For today’s celebration with the National Hashtag Party theme of “Archives Pool Party,” we are jumping into the summer with these sea lions taking a dive into the Sea Lion Pool at the Bronx Zoo in 1937!
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For Endangered Species Day, we’re revisiting the story from 1905 when Bronx Zoo director William Hornaday formed the American Bison Society (ABS) to save the species from extinction. The Wildlife Conservation Society continues the fight to save wildlife and wild places.
Learn more about the work of the ABS in this Wild View post. For some information about bison at the Bronx Zoo today, look to this week’s Wild View post.
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Happy Mothers’ Day! Here is a South American Tapir with her young at the Bronx Zoo in 1941.
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To celebrate today’s Archives Hashtag Party theme, #ArchivesInBloom, here are the gardens at the Bronx Zoo in 1910 with a view of the former Bird House and Aviary.
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To celebrate today’s 124th anniversary of WCS (founded as the New York Zoological Society), we held a blackout poetry contest using the first page of the Society’s First Annual Report during our staff Library & Archives Open House last week. Here are some selections of the poetry our creative staff came up with!
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Happy Bat Appreciation Day! Here’s an Indian Fruit Bat, also known as an Indian Flying Fox, hanging out circa the 1900s.
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For National Library Week, we’re highlighting books in our library written and edited by WCS authors, both historical and present: William Bridges, William Hornaday, George Schaller, William Beebe, Amy Vedder and Bill Weber, Liz Bennett and John Robinson, and Ullas Karanth.
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For this month’s Archives Hashtag Party theme of #ArchivesArtifacts, we chose to feature our smallest artifact of the archives, this slightly-larger-than-a-penny sized book features photos from the Bronx Zoo. But you don’t need a magnifying glass to see these pictures! They are part of our digitized Bronx Zoo Postcards, which can be found on the WCS Library & Archives website.
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To continue celebrating women in natural history with the Biodiversity Heritage Library, we’re concluding Women’s History Month highlighting Helen Martini. At a time when there was little formal training in caring for zoo animals, Helen Martini used her own intuition, research, and experience to help successfully raise dozens of Bronx Zoo baby animals–at first in her own apartment and eventually in the Bronx Zoo’s first animal nursery, which she began. She never published any technical writings on her work, instead sharing her experiences in a memoir called “My Zoo Family.” Here she is caring for three jaguar cubs and a tiger cub in this 1940s photo.
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Happy First Day of Spring! Here are the gardens at the Bronx Zoo in full bloom in 1910.
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