Papers, 1930-1950.

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Papers, 1930-1950.

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Correspondence, lectures, published and unpublished monographs of Earl Parker Hanson on subjects related to the Arctic and Antarctic. Includes mss. of First citizen of the hemisphere (written with Eloise McCaskill Popini) on William Henry Seward and Study report on pemmican as an emergency ration. Also includes copies of the following articles: The place of aircraft in Polar research (Airway Age, March, 1929); Cold Lake is served by airplanes : an example of how Canadian aviation opened the north (Airway Age, August, 1929), and Revolution at the Pole (Soviet Russia Today, July, 1937).

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Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

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William Henry Seward was born in Florida, Orange County, New York, on May 16, 1801. He was the son of Samuel S. Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward. He graduated from Union College in 1820, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822. In 1823, he moved to Auburn, New York, where he entered Judge Elijah Miller's law office. He married Frances Adeline Miller, Judge Miller's daughter, in 1824. Seward was interested in politics early in his career and became actively involved in the Anti-Masonic m...

Popini, Eloise McCaskill.

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Popini was a research assistant for Vilhjalmur Stefansson. She translated De mensura orbis terrae, a geographical work of 825 by the Irish monk Dicuil. She collaborated with Stefansson in researching and editing The three voyages of Martin Frobisher. From the description of Papers, 1935-1951. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237352273 ...

Hanson, Earl Parker, 1899-....

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Hanson received his B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1922. He did engineering and independent research in geography in the Atacama Desert for three years following his graduation. In 1927 he worked as an engineer in Iceland, and in 1929 he traveled in the Orinoco and Amazon Basins and in the Andes, making a scientific survey for the Carnegie Institute of Washington. In 1935 he went to Puerto Rico as a planning consultant from the National Resources Committee to the Puerto Rico Rec...