Image ID:  FHS3260
Image Date:   June 30, 1950
Image Title:   [The "real" Smokey Bear upon arrival in Washington, 1950.]
Image Caption:   Caption 1: No. 8 -- Arriving in Washington, the little hotfoot victim was greeted by a pouring rain, Lyle F. Watts, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (center), and Miss Stanlee Ann Miller of Albuquerque, NM, who represeted the school children of her state.

Caption 2: [The "real" Smokey Bear, secured by a harness and chain and held by New Mexico State Game Warden Homer Pickens, in front of the plane that brought him to Washington, DC. Miller and Watts standing behind.]

[This image is one of many promotional photos taken of Smokey in 1950 (see also FHS image ID# FHS3253-3254, FHS3256-3259, and FHS3261-3263). This bear cub was cared for by New Mexico Game Warden Ray Bell after being injured in the 1950 Capitan Gap fire in New Mexico's Lincoln National Forest. The cub was named "Smokey Bear" after the character created in 1944 by the Forest Service and the Advertising Council, and donated by the Forest Service to the National Zoo in Washington, DC where he remained until his death in 1976.]
Photographer:   [Walters, Harold D., for the U.S. Forest Service]
Use Restrictions:   Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:   Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.