Photographs Relating to Antarctic Expeditions and Commemorative Events, 1926 - 1970

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Photographs Relating to Antarctic Expeditions and Commemorative Events, 1926 - 1970

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SNAC Resource ID: 11612650

National Archives at College Park

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Baffin Island Expedition (1927)

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The Baffin Island Expedition (also known as the Putnum Expedition and the Morrissey Expedition) departed Rye, New York, in June 1927, and returned in early October 1927. Captain Robert "Bob" Bartlett piloted the Schooner Effie M. Morrissey, under the direction of George Palmer Putnam. Also on the expedition were Professor Laurence M. Gould, geographer and topographer; Donald M. Cadzow of the American Indian Museum; Robert E. Peary, Jr.; Maurice Kellerman, film maker; Peter Heinbecker, physician;...

Gould, Laurence McKinley, 1896-1995

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Laurence (Larry) McKinley Gould was born in Michigan in 1896. He studied law and geology at the University of Michigan before serving in Italy and France with the US Army Ambulance Service during the First World War. After the war, he resumed his geological studies at the University of Michigan, receiving his doctorate in 1923. In 1926, he was a member of the University of Michigan's expedition to Greenland under Professor W.H. Hobbs and the following year, he joined George Palmer Putnam in expl...