Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in Africa: Selecting head porters – Historic Reproduction
(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: Selecting head porters
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Roosevelt is shown choosing the men who would lead the safari caravan, a task that mattered greatly when large numbers of porters carried supplies, tents, and equipment across the country. After leaving the presidency, he traveled in British East Africa in 1909 and 1910, hunting and collecting specimens for the Smithsonian. This image survives as a color halftone reproduction, a process that turned a black-and-white photograph into a colored print for magazines and books of the period. The copyright credit to The Illustration Bureau points to the strong public interest in pictures of the expedition.
| Created / published | c1909. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, col. |
| Subjects | Color halftone repro. of photoprint copyrighted by The Illustration Bureau. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Africa--Misc.; Pres. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 998 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139886 |
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