Boyd, Louise Arner, 1887-1972
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Louise Boyd (1887-1972) was a geographer, big game hunter, patroness of the arts and leader of eight expeditions into polar regions. In 1955 she flew over the North Pole to take photographs for the American Geographical Society. She held honorary degrees from the Universities of Alaska and California and from Mills College.
From the description of Louise Arner Boyd papers, 1930-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42064930
In 1926, Boyd chartered the Norwegian sealer Hobby to take her and a group of friends to Franz Josef Land to hunt polar bear. This was Boyd's first trip to the Arctic. She would later head many scientific expeditions to the Arctic regions.
From the description of Photograph album of Louise Arner Boyd's polar bear hunting trip to the Arctic on the M.S. Hobby, 1926 [graphic]. 1926. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122563707
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Subjects:
- Ships
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Ice
- Muskox
- Natural history
- Polar bear
- Polar bear hunting
- Sami (European people)
- Scientific expeditions
- Scientists
- Sealing
- Seals (Animals)
Occupations:
- Women explorers
Places:
- Arctic regions (as recorded)
- Spitsbergen Island (Norway) (as recorded)
- Greenland (as recorded)
- Greenland (as recorded)
- Arctic Ocean (as recorded)
- Arctic Ocean (as recorded)
- Franz Josef Land (Russia) (as recorded)
- Sweden (as recorded)
- Greenland (as recorded)
- Arctic Ocean (as recorded)
