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Invitation for the Boone and Crockett Club special meeting and annual dinner taking place on December 20th, 1911. An reservation confirmation for the dinner addressed to the treasurer is also included.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09
Postcard is part of the Roosevelt Tour series. Image on front shows a hippopotamus walking through a swamp. Reverse has the description: “HIPPOPOTAMUS IN THE SWAMP. The hippopotamus is found in every river with water enough to cover him when he lies down, and in nearly every lake and marsh in the Uganda Protectorate, in which country the Roosevelt party are now hunting. He is a serious impediment to navigation at the northern end of Lake Albert and on the Upper Nile. There is no immediate danger of his becoming extinct, for in the vast marshes he is hard to reach and for years to come is to a great extent safe from the white man’s bullets. This is a direct photograph, taken as will be noticed, at close range, and shows the animal feeding in the swamp.”
1909