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Chief Lyle Watts and New Mexico Game Warden Homer Pickens Present the Real Smokey Bear to the National Zoo

2009-3552
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2009-3552
3.5 x 4 inches
Black & White
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Smokey Bear is being introduced to school children at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. At the table are (L to R): U.S. Forest Service Chief Lyle F. Watts; Spicer Conant, 8, who accepted Smokey on behalf of the children of Washington, D.C.; an unidentified man; Smokey; Stanlee Ann Miller, representing the children of New Mexico where Smokey was found; and Homer Pickens, Game Warden of New Mexico. Stanlee Ann Miller of Albuquerque is the granddaughter of New Mexico Senator Dennis Chavez.

Date(s)
June 30, 1950