George Harlow Clark Papers, 1883 - 1926. Photographs Related to George H. Clark Polar Activities, 1893 - 1902.

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George Harlow Clark Papers, 1883 - 1926. Photographs Related to George H. Clark Polar Activities, 1893 - 1902.

1893-1902

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This series consists of prints, film negatives and film positives representing late 19th century and early 20th century polar expeditions, including the Glazier Labrador Expedition of 1902 and the Peary Expedition to Greenland, 1893-1894. The images consist of landscapes; posed group and individual images of the expedition members; images of camp life; and formal portraits of some of the more prominent members of the expedition with information on the studios where the portraits were taken.

5 linear inches

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National Archives at College Park

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National Archives at College Park

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Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920

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Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (born May 6, 1856, Cresson, Pennsylvania – died February 20, 1920, Washington, D.C.) was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. Though born in Pennsylvania, Peary grew up in in Portland, Maine. He went to a prominent boarding school called Loomis Chaffe. He attende...