Marie Peary Kuhne Papers. 1900 - 1976. General Correspondence
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Peary, Marie Ahnighito, 1893-1978
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Marie Ahnighito Peary was born in Northwest Greenland on September 12, 1893, to arctic explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and his wife, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, of Portland, Maine, and Washington, DC. Their daughter became known world-wide as the "Snow Baby," a name given to her by the Greenland natives who had never before seen a white baby. In 1909, when Marie was 16 years old, Admiral Peary became the first white man to lead a successful expedition to the North Pole. In 1917, Marie Peary...
Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955
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Josephine Cecilia Diebitsch Peary (b. May 22, 1863, near Forestville, Maryland–d. December 19, 1955, Portland, Maine) was the daughter of Hermann Henry Diebitsch and Magdalena Augusta Schmid Diebitsch. She was an American author and arctic explorer. She was the wife of famed Arctic explorer Admiral Robert Edwin Peary....
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson was born on November 3, 1879 in Arnes, Manitoba, Canada. He attended the University of North Dakota from 1897-1902. He was voted the best orator in 1900, and also worked for the school newspaper. In 1930 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, only the third such degree awarded. He then transferred to the University of Iowa and graduated in 1903 with a degree from the School of Liberal Arts. He next enrolled at Harvard, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1...
