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Civilian Conservation Corps engineering foreman

Civilian Conservation Corps engineering foreman

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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

Creator(s)

Fairbank, Chandler D. (Chandler Davenport), 1908-1994

Lester Ken Knight’s camera club at Little Missouri River

Lester Ken Knight’s camera club at Little Missouri River

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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

Creator(s)

Fairbank, Chandler D. (Chandler Davenport), 1908-1994

Lester Ken Knight’s camera club

Lester Ken Knight’s camera club

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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

Creator(s)

Fairbank, Chandler D. (Chandler Davenport), 1908-1994

Lester Ken Knight and camera club

Lester Ken Knight and camera club

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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

Creator(s)

Fairbank, Chandler D. (Chandler Davenport), 1908-1994

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Frank M. Chapman to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Frank M. Chapman to Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-09

Creator(s)

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

Letter from Frank M. Chapman to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Frank M. Chapman to Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-05

Creator(s)

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

Getting practice

Getting practice

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.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-16

The Naturalists’ Graflex

The Naturalists’ Graflex

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01

Creator(s)

Unknown