Articles by Osa
Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum
Here is a list of known articles by Osa. We are sure many more exist, and we update the list frequently when new-to-us articles are discovered. If you have any information on further writings by Martin or Osa, please contact the museum so we can continue to update this information!
| 1923 | A Wife in Africa , A Girl's Story of Adventure in " Never-Never Land ". Photoplay (?): 32- 34, 109. |
| 1924 | My Home in the African Blue. Good Housekeeping 78 (Jan): 48-49, 167-170, 173. |
| 1927 | I Told You So. Good Housekeeping 85 (Sept): 24-25, 148, 151-152, 154, 156, 158, 161. "At Home" in Africa . Natural History 27 (Nov): 560-569. Mirrors of the Jungle. Collier's 80 (Dec 10): 10-11. |
| 1929 | Jungle Babies. Good Housekeeping 88 (Feb): 36-37, 246, 249, 250-254. |
| 1930 | Bad Boy. Good Housekeeping 90 (Jan): 58-59, 96. Toto-Tembo, The Baby Elephant of the African Jungle: His Story. Good Housekeeping 90 (Feb): 58-59, 296. Toto-Twiga, The Quaintest Jungle Baby in Africa , Who Wears a Spotted Coat and Never Cries. Good Housekeeping 90 (Mar): 58-59, 240, 243-244. Little Simba, Mrs. Martin Johnson Tells of a Funny Little Lion Cub Who Grew up to be King of the Jungle. Good Housekeeping 90 (Apr): 58-59, 287-288, 291. Punda, The Bad-Tempered Baby of the Jungle. Good Housekeeping 90 (May): 60-61,206, 208, 211-212. Nick, Old Mother Baboon's Baby, The Playboy of the Jungle. Good Housekeeping 90 (June): 66-67, 271-272. Chua Kidogo, The Little Spotted Jungle Cat Whose Tail is as Long as Himself. Good Housekeeping 91 (July): 66-67, 185-186. Ringside Seat. Good Housekeeping 91 (Aug): 60, 211-213. |
| 1932 | Bubbles, Baby Hippo. Good Housekeeping 94 (Jan): 22-23, 166-167. Bong, A Jungle Kitten, With Spots on His Coat but None on His Character. Good Housekeeping 94 (Feb): 60-61, 207-209. Teddy Tantrum, A Small Conscientious Objector to a Lot of Silly Human Ideas. Good Housekeeping 94 (Mar): 44-45, 116-121. Tumbu, a Monkey Whose Beauty Was More than Skin Deep. Good Housekeeping 94 (May): 40-41, 245-248. Ticky and Ricky, Mongoose Playmates Who Were as Courageous as They Were Curious. Good Housekeeping 94 (June): 50-51, 108, 110, 113. Snowball, A Black Baby Gorilla with a White Record. Good Housekeeping 95 (Aug): 80-81, 166-168. Boom-Boom Birds. Good Housekeeping 95 (Oct): 44-45, 128, 131-132. Flying Flame: The Story of a Flamingo City on Lake Nakura . Good Housekeeping 95 (Dec): 26-27, 161-162. |
| 1935 | Flying Over Africa . Taxi-Strip, Wichita Issue 2, no. 3 (June): 5, 33. Baboons To You, But Blah-Boons To Mrs. Martin Johnson. Good Housekeeping 101(Sept): 64, 154, 156. Pantaloons, The Story of a Baby Elephant Whose Birthday Suit was too Big. Good Housekeeping 101 (Oct): 34-35, 98, 100, 102. |
| 1936 | No Sir, A Big Bad Pig that wasn't so Dumb as She Looked. Good Housekeeping 102 (Feb): 40-41, 116. Spike and Mike, Two Restless Captives Who Worked Hard for Freedom. Good Housekeeping 102 (June): 38-39, 182-184. Polka-Dot Pets: An African Adventure with a Happy Ending for Four Orphans of the Wilderness. Good Housekeeping 103 (Nov): 38-39. |
| 1937 | Wah Wah's Wings, A Chapter Out of the Life of the World's Most Famous Flying Ape. Good Housekeeping 104 (Jan): 38-39, 114. Jungle Dinner. Hearst's International Cosmopolitan 102 (Jun): 74-76, 79. Jungle. American Magazine 124 (July): 146. Increase in Game Menace in Africa . New York Times Magazine (Sept 26): II; 1-2. Grass Fires Kill African Wild Life. New York Times Magazine (Oct 10): II; 1-2. Africans Rebel at Playing Slaves. New York Times Magazine (Oct 17): 29. Natives Endanger the Johnson Party. New York Times Magazine (Oct 24): 29. Lions Prey on Band Fleeing Ethiopia . New York Times Magazine (Nov 14): 25. |
| 1940 | Speaking of Pictures...Cannibals Roast a Man. Life 8 (Mar 25): 12-14. I am a Woman of Adventure. Philadelphia Inquirer (May 12):1,4. I Married Adventure. Readers' Digest 37 (Sept): 109-127. Lady, or the Elephant? Excerpt from I Married Adventure. Scholastic 37 (Dec 2): 19-20, 27. |
| 1942 | Osa Johnson Doesn't Stalk Hats and Coats in Jungles. Amarillo Globe (Jan 16): 20. Life in the Solomons. Collier's 110 (Sept 26): 32-34. |
| 1944 | We "Shoot" Elephants. In Invitation to Reading, Book 2. Elmer R. Smith, ed. Pp. 43-51. Kangaroo. Frontiers 8 (April): 105-106, 126. |
Articles by Martin
Here is a list of known articles by Martin. We are sure many more exist, and we update the list frequently when new-to-us articles are discovered. If you have any information on further writings by Martin or Osa, please contact the museum so we can continue to update this information!
| 1910 | The South Sea Islander as Seen by a Kansas Boy. Kansas City Journal, Aug 21. |
| 1917 | Martin Johnson's Diary. Independence Evening Star: Dec 19 - Feb 23, 1918. |
| 1918 | Among Tropic Isles Under the World's Rim. Asia 18 (Sept): 737-744. |
| 1920 | The Cannibal and the Camera. Ed. Film Magazine May: 18-19, 26, 28. |
| 1921 | A Camera Man in Borneo . Asia 21 (Feb): 125-140. Close-Ups of a Cannibal Chief. Asia 21 (Apr): 346-352, 362, 364. Long Shots from the Malekula Bush. Asia 21 (June): 532-537, 560-562, 564-565. Wild Men of the New Hebrides . Asia 21 (July): 598-611, 646-647. |
| 1923 | In the African Blue. Asia 23 (June): 442-446. Martin Johnson's African Photographs. World's Work 46 (June): 184-192. Martin Johnson's Photographs of Wild Animals in Africa . World's Work 46 (July): 293-300. Stalking Wild Animals with a Camera. Asia 23 (July): 479-484, 536-537. Elephants at Home in a Garden of Eden. Asia 23 (Aug): 566-570, 606-608. What I Am Trying to Do. World's Work 46 (Aug): 373-383. Great Cats of British East Africa . Asia 23 (Dec): 917-923, 959. |
| 1924 | Filming of Untouched Africa . World Today 43 (Jan): 143-153. Scenes from the Plains and Jungles of Africa . Natural History 24 (May): 289-296. |
| 1925 | Martin Johnson's Story and His New Pictures of Wild Animals in Africa . World's Work 49 (Apr): 599-620. Stalking Elephants to Get Close-Up Pictures. World's Work 50 (May): 75-85. Martin Johnson's Story and His New Pictures of Wild Animals in Africa . World Today 45 (June): 584-604. Stalking Elephants to Get Close-Up Pictures. World Today 46 (July): 704-713. Extracts from the Diary of Martin Johnson. Natural History 25 (Nov): 571-594. Martin Johnson's New African Diary. World's Work 51 (Nov): 53-68. Martin Johnson's New African Diary. World's Work 51 (Dec): 173-188. |
| 1926 | Martin Johnson's New African Diary. World Today 47 (Feb): 200-214. Martin Johnson's New African Diary. World Today 47 (Mar): 335-348. Hunting Lions with a Flashlight. World's Work 52 (June): 135-150. Hunting Lions with a Flashlight. World Today 48 (July): 120-136. Shooting Rhinos with a Flashlight. World's Work 52 (July): 259-273. Shooting Rhinos with a Flashlight. World Today 48 (Aug): 219-234. |
| 1927 | In Cannibal-Land. In Literature in the Junior High School, Book 2. Emma Miller Bolenius, ed. Pp. 26-34. Scenes from Akeley's Africa . Natural History 27 (March): 172-173. 8-page insert. Camera Hunts in Jungles of Africa . New York Times Magazine (July 17): IV; 4-5, 19. Laughs and Thrills in Camera-Hunting. New York Times Magazine (July 31): IV; 4-5, 21. Wild Neighbors of the African Jungle. New York Times Magazine (Aug 14): IV; 8-9. The Camera as an Aid to the Naturalist. Scientific American 137 (Aug): 152-153. Shooting Lions with the Movie Camera. Literary Digest 94 (Aug 6): 52-57. Picturing Africa. Natural History 27 (Nov): 539-560. Desert Nincompoop. Saturday Evening Post 200 (Nov 5): 16, 169-170, 173. In Lion Valley. Delineator 111 (Dec): 12-13, 48. |
| 1928 | "My Wife Holds the Gun..." American Magazine 105 (Feb): 44-47, 160-163. Elephants. Delineator 112 (Feb): 14-15, 50. Giraffes and Their Enemies. Saturday Evening Post 200 (June 16): 35. Monkey Tricks and Traits. Delineator 113 (July): 19, 84-85. |
| 1929 | Taming Elephants. Saturday Evening Post 201 (Jan 5): 37, 130, 135. Nice Lion! Collier's 83 (May 4): 12-13, 50. Giving a Jungle Show to a Lion Audience. Literary Digest 101 (May 11): 60, 62-68. Into the Blue, Part One. Forest and Stream 62 (Dec): 872-883, 914. |
| 1930 | Into the Blue, Part Two - Up the Victoria Nile . Forest and Stream 63 (Jan): 4-13, 61-63, 65-67. Into the Blue, Part Three - The Great Migration. Forest and Stream 63 (Feb): 84-93. Into the Blue, Part Four - Lions! Forest and Stream 63 (Mar): 164-173, 226-227. Our Next African Safari. World's Work 59 (Mar): 47-51. Into the Blue, Part Five - The Boy Scouts. Forest and Stream 63 (Apr): 244-249, 307. Our Next African Safari. World Today 56 (June): 2-10. Country Life in Africa . Country Life 59 (Dec): 35-38, 76, 78. A Letter from Martin Johnson. World's Work 59 (Dec): 23. |
| 1931 | Little Men and Little Women. World's Work 60 (Jan): 113-115. Jungle Raids and a Determined Daughter. World's Works 60 (Feb): 39-43, 90. Lions Roar and Hippos Yawn. World's Works 60 (May): 36-41. Trailing Gorillas in African Jungles. New York Times Magazine (Aug 30): V; 6, 23. Adventures in Akeley's African Park . New York Times Magazine (Sept 6): V; 10. Matching Wits with the Jungle Beasts. New York Times Magazine (Sept 13): V; 8-9, 20. Safari, ou Quatre Ans parmi les Fauves. Les Annales Politiques et Litteraires 97 (Sept 15): 249-260. Safari, ou Quatre Ans parmi les Fauves. Les Annales Politiques et Litteraires 97 (Oct 1): 297-307. Safari, ou Quatre Ans parmi les Fauves. Les Annales Politiques et Litteraires 97 (Oct 15): 345-354. Safari, ou Quatre Ans parmi les Fauves. Les Annales Politiques et Litteraires 97 (Nov 1): 406-412. |
| 1932 | Is Your Child a Leaner or a Leader? Junior Home 13, no. 2 (Feb): 6-7, 45. The Mightiest of Apes and the Tiniest of Men. Literary Digest 112 (Feb 27): 36, 40. How Human are Gorillas? (1931-1932) |
| 1933 | Sky Trails in Africa . Natural History 33 (Mar): 131-138. |
| 1934 | Wings Over Africa . Natural History 34 (Nov): 596-611. |
| 1936 | Camera Safaris. Natural History 37 (Jan): 46-62. |
| 1937 | In Borneo with the Martin Johnsons. Natural History 39 (Jan): 3-18. Lions I Have Photographed. Boys' Life 27 (Apr): 8-9, 30-31. Tree-Climbing Fish. Natural History 40 (Nov): 676. |