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Frederick Albert Cook Papers, 1881-1977, (bulk 1891-1940)

Title: Frederick Albert CookPapers 1881-1977 (bulk 1891-1940)

Physician, explorer, and author. Correspondence, manuscript and printed copies of books and essays, diaries, financial and legal papers, genealogical notes, certificates, maps, and other papers relating primarily to Cook's expeditions to the Arctic (1891-1892 and 1901) with Robert E. Peary and Matthew Alexander Henson, to the Antarctic with Roald Amundsen's Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897-1899), to Mt. McKinley (1906), to the North Pole (1907-1909), and around the world (1915-1916); and to the controversy surrounding Cook's claim that he discovered the North Pole.

ArchivalResource: 6000 items; 23 containers plus 2 oversize; 10 linear feet; 50 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001011 View

Vetter, Helen Cook. The Frederick A. Cook Society collection, 1891-1996.

Title: The Frederick A. Cook Society collection, 1891-1996.

The collection presents a comprehensive picture of the campaign conducted by Helene Cook Vetter and others, some under the auspices of the Cook Society, "to gain official recognition for the scientific and geographic accomplishments of Dr. Frederick A. Cook." General subjects documented in the collection include Cook's Mount McKinley expeditions (1903, 1906), his North Pole expedition (1907-1909), and his mail fraud conviction & incarceration at Leavenworth. Includes maps, particularly of the Polar regions and Mount McKinley. The collection is also designated as Record Group 56.17.

ArchivalResource: 37.5 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38160342 View

Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940. Audio materials [sound recording].

Title: Audio materials [sound recording]. [1937-1991]

Scope: Recordings, primarily defending Frederick Cook's claims to having been the discoverer of the North Pole and the first to reach the top of Mount McKinley; and, defending Cook against charges of mail fraud in the Petroleum Producers Association stock issue, for which he was tried and convicted. Also includes an excerpt of a Gabriel Heater radio program of Dec. 16, 1937, a Mary Margaret McBride radio program from 1951, and a radio program from Toms River, Nova Scotia of April 15, 1972. Voices include Frederick Albert Cook; Lilian Kiel, stenographer for Hampton's magazine; Milton M. Lory, journalist; David "Bud" Olson; Robert E. Peary, explorer; Frederick Pohl, writer; Helen Cook Vetter, Cook's daughter; and H.C. Waale. Reverse side of Gabriel Heater disc contains a statement by William Henry Griffeth describing how he invented pink lemonade.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.7 sound discs : analog ; 12 in. (acetate)1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.7 sound cassettes : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40723117 View