Frederick A. Cook Society Collection 1891-1996

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Frederick A. Cook Society Collection 1891-1996

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCoUBP0003

The collection presents a comprehensive picture of the campaign conducted by Helene Cook Vetter and others, some under the auspices of the Cook Society, "to gain official recognition for the scientific and geographic accomplishments of Dr. Frederick A. Cook." General subjects documented in the collection include Cook's Mount McKinley expeditions (1903, 1906), his North Pole expedition (1907-1909), and his mail fraud conviction & incarceration at Leavenworth, and subsequent pardon. Includes maps, particularly of the Polar regions and Mount McKinley. The collection is also designated as Record Group 56.17 and as Byrd Polar Research Center Miscellaneous Series M-400

eng,

The Ohio State University. Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6397832

Related Entities

There are 22 Entities related to this resource.

Rawlins, Dennis

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hb1c8f (person)

Vetter, Helene Cook

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6198hgr (person)

Frederick A. Cook Society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64k5gq1 (corporateBody)

Dr. Frederick A. Cook (1865-1940) is the most controversial figure in the history of polar exploration. His supporters maintain that Dr. Cook was the hero of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the first to climb Mount McKinley, the first to stand at the North Pole, and the victim of merciless and unrelenting persecution by Robert Peary and those who supported Peary's claim to have reached the pole first. Others believe that Dr. Cook faked his claims to both Mount McKinley and the Nor...

Vetter, Janet Cook

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g02kx2 (person)

Wright, Theon.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6550bww (person)

Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ng4twn (person)

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...

Euller, John

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dc06zc (person)

Smith, William G., 1943-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61w8bqp (person)

Leitzell, Ted

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63w4t3h (person)

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60c6378 (person)

Farley, Mary Allison

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt93t3 (person)

Bradley, John R., 1970-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hc4ggv (person)

Burns, Patricia

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64g712v (person)

Washburn, Bradford, 1910-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69p3tjr (person)

Explorer, scientist, and mountaineer Bradford Washburn pioneered the West Buttress route to the summit of Mount McKinley. He is the definitive cartographer of Mount McKinley and Mount Everest. From the description of Bradford and Barbara Washburn papers, 1920- (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 154128965 Bradford Washburn is an explorer, geographer, and former director of the Museum of Science in Boston. From the description of Letter, 1995. (...

Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66z00zw (person)

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...

Gonnason, Walter

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r651zk (person)

Cook, Marie Fidell Hunt

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wh3wzh (person)

Eames, Hugh

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p427j7 (person)

Levin, Hugo

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6036pcb (person)

Dr. Frederick A. Cook Society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tb8016 (corporateBody)

Texas Eagle Oil Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nd45xj (corporateBody)

Gibbons, Russell W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qn6pnz (person)

Russell W. Gibbons, of the Philip Murray Institute of Labor Studies in Pittsburgh, was director of the 1892 Homestead Strike Centennial, editor of the Pennsylvania Labor History Journal, and lecturer in the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations at Pennsylvania State University. A former communications director of the United Steelworkers of America, he is co-editor of The River Ran Red: Homestead 1892 and a contributor to Labor Conflict in America. From the description of Russe...