Roosevelt at Rio Janeiro (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Roosevelt at Rio Janeiro
[1913]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil before the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to
the Amazon River which began in 1913. Dr. Lauro Severiano Muller
(1863-1926), Foreign Minister of Brazil and military engineer is to
the right of Roosevelt. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15002
Call Number: LC-B2- 2934-1
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frank_ohara added this photo to his favorites. (30 months ago)
Wystan (30 months ago | reply)
Bain's caption on the negative says "Roosevelt at Rio Janeiro."
Wystan (30 months ago | reply)
Former President Theodore Roosevelt, at age 55, defeated in his 1912 attempt at election for a third term as the candidate of the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party, in 1913 sailed for Brazil to embark on his life's last great adventure, exploring the uncharted rain forest via the River of Doubt. Marked by poor planning, inadequate equipment, and a surfeit of bad luck, the expedition was harrowing, to put it mildly, and TR nearly died (as in fact some in the party did) -- but ultimately in 1914 he and his son, Kermit, and others in the party made it back to the embrace of civilization. (And the River of Doubt now bears the name Rio Roosevelt.) Roosevelt lived to write a book about his ordeal, "Through the Brazilian Wilderness." The story has recently been updated and retold in a gripping bestseller (2005) by Candice Millard -- "The River of Doubt; Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey," a book that comes highly recommended by its many readers, myself included.
Another Bain/LOC photo of Roosevelt in Rio Janeiro:
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Pope Jeremy added this photo to their favorites. (30 months ago)
Ryan (LOC P&P) (30 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the information about the trip, Wystan. Next time we update the records for these images, we'll add the 1913 date.
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