Smokey Bear Conservation Pledge and Song
Object Details
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Smokey Bear Conservation Pledge: I give my pledge as an American to save and faithfully to defend from waste the natural resources of my country--its soils and minerals, its forests, waters and wildlife." Smokey Bear song was written by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins. Both sheets have drawings of Smokey and other forest creatures. Created by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Smokey Bear wildfire control campaign in the 1950s.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 326, Box 83, Folder: Smokey Bear
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Date
- c. 1952
- Standard number
- SIA2019-000024a and SIA2019-000024b
- Author
- United States Dept. of Agriculture Forest Service
- Subject
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- Smithsonian Institution and United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Document
- Paper
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 2; Color: Color; Size: 9.163w x 11.715h and 9.163w x 11.662; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper
- Place
- United States, DC, Washington
- Topic
- Bears
- Smokey Bear
- Advertising--Forest fire prevention
- Nature conservation
- Music
- Record ID
- siris_sic_14920
