A tent for Roosevelt the hunter

––– Roosevelt’s tent, as supplied by Benjamin Edgington: advert in Travel & Exploration magazine The bear-hunting activities of the US president ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt were the subject of a post a while back. This advert from a 1909 copy of Travel & Exploration magazine is for the Benjamin Edgington tents supplied for Roosevelt’s Africa shooting expeditions. Benjamin Edgington is a legendary name in the world of explorers and hunters. From its premises at 2 Duke Street on the south side of London Bridge, it equipped Britain’s – and the world’s – campers. The company had a stand at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and made an enormous marquee – 185 by 80 foot – for the Stockton and Darlington Railway’s Jubilee celebrations in 1875. It adopted the lightweight, A-frame ridge tent designed by mountaineer Edward Whymper in 1862, a design that carried on into the 20th century. In 1898, SW Silver and Co. of Cornhill and Benjamin Edgington Ltd of London Bridge merged and carried on supplying…