ex-President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) standing over an African bull elephant he shot in Meru, Kenya, during the Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition in 1909 where he, along with his son Kermit, sought to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new Natural History Museum.


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Location: Meru, Kenya, Africa.
Photo credit: © Alpha Historica / Alamy / Afripics
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