Africa

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and African men with dead elephant.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919-05-14

Photograph shows hunter R. J. Cunninghame and Theodore Roosevelt inspecting a skull in front of a tent.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-04-04

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt seated on horse, three-quarter length, facing front.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-08-09

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt with others in Africa including native people, a man on a mule, and a man holding a camera in the front.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt standing in front of a line of African members of his safari caravan.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-06-11

Photograph showing a line of African men on road, carrying trunks, boxes and other items.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt on horseback watching two African porters bringing the skin of a second big lion to camp.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt standing next to lion killed on safari.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt watching a man measure a rhinoceros’s horn.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919

Photograph showing African men in traditional dress playing drums and various musical instruments.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-04-09

Photograph showing a young man in the foreground folding Theodore Roosevelt’s tent, other men in the background. Taken during Roosevelt’s trip to Africa.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-04

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and others at the construction site of the American Interdenominational Mission, Africa.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-04

Newspaper clipping of a cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt bent down, putting a “big stick” in a safe monogrammed with “T. R.” A pith helmet and pistol lay on the floor. A table top in the left corner has a book “South Africa,” cartridges, and a hunting knife. A “map of South Africa” hangs on the wall next to a framed “contract with The Outlook.” Under the map is a chair with a rifle leaning against it and a cartridge belt. A suit coat hangs under the contract.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909

In the “Book Notes” column, John A. Gable reviews Bully: An Adventure With Teddy Roosevelt which consists of the script of the play of the same name, complemented by eight pages of photographs. Gable quotes from a review of the play and from Theodore Roosevelt IV’s introduction to the book. Gable, as he did in the case of the play and film adaptation, praises the book and author Jerome Alden because he “does not tailor T.R. to fit current social or ideological fashions.”

Marvin R. Morrison reviews The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise which deals with the plight of the African elephant. Theodore Roosevelt’s hunting and his African safari of 1909 figure in the book and review. Morrison quotes Roosevelt, lists some of his fellow hunters, and argues that hunters are conservationists.  

A poem by Reverend Stubenvoll that refers to Theodore Roosevelt as “teddy bear” and recounts his accomplishments.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-07

Perlie M. Huntley writes a salutatory poem about Theodore Roosevelt’s trip and subsequent return from Africa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-03-09

E. J. Ellerston finds it illogical to compare Theodore Roosevelt’s return from Africa to that of Napoleon from Elba.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-11-29

President Roosevelt holds hands with a woman clad in the Stars and Stripes. There is a paper on the ground that says, “Africa–$1 per word.” Caption: By-O, Baby Bunting,/Teddy’s goin’ hunting,/To get a nice, big lion skin/To wrap his stern ambition in./Although we balk at nature fakes,/From mouth to mouth it’s flyin’;/The biggest game he’ll ever take’s/The literary lion.

comments and context

Comments and Context

This cartoon was composed by an anonymous cartoonist (who declined to caricature President Roosevelt, although application of a photograph is not jarring), or perhaps the signature was sublimated in the montage.

Several African men paint a rhinoceros with “whitewash,” pouring “fixative” on it. Caption: His widely advertised wish to capture a white rhinoceros in Africa may tempt the wily natives to get specimens ready for him.

comments and context

Comments and Context

The typically reserved and artistically accomplished Luther Daniels Bradley joined his fellow cartoonists in imagining scenarios inherent in Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming African safari.

President Roosevelt types on a typewriter as a “scout” stands nearby. On the ground is a paper that reads, “The game has all left the country. Mumbo, the scout, reports cigarette boxes thicker than ever on the trail ahead. Looks hopeless. ($22.00)” Beside Roosevelt’s desk is a box of “asbestos message paper.” Caption: It is reported that three New York men are going to hunt in Africa ahead of Mr. Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-10