Scrapbooks of articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, etc., principally on polar and sub-polar countries, regions, peoples and subjects published mainly between 1885 and 1929, as well as the literature on polar exploration and explorers for the same period. 1885-1929.
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Greely, Adolphus Washington, 1844-1935
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Adolphus Washington Greely (b. March 27, 1844, Newburyport, Massachusetts-d. October 20, 1935, Washington, D.C.) served throughout the American Civil War and remained in the army at the war's close. In 1881 he was appointed to lead the United States International Polar Year Expedition, 1881-1884 to Ellesmere Island. He retired from the Army in 1908 and died in Washington in 1935. ...