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Happy Valentine's: Cards from the Archives

by Effie Kapsalis on February 9, 2011

Not everyone loves Valentine’s Day, but most everyone loves sweet, cuddly, zoo animals. To honor the day of chocolate and flowers next week, we invite you to send one of these guys to the one(s) you love. If you come up with fun captions, we’d love to hear from you in the comments.

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The Smithsonian National Zoo’s Orangutans, Bonnie and Azy, 1981, by Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number: 96-1376.

Theodore Reed Holding Maned-Wolf Pup, c. 1983, by Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number: 95-266.

Ernest Pillsbury Walker, Assistant Director of the National Zoo, 1930-1956, with a flying squirrel, Smithsonian Institution Archives, siarchives.si.edu, Negative Number: 2002-10670.

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