Safaris

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt with a dead rhinoceros and a bustard shot from the rhinoceros.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-05-14

Photograph shows Theodore Roosevelt and others including African men with a dead elephant at Meru, Kenya.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919-05-14

Photograph shows hunter R. J. Cunninghame, Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller, and Hugh H. Heatley standing with African buffalo skulls in front of tent.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919-05-14

Photograph showing a male lion shot by Kermit Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919-05-14

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt & Kermit Roosevelt with three eland heads in front of a tent.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919-05-14

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and African men with dead elephant.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919-05-14

Photograph shows Theodore Roosevelt with a dead elephant at Meru, Kenya.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919-05-14

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

A drawing depicting Theodore Roosevelt dressed in hunting clothes with an ammunition belt and pith helmet holding a rifle and standing in water past his knees.

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 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

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

Theodore Roosevelt hopes W. Robert Foran’s album of African photographs is successful and believes there is a real interest in such a book. Foran is the only newspaper correspondent to accompany Roosevelt on his entire safari, primarily because of his previous experience as an officer of the British East African police.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-10

Scenes of African peoples and of Theodore Roosevelt’s safari party, all probably filmed in British East Africa (Kenya) in 1909. View of Roosevelt planting a tree in front of trading company building, possibly located in Mombasa; Roosevelt and members of his party examine a gun in the presence of African tribesmen; unidentified tribesmen pose individually for camera at close range, with campsite visible in background; at campsite porters work busily, either setting up or breaking camp, with Roosevelt briefly visible; view of Kikuyu and/or Masai dance in honor of Roosevelt’s visit; Roosevelt party crosses stream, with porters carrying gear and safari members across water toward camera; rainmaker dances in ritual ceremony, surrounded by Swahilis; members of unknown tribe draw water from a well, with large thatched structure in background; views of Masai men, women, and children in kraal, with clear shots of mud houses; Roosevelt and his party appear in group of Kikuyu and/or Masai tribesmen; women who are probably Masai form ceremonial circle on open plain.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1909

Lewis Morris Iddings forwards a letter from Sir F. R. Wingate to President Roosevelt regarding Roosevelt’s upcoming African safari.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-03

President Roosevelt does not want a map printed showing his prospective travel in Africa. He asks that Albert Shaw communicate in the future with Clark, and rejects a suggestion that he take a new photo in hunting gear. Roosevelt would like Shaw to reuse a previously taken photo if possible.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-02