Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in Africa: Lion hunt on Athi Plains – Antique Print
(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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This historic print of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in Africa: Lion hunt on Athi Plains brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in Africa: Lion hunt on Athi Plains
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Theodore Roosevelt's 1909 hunting expedition to British East Africa, now Kenya, drew enormous press attention, and this color halftone reproduces a photoprint of the former president on the Athi Plains, where the party pursued lions. The record notes that the original photograph was copyrighted by Phelps Publishing Co., a Springfield, Massachusetts firm that issued popular illustrated material, though the caption-card details are unverified. Roosevelt's safari, organized with the Smithsonian and financed partly by Scribner's, collected specimens for the National Museum and produced a series of dispatches that made African big-game hunting a national fascination. Halftone reproductions like this one were a common way to bring such photographs into magazines and homes in the early 1910s.
| 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--Lions; Kenya--Athi Plains; Pres. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 977 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139885 |
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