Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Family Collection, 1798 - 1976. Notebook Containing Arctic Photographs, 1896 - 1896.

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Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Family Collection, 1798 - 1976. Notebook Containing Arctic Photographs, 1896 - 1896.

1896

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This series consists of six photographic prints and a leather bound transit book entitled, "Arctic Pictures, 1896.” The photographs were originally affixed to the pages of the notebook. Three of the photographs in the series show glaciers described by Peary as a hanging glacier (XP-XPAC-1), a sea level glacier (XP-XPAC-2), and a glacier with terminal moraine (XP-XPAC-3). There are also photographs of a group of Eskimo women reading (XP-XPAC-4) and a group portrait of five Danish Eskimo women (XP-XPAC-5). The photographs were taken during Peary's unsuccessful first attempt to retrieve the largest of the Cape York Meteorites.

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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...