[Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's expedition to Africa]: Exact position of party when big bull rhinoceros was shot

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Rather than a portrait, this print records a hunting moment: its caption places the party at the exact spot where a large bull rhinoceros was shot during Theodore Roosevelt's African expedition. Roosevelt, who had left the presidency in 1909, spent about a year in British East Africa and neighboring territories, collecting specimens for the Smithsonian Institution with his son Kermit. Expedition photographs like this one helped document the hunt for readers back home, where Roosevelt's accounts of big-game hunting drew wide interest. The record dates the picture only to circa 1909, so the exact occasion remains uncertain.

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