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On board the SS Guiana in NYC. TR was leaving on a 5-week Caribbean trip for health reasons.

Thanks for connecting this to the photo of Marjorie Sterrett, puzzlemaster. We'll add some information about their meeting to this record the next time we update.

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Other Bain/LOC photos of former President Theodore Roosevelt in South America: The Butantan Institute was founded in 1901 (after an outbreak of bubonic plague) to facilitate medical research. In May of this year (2010) the Institute was devastated by a fire that destroyed its collections of venemous snakes and spiders.

LOC: Caption should include "Roosevelt Leaving"

Thanks for catching the error, artolog. We'll make the correction the next time we update.

"Colonel" in 1914, five years after leaving the White House? Interesting. "After his return to civilian life, Roosevelt preferred to be known as "Colonel Roosevelt" or "The Colonel." As a moniker, "Teddy" remained much more popular with the general public, despite the fact he found it vulgar and called it "an outrageous impertinence." [47] Political friends and others working closely with Roosevelt customarily addressed him by his rank." -- Wikipedia

The things I learn on flickr

Former President Theodore Roosevelt stands on the deck of the steamship Aidan, in New York harbor, on May 19, 1914. The ship had docked minutes earlier, after returning Roosevelt from an eight-month ordeal in South America where, with his son Kermit and others, he had explored a hitherto unknown river through the Amazon jungle -- called "The River of Doubt," but afterwards named "Rio Roosevelt." The harrowing adventure was told recently in the bestselling book "The River of Doubt," (2006) by Candice Millard. Here's another Bain/LOC portrait of T.R., taken at the same time but filed out of sequence:

Ein fantastisches Bild.

Thank you Wystan, for providing the context of this image - Roosevelt's return from South America. We will add some of the information to the description when we update.