Papers, 1897-1930.

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Papers, 1897-1930.

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Correspondence, essays, photographs, and newspaper clippings of William Stickney; much of the material is related to Peary's 1897 expedition to Greenland, of which Stickney was a member. Collection contains articles on Arctic subjects, including Among the Greenland Eskimos (The New Voice, Jan. 1899) by Charles Schubert and The phantoms of the Poles : William Reed's arguments to prove that the earth is hollow (1906). Collection also contains an album with newspaper clippings about Arctic explorers Andrée, Greely, Nansen, and Peary and an album with newpaper clippings about Peary and his 1897 Greenland expedition. Collection also includes some photographs and a sermon written in Eskimo.

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New Hampshire Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 7488047

New Hampshire Newspaper Project

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Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930

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Epithet: Norwegian explorer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000249 Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian explorer, oceanographer, and statesman, was noted for his Arctic expedition of 1893-1896, travelling closer to the North Pole than anyone had reached and using his specially-built vessel "Fram" to demonstrate the revolutionary concept of pack-ice drift. Frederick Sydney Parry was the grandson of Arctic explo...

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. ...

Hitchcock, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1836-1919

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The Michigan Geological Survey was created by Public Act 20 of 1837. Its purpose was to conduct a geological and mineralogical survey of the state. The state legislature appointed Douglass Houghton the first state geologist (1837). In 1921, the state legislature established the Department of Conservation, and the Michigan Geological Survey became part of that department (Public Act 17 of 1921). The Department of Conservation established the Geological Survey Division circa 1947. In 1968, the dep...

Hope (Ship : 1832-1848)

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Voyages: (1) 1613/4 Surat. Master Matthew Molyneux. Gravesend 28 Feb 1614 - 15 Jun Cape - 6 Aug St Augustine's Bay - 23 Aug Moheli - 9 Sep Socotra - 15 Oct Surat 3 Mar 1615 - 17 Jun Cape - Oct 'Killybeg' Ireland - Nov Downs. (2) 1616/7 Bantam. Master Christopher Newport. Downs - Apr 1617 Cape - 15 Aug Bantam Jan 1618 - Sep Gravesend. (3) 1618/9 Bantam. Master John Bickley. Downs - 28 Oct 1619 Tiku - Batavia - served in Anglo-Dutch Fleet of Defence based in Japan 1620-1622. British Li...

Andrée, Salomon August, 1854-1897

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Operti, Albert Jaspar Ludwig (American painter, 1852-1927)

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Operti was an artist who often depicted Arctic subjects in his paintings. He was a member of Peary's expeditions to Greenland in 1896 and 1897. From the description of Correspondence, 1886-1926. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237352213 ...

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...

Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940

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Explorer, author, and businessman. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. [1937-1991] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723117 Physician and polar explor on three expeditions to North Greenland, 1891-1894; part of Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-1899. From the description of Letter from Frederick Albert Cook to S.S. McClure, Ltd., 1894 March 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 70292749 Cook claimed to have been the fir...

Schubert, Charles, 1858-1942.

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Stickney, William, 1878-1924.

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Stickney was born in Bethel, Vt., in 1878. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1900 and from Harvard Medical School in 1903. He was one of the two Dartmouth students who participated in a summer study program in Greenland with Dartmouth professor C.H. Hitchcock. The Dartmouth group studied the ice sheet that covers a large portion of Greenland. From the description of Papers, 1897-1930. (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 42927755 ...