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[Theodore Roosevelt in Africa kneeling by head of dead rhino and dead large bird] – Historic Print

[Theodore Roosevelt in Africa kneeling by head of dead rhino and dead large bird], [ca. 1909] — historic photograph
[Theodore Roosevelt in Africa kneeling by head of dead rhino and dead large bird], [ca. 1909]. Historic photograph from the Presidents collection.

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Roosevelt kneels beside the carcass of a rhinoceros, with a large dead bird laid out nearby, in a scene the caption places in Africa around 1909. That was the year he left the presidency and set out on a long hunting expedition in East Africa, which collected specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. The photograph survives as a lantern slide by Edward Van Altena, a glass-plate format that was projected before audiences during lectures and talks about the trip. The caption-card information is unverified, but the pose shows how such trophy photographs presented big-game hunting as both sport and scientific collecting.

Created / published[ca. 1909]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsLantern slide by Edward Van Altena. Kermit Roosevelt Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pres.; Geogr.; Hunting; Animals--Rhino.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,454 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-151581

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