Frederick Albert CookPapers 1881-1977 (bulk 1891-1940)

Vetter, Helen Cook

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Franke, Rudolph

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Shainwald-von Ahlefeldt, Ralph

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Murphy, Eugene A.

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Hayes, J. Gordon (James Gordon), 1877-1936

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James Gordon Hayes was a contemporary of the geographer and meteorologist Hugh Robert Mill (1861-1956) From the guide to the James Hayes collection, 1924-1935, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) J. G. Hayes, 1877-1936, was the author of several books on the Arctic and Antarctic. D. Irving-Bell helped him with the research for some of these publications. From the description of Correspondence [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat rec...

Thompson, F. P. (Frank P.)

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Levin, Hugo

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Goodsell, John W., 1873-1949

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Bernier, J. E., 1852-1934

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Boriss, Stanley

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Neville, Russell T.

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Lory, Milton M.

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Vetter, Helen Cook. Helen Cook Vetter papers. 1910-1977

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Whitney, Harry, 1873-1936

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Petroleum Producers Association

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Freeman, Andrew A., 1900-....

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Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940

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Explorer, author, and businessman. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. [1937-1991] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723117 Physician and polar explor on three expeditions to North Greenland, 1891-1894; part of Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-1899. From the description of Letter from Frederick Albert Cook to S.S. McClure, Ltd., 1894 March 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 70292749 Cook claimed to have been the fir...

United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas

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Reitman, Ben L. (Ben Lewis), 1879-1942

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Hobo, physician and anarchist, Ben Reitman (1879-1942) was an advocate for the disadvantaged in Chicago and throughout the country. Reitman left school at age ten to become a hobo. He tramped around the U.S., panhandling and riding the rails until he returned to Chicago and took a job as a laboratory boy. In 1900, he was admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Reitman started a private practice on Chicago's South Side in 1904. He continued to champion the causes of hobos and the unem...

Wack, Henry Wellington, 1869-1954

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Henry Wellington Wack was Executive Director of the Committee of One Hundred celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Newark in 1916. From the description of Henry W. Wack scrapbooks, 1915-1916. (Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library). WorldCat record id: 633374382 ...

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...

Harré, T. Everett (Thomas Everett), 1884-1948

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Riis, S. M. (Sergius Martin), 1883-

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Franklin, Alfred S.

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Clemens, Cyril, 1902-1999

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Cyril Clemens (1902- ) was editor of the Mark Twain Journal and president of an international Mark Twain society. Clemens was a native of St. Louis, Mo.; son of James R. and Katherine Boland Clemens; and a kinsman of Samuel L. Clemens. From the guide to the Cyril Clemens Papers, ., 1936-1976, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Cyril Clemens, born in St. Louis on July 14, 1902, died in Kirkwood on May 16, 1999. Distant cous...

Fiala, Anthony, 1869-1950

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Schley, Winfield Scott, 1839-1911

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United States Navy rear admiral. Served in both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. From the description of Winfield Scott Schley autographed note, 1903 Apr. 23. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 181085075 Rear Admiral Winfield Schley was born in 1839 and died in 1911. Highlights of his naval career included blockading squadron during the Civil War, the rescue of Greeley in the Arctic in 1884 and the destruction of Admiral Cervera's fleet during the Spani...

Murphy, Adah

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Franke, Rudolph

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Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928

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While on an Arctic exploration, Amundsen's ship, the Maud, was disabled by a broken propeller off the Siberian coast. He requested assistance from Captain Claude S. Cochran on the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bear. From the description of Radiograms and telegrams : between Amundsen on the disabled auxiliary schooner Maud and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bear, 1921 July 8-19. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 30352211 Amundsen was a Norwegian polar explorer. ...

Ruskin, John W.

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Shea, William E.

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Bennett, James Gordon, 1841-1918

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James Gordon Bennett Jr., (born May 10, 1841, New York City – died May 14, 1918, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France), publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), who emigrated from Scotland. He was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father. Among his many sports-related accomplishments he organized both the first polo match and the first tennis match in the United States, and he personally won the first trans-oc...

Entrikin, Samuel J., 1862-1942

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Samuel J. Entrikin was born September 26, 1862 to Thomas and Sarah Jane Cloud Entrikin in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. When his mother died around 1865, a young Entrikin was sent to live with Sarah Entrikin—his aunt and notable West Chester physician. Schooled in West Chester, Samuel was a printer by trade, yet he pursued many other interests—among them, teaching, mining, farming, and inventing. However, Entrikin is best known as one of West Chester’s famous Artic explorers. As a young man, Sam...

Hamilton, Ruth Hunt Cook

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Murphy, Eugene A.

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Cook, Marie Fidell Hunt

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Kiel, Lilian E.

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Nordenskjöld, Otto, 1869-1928

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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917

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Buffalo Bill was employed as a scout by the United States 5th Cavalry, 1868-1872. In 1869 he participated in the Battle of Summit Springs, Colorado, in which the 5th Cavalry defeated Cheyenne Indians. From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Missouri, to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, South Dakota, 1896 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162229 From the description of Letter : Saint Louis, Mo., to Joseph Witherspoon Cook, Greenwood, S.D., 1896 May 23. (Unkno...

Rost, Ernest Christian, 1867-1940

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Ernest Christian Rost, an artist, pioneer photographer, adventurer, and botanist. He was born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., son of German parents, Christian Wilhelm, an engraver of renown, and Minna Rost, an embroiderer of military insignia. Rost studied at the National Academy of Design and continued his artistic education Europe. In the late 1890's, he turned to photography, working in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Panama. In 1907, he married Etta N. Newbury. By 1918, he settled in Ca...

Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955

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Matthew Alexander Henson (b. August 8, 1866, Nanjemoy, MD, – d. March 9, 1955, The Bronx, New York) was the first African-American Arctic explorer and an associate of Robert Peary on seven voyages over a period of nearly 23 years. Henson served as a navigator and craftsman, traded with Inuit and learned their language, and was known as Peary's "first man" for these arduous travels. During the 1909 expedition to Greenland, Henson accompanied Peary in the small party, including four Inuit men, ...

Mears, William E.

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