Casual portrait of Edward Curtis with Quentin Roosevelt and a dog by the water at Sagamore Hill.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph is identified as a cropped version of a photograph in the Library of Congress online catalog by the title "Listening to a story", dated ©1904, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LOT 10512, Library of Congress number 2009633576; summary: "Photograph showing Walter Russell sitting on a beach with Nicholas and Quentin Roosevelt as dog digs a hole in sand at Sagamore Hill. The identification of the newspaperman Russell (formerly thought to be Edward S. Curtis) is based on correspondence found at Sagamore Hill. (Source: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site curator, (viewed May 2021)2013)".
The image has been cropped, removing the figure of Nicholas Roosevelt, who lies on his back in the foreground of the original image.
Forms part of a collection of lantern slides by Curtis (ARC 1176).