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I’d like to think that Tian Tian, the male panda at the National Zoo, handed out cigars to all the other bears to celebrate the birth of his and Mei Xiang’s baby late last night. Frederick Stuart Church letter to Mike Gavin, 1905 or 1906?. Frederick Stuart Church collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

I’d like to think that Tian Tian, the male panda at the National Zoo, handed out cigars to all the other bears to celebrate the birth of his and Mei Xiang’s baby late last night.

Frederick Stuart Church letter to Mike Gavin, 1905 or 1906?. Frederick Stuart Church collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

8 months ago