h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Front Royal (Va.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Conservation
- Endangered species
- Rare animals
- Zoos
- Wildlife conservation
- Record ID
- siris_sic_5871
