Internation Polar Expedition to Pt. Barrow Records 1881-1888

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Internation Polar Expedition to Pt. Barrow Records 1881-1888

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This artificial collection is composed of several groups of items generated from the expedition to Pt. Barrow during the first International Polar Year from 1881-1884. The materials come from three different sources and from three subgroups: I. The personal journals of Sgt. Middleton Smith, a member of the expedition, II. a manuscript of the report written by John Murdoch containing his observations of the Inupiat people in the region, and III. photographs of the Inupiat community as well as of the U.S. Signal Corps buildings and people at Pt. Barrow.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Polar Regions Collections & Archives

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Smith, Middleton

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Murdoch, John

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Epithet: RC Bishop of Castabala; Vicar-Apostolic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0001a2 Epithet: Provost of Glasgow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0001a1 ...

International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska 1881 - 1883

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The International Polar Expedition was sponsored by the U.S. Signal Corps and the Smithsonian Institution to establish a permanent station for meteorological, magnetic, tidal, and pendulum observation. It was under the command of First Lieutenant P. H. Ray, US Army. The excursion set sail from San Francisco on July 18, 1881 and returned October 7, 1883. The group reached Point Barrow, the northernmost point of the United States, and established a base 15 kilometers southwest of the point. The ex...

Ray, P. H. (Patrick Henry)

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International Polar Expedition to Pt. Barrow, Alaska

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The International Polar Year was the inspiration of Austrian explorer and naval officer Lt. Karl Weyprecht as a vehicle for international collaboration in polar science and exploration. The first polar year occured in 1882-1883; eleven countries participated and established fourteen research stations for the purpose of investigating the meteorology and earth magnetic field at high latitudes. The United States used the first IPY to establish a research station at its northernmost poi...

Murdoch, John, 1852-1925

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John Murdoch (1852-1925) was trained as a zoologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He went on to spend a year as a professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin beginning in 1880. From 1881-1883, he served as naturalist on part of the Polar Expedition to Point Barrow Alaska. Later, he became a librarian at the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1892). In 1896, he began working as an assistant cataloger at the Boston Public Library, a post which he kept until 1923. ...

Ray, P. H. (Patrick Henry), 1842-1911

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