Theodore Roosevelt was the inspiration for the teddy bear. The popularity of a new stuffed bear toy in the early 1900s coincided with a political cartoonist's publicizing a famous presidential bear hunt. 

This diorama was underwritten in the 1940s by the Boone and Crockett Club, a hunter-naturalist club founded in 1888, chiefly by Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell, editor of Forest and Stream, to promote the preservation of large game.