Amory Family Papers, 1860-1938.

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Amory Family Papers, 1860-1938.

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The Amory Family Papers contain the journals, correspondence, newsclippings, articles, photographs, and lantern slides of Copley Amory, Copley Amory Jr., and Arthur Amory, all members of the prominent Boston family. The records are from their expeditions to Greenland, Siberia, Hudson Bay, and northeastern Alaska from 1860-1915. The collection also includes correspondence of George W. DeLong, commander of the ill-fated American Arctic Expedition on the steamer Jeannette in 1879, as well as a handwritten list of "Esquimaux" vocabulary written in 1913 at Rupert's House, a Hudson Bay Company post.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Amory, Copley, Jr.

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Amory, Copley, 1890-1964

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Copley Amory (1866-1960) was a member of a family originally from Boston, Massachusetts, of whom three generations took part in expeditions to Greenland, Siberia, and Alaska between 1860 and 1915. Amory, like his father, attended Harvard University. After graduation (1888), he operated a stock and dairy farm at Walpole, New Hampshire. He rebuilt a Hudson's Bay trading post in Easter, Quebec, as a summer home. He served in the military during World War I in Cuba and Iran. In 1931, he hosted a bio...

Amory Family.

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Amory, Arthur.

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