Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary Papers. 1798 - 1976. Robert E. Peary Family Collection: Photographs of Peary's 1893-1895 Arctic Expeditions, ca. 1893 - ca. 1895

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Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary Papers. 1798 - 1976. Robert E. Peary Family Collection: Photographs of Peary's 1893-1895 Arctic Expeditions, ca. 1893 - ca. 1895

1893-1895

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The albumen prints of this series were taken during Robert E. Peary's Greenland expedition of 1893-1895. Perhaps the most notable event of this expedition was the birth of Peary's daughter Marie Ahnighito (XP-XPC-1893A-10-51) on September 12, 1893. The expedition party left Philadelphia on board the S.S. Falcon (XP-XPC-1893A-4-20) on June 26, 1893. En route to their final destination - Falcon Harbor, North Greenland - stops were made in Canada at St' John's Bay, Newfoundland (XP-XPC-1893B-1) and Battle Harbor, Labrador (XP-XPC-1893A-1-9), and the west Greenland ports of Holsteinsborg, Godhavn, Upernavik and Tasiassaq. A home base, "Anniversary Lodge" (XP-XPC-1893A-6-86), was built in the northeastern corner of the Falcon Harbor inlet. Over the course of the next twenty-six months, a number of splinter parties set out pursuant to Peary's objectives. The first projected return to Navy Cliff (which had been attained in the 1891-1892 expedition) set out from Anniversary Lodge on March 6, 1894. Of the original party, four members turned back early in the trek. Peary, George Clark (XP-XPC-1893E-8-4), Evelyn Briggs Baldwin (XP-XPC-1893E-8-6), Samuel Entrikin (XP-XPC-1893E-8-5) and Matthew Henson traveled 128 miles before turning back to base on April 10, 1894. After this abortive effort, Peary and Hugh Lee set out to determine the location of what the Eskimos called "Iron Mountain" (XP-XPC-1893E-11). On August 20, 1894, the Falcon arrived to retrieve the expedition party. On August 26, 1894, the ship departed but Peary, Henson and Lee remained behind to attempt a second trek north. The three departed the following spring, on April 1, 1895, and attained Navy Cliff but headed back from that point, having traveled 500 miles from Anniversary Lodge. In August 1895 the S.S. Kite returned to Independence Bay, retrieving the trio and also retrieved two of the three meteorites from "Iron Mountain" (Cape York). Original caption lists for group 1893A are filed with the records.

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Clark, George

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Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955

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Matthew Alexander Henson (b. August 8, 1866, Nanjemoy, MD, – d. March 9, 1955, The Bronx, New York) was the first African-American Arctic explorer and an associate of Robert Peary on seven voyages over a period of nearly 23 years. Henson served as a navigator and craftsman, traded with Inuit and learned their language, and was known as Peary's "first man" for these arduous travels. During the 1909 expedition to Greenland, Henson accompanied Peary in the small party, including four Inuit men, ...

Entrikin, Samuel J., 1862-1942

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Samuel J. Entrikin was born September 26, 1862 to Thomas and Sarah Jane Cloud Entrikin in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. When his mother died around 1865, a young Entrikin was sent to live with Sarah Entrikin—his aunt and notable West Chester physician. Schooled in West Chester, Samuel was a printer by trade, yet he pursued many other interests—among them, teaching, mining, farming, and inventing. However, Entrikin is best known as one of West Chester’s famous Artic explorers. As a young man, Sam...

Lee, Hugh J. (Hugh Johnson), 1871-1944

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Baldwin, Evelyn Briggs, 1862-1933

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Born in 1862 in Springfield, Missouri, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin was a meteorologist and Polar explorer who accompanied Robert E. Peary on his North Greenland expedition in 1892-1894. He also took part in the Wellman expedition to Franz Josef Land and directed the Baldwin-Ziegler polar expedition of 1901-1902. Baldwin was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and an amateur genealogist. From the guide to the Baldwin family genealogical research papers, 1872-1924, (The New York ...

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...