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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

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

Frederick A. Cook Society Collection, 1891-1996

Title: 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, and subsequent pardon. Includes maps, particularly of the Polar regions and Mount McKinley. The collection is also designated as Record Group 56.17 and as Byrd Polar Research Center Miscellaneous Series M-400

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCoUBP0003 View

Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940. Papers, 1881-1977 (bulk 1891-1940).

Title: Papers, 1881-1977 (bulk 1891-1940).

Correspondence, mss., tss., and printed copies of books and essays, diaries, financial and legal papers, genealogical notes, certificates, maps, printed materials, and other papers, relating chiefly 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 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. Includes papers (1910-1977) of Cook's daughter, Helen Cook Vetter, chiefly relating to her efforts to validate Cook's claim. Also includes papers relating to Cook's trial and conviction for mail fraud and papers from his subsequent incarceration in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, primarily his memoirs and writings for the prison newspaper, Leavenworth new era, on topics such as exploration of the polar regions; ethnography of Africa, Greenland, and Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego; medical theories on diet and nutrition and the physiological effect of cold; treatment of drug abuse; and prison reform. Correspondents include Roald Amundsen, James Gordon Bennett, J.E. Bernier, Stanley Boriss, Buffalo Bill, Cyril Clemens, Marie Fidell Hunt Cook, Samuel J. Entrikin, Anthony Fiala, Rudolph Franke, Alfred S. Franklin, Andrew A. Freeman, John W. Goodsell, Ruth Hunt Cook Hamilton, T. Everett Harré, J. Gordon Hayes, Lilian E. Kiel, Hugo Levin, Milton M. Lory, William E. Mears, Adah Murphy, Eugene A. Murphy, Russell T. Neville, Otto Nordenskjöld, Ben L. Reitman, S.M. Riss, Ernest Christian Rost, John W. Ruskin, Winfield Scott Schley, Ralph Shainwald-von Ahlefeldt, William E. Shea, F.P. Thompson, Henry Wellington Wack, and Harry Whitney.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31816495 View