Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary Papers. 1798 - 1976. Published Materials Relating to Science and Engineering

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Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary Papers. 1798 - 1976. Published Materials Relating to Science and Engineering

1844-1939

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This series consists of published materials relating to science and engineering collected and maintained by Robert E. Peary. Included are reports, joint resolutions, brochures, articles, maps, newspaper clippings, notes, and other writings pertaining to interoceanic issues, including the Nicaragua Canal Survey and Panama Canal. Titles include “Nicaragua; its People, Scenery, Monuments, Resources, Condition, and Proposed Canal; with One Hundred Original Maps and Illustrations” by E. G. Squier (1860); “Reports of Explorations and Surveys for the Location of a Ship-Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, through Nicaragua, 1872-73” (1874); “Reports of Explorations and Surveys for the Location of Interoceanic Ship-Canals through the Isthmus of Panama, and the Valley of the River Napipi, by U. S. Naval Expeditions, 1875” (1879); “Monroe Doctrine and Control of Isthmus Canal” by W. H. Webb (1881);“The Panama Canal: Its History, its Political Aspects, and Financial Difficulties” by J. C. Rodrigues (1885); and “Special Intelligence Report on the Progress of the Work on the Panama Canal during the Year 1885” by W. W. Kimball (1886). There are also newspaper clippings relating to various scientific and contemporary issues.

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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, 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...

Peary, Mary W.

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