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H. I. Hadsell asks Theodore Roosevelt what camera Roosevelt found best in Africa. Hadsell is focused on animal and bird photography and shares what kind of equipment he currently uses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-15
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-09-27
Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945
English
Rudolph Forster asks the Eastman Kodak Company to send President Roosevelt a five-by-four folding pocket Kodak camera.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-15
Civilian Conservation Corps engineering foreman Hugh “Bill” Hempel holds a camera in the North Unit badlands of the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
This photograph shows Lester Ken Knight’s Camera Club members taking pictures of the Little Missouri River on a log concretion in the North Unit of the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
This photograph shows Lester Ken Knight’s Camera Club members taking a picture of Theodore Roosevelt’s name painted on a log in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. Historians believe Roosevelt did not write the name since the spelling is wrong. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
The photograph shows the Lester Ken Knight’s Camera Club sitting on an old car in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
President Roosevelt believes it is too late for Kermit Roosevelt to learn how to use a new camera. Roosevelt appreciates the malaria advice from William L. Smith.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-27
President Roosevelt encloses a “rather puzzling” letter from the Kodak Company for his son Kermit. He asks if the camera is the kind Kermit wants, or if he should order a different kind. Roosevelt is glad that Kermit is out for the “freshman football eleven” and that he is going to attempt the two-mile run. He also tells a humorous story about Quentin selling a pig to “the animal man” for the profit of a nickel, and leading the pig in a parade.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-17
J. Alden Loring knows little about Kermit Roosevelt’s camera, but Frank M. Chapman, Curator of Birds at the American Museum of Natural History, can tell Frank Harper, Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary, what he wants to know.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-09-22
Frank M. Chapman thanks President Roosevelt for agreeing to view some of his photographic field work. He plans to travel to Gardiners Island soon to make a movie of birds. Chapman wishes that Kermit Roosevelt would be able to come to the American Museum of Natural History sometime in the summer to look at the various cameras and practice with them. He also says that if this is possible, he could arrange a meeting with a taxidermist who recently returned from British East Africa who could give Kermit many tips. Chapman agrees with Roosevelt on some confusion regarding some conventions of zoological classification.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-09
Frank M. Chapman would like to show President Roosevelt slides of the pictures of birds he took on Pelican Island last March. He suggests going to Oyster Bay when Roosevelt returns there. He believes the pictures will illustrate how naturalists are making “permanent, graphic records of natural history facts in demonstrable form.” Chapman also discusses a new Biograph camera, which may be useful for Roosevelt to take on his trip to Africa to photograph wildlife.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-05
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.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910
President Roosevelt fires his “no. 2 for birds” shotgun at a “Panama lyre-bird” (Joseph Pulitzer) in the African wilderness. Meanwhile, a “Congress” lion and “Foraker & Brownsville” hippopotamus stay in the background. Roosevelt is surrounded by his big stick–“for fighting at close quarters”–a typewriter, a notebook, a wireless box, a camera, a “no. 6 for lions etc.” gun, a toothbrush, and a book entitled “Wild Animals and Their Habits.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-16
This advertisement showcases the Naturalists’ Graflex Camera, which is described as being “designed especially for naturalists’ work in photographing birds, wild animals, or similar subjects where long-focus or tele-photo lenses are required.” It describes the construction of the camera, including the materials it is made of and the types of lenses it can accommodate. Prices for the camera and extra components are listed at the bottom. The verso contains a partial advertisement for a different type of camera.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01
Puck stands next to a camera, dangling marionette figures of well-dressed men before a woman holding a lorgnette, reclining on a seat across the room.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-12-14