Photograph: Theodore Roosevelt in Nahuel Huapi National Park, 1913

Unknown Photographer | from Multimedia Library Collection:
Archival Gems
Brochure of Nahuel Huapi National Park with Theodore Roosevelt standing on the shores of the lake. Photograph taken during his visit to the park in 1913 as a guest of Francisco Moreno. (Unknown photographer. Public Domain.)

This image appears in: Wakild, Emily. “Blurring Boundaries: Nahuel Huapi National Park.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia 2015, no. 5. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6915.

As the oldest park in South America, Nahuel Huapi served as a reference, a landmark, and a source of pride for proponents of other parks. Former United States president Teddy Roosevelt visited the future park area in 1913.

—Emily Wakild

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