Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Family Collection, 1798 - 1976. Photographs Relating to Robert Peary's Efforts to Secure the Cape York Meteorites, 1896 - 1897

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Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Family Collection, 1798 - 1976. Photographs Relating to Robert Peary's Efforts to Secure the Cape York Meteorites, 1896 - 1897

1896-1897

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18253315

This series consists of black-and-white photographic prints taken during Admiral Robert E. Peary's 1896 and 1897 summer voyages. Several photographs relating to the 1896 trip are filed in folder 16. Folder 17 contains images showing the successful retrieval of the "Ahnighito" meteorite in 1897. Included in the file is a photograph of the S.S. Hope, the vessel used by Peary during both voyages (XP-XPAB-17-3). There are no photographs, however, of either the arrival of the meteorites in New York, New York, or of their receipt by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Also, included in this series are views of Eskimo men, women, and children (XP-XPAB-3-8, XP-XPAB-3-23, and XP-XPAB-3-27). Photographs of coastal areas (XP-XPAB-3-24), wildlife, and icebergs (XP-XPAB-4-2) are also among the records. Folder 14 contains photographs of Danish communities in Greenland. There are also multiple copies of an 1897 summer tent community (XP-XPAB-6-1).

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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...