Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary Papers. 1798 - 1976. Robert E. Peary Family Collection: Photographs Taken During Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expedition Of 1905-1906, 1905 - 1906

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Rear Adm. Robert E. Peary Papers. 1798 - 1976. Robert E. Peary Family Collection: Photographs Taken During Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expedition Of 1905-1906, 1905 - 1906

1905-1906

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/559446

This series consists of photographic prints relating to Robert E. Peary's seventh Arctic expedition of 1905-1906. The location of the area pictured in this series is unclear. Annotations on the folder transferred with the photographs indicate that they are of a "Western Trip & N. Greenland, 1905-06." The information does not, however, indicate which views, if any, were taken in North Greenland. Earlier NARA descriptions of these records on the other hand indicate that the photographs are images of Western Ellesmere Land, Canada. Most of the photographic prints show arctic landscapes and wildlife and camp scenes. Included are views of men with dog teams (XP-XPY-11-13W-1 and (XP-XPY-18-6W-1); musk oxen (XP-XPY-17-5we-1); building cairns pole (XP-XPY-32-WG-1); and completed cairns with a U.S. flags (XP-XPY-12-14W-1 and XP-XPY-18-6W-2 through 6W-4). Few of the photographs are captioned or dated.

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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...