Marie Peary Kuhne Papers. 1900 - 1976. Published Materials Relating to the Arctic
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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....
