Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in Africa: Kermit Roosevelt's narrow escape – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in Africa: Kermit Roosevelt's narrow escape
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Kermit Roosevelt, the former president's son, is the figure at the center of this scene, which shows a near miss during the family's hunt in British East Africa. Theodore Roosevelt made the trip in 1909 and 1910, after leaving the White House, and the expedition collected specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. Its caption card includes the tag "Animals--Cheetahs," suggesting the danger came from a big cat, though the record gives no fuller account. The image is a color halftone reproduction of a photoprint, the kind of illustrated reprint that carried expedition photographs to a broad public.
| Created / published | c1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, col. |
| Subjects | Color halftone repro. of photoprint, copyrighted by Phelps Publishing Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Africa--Misc.; Hunting; Animals--Cheetahs; Pres. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 980 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139884 |
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