Theodore traveled with his family to Egypt and Syria, where he collected numerous birds. By then a skilled taxidermist, he skinned and mounted the birds himself. If young Roosevelt's collection ...

As a sickly young boy in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt learned taxidermy and started his own collection of stuffed specimens. At age 12, he donated some of them – a dozen mice, a bat ...

which became the first specimen in his natural history collection Peter Zablocki - History Correspondent By age 11, Theodore Roosevelt boasted that he had 1,000 scientific specimens in the ...

Displays of this nature were standard in the diplomatic culture of the kingdom. | Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University Roosevelt was drawn to Buganda’s culture of ...

Theodore Roosevelt (standing immediately to the left ... Like other specimens, it was given a number and outfitted with labels to help collection staff keep track of it within the museum’s ...

Exhibits at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will ... “There’s a pretty extensive collection of rifles and guns,” O’Keefe said. Finally, the museum tour ends with an epilogue ...

Theodore Roosevelt is best known as the 26th President of the United States and the legendary "rough-rider" of the Spanish-American War. But much less is known about his deep connection and love ...