Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary Papers. 1798 - 1976.Photographs Relating to the Life and Career of Robert E. Peary, ca. 1960 - ca. 1960

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Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary Papers. 1798 - 1976.Photographs Relating to the Life and Career of Robert E. Peary, ca. 1960 - ca. 1960

1960

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This series consists of black and white photographic prints relating to the life of Robert E. Peary that were assembled by his daughter Marie Peary Kuhne. They include photographs of four-year old Peary (XP-XPD-1-1). Peary's room at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (XP-XPD-9-3), and the house where Peary lived in Fryeburg, Maine (XP-XPD-10-1). Also, included is a picture of Peary in Nicaragua holding a rifle and wearing boots and a hat (XP-XPD-15-3). This image is quite similar to another view found in Collection XP, Series XPN, "Robert E. Peary Family Collection: Photographs Relating to the Nicaragua Canal Surveys," which shows Peary wearing a very wide-brim hat and holding a rifle (XP-XPN-14-10). An image of a very young Matthew Henson with Peary in Nicaragua, 1887, is found in this series (XP-XPD-16-1) as well as in Collection XP, Series XPN (XP-XPN-20-1a). The former image is a cropped view. Several images of groups of individuals are in this series, including Peary standing in front of the National Geographic Society building with Adolphus W. Greely and Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Washington, D.C., 1919 (XP-XPD-38-2).

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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...

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...

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, ...