Original vintage circa 1934-35 glossy 4.75 x 3.75 candid photo of his second wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, with a fallen gazelle on the Serengeti Plain during a hunt, annotated on the reverse in pencil by Hemingway, "P.O.M. [Poor Old Mama] with Robertsi Grants gazelle," with additional Scribner's filing notations in another hand. In fine condition. This photograph depicts a scene from Hemingway’s three month winter safari in 1934-1935 with Pauline in the big-game country of East Africa, during which he camped out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. Pauline was a major character in his second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa, published in 1935. In chapter six, Hemingway recalls hunting a Grant’s gazelle: 'I did some bad shooting in the heat on a Grant’s gazelle that the volunteer skinners asked me to kill them for meat, wounding him in a running shot after missing him three or four times, and then following him across the plain until almost noon in that heat until I got within range and killed him.' Offering an inkling of the inspiration for Green Hills of Africa, this is a spectacular Hemingway piece.
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