Correspondence 1936.

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Correspondence 1936.

Stefansson letter from New York City to Arthur Carhart; signed and dated October 19, 1936.

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Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson was born on November 3, 1879 in Arnes, Manitoba, Canada. He attended the University of North Dakota from 1897-1902. He was voted the best orator in 1900, and also worked for the school newspaper. In 1930 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, only the third such degree awarded. He then transferred to the University of Iowa and graduated in 1903 with a degree from the School of Liberal Arts. He next enrolled at Harvard, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1...

Carhart, Arthur Hawthorne, 1892-

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Author, conservationist, and landscape architect. From the description of Papers of Arthur H. Carhart, 1916-1959. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233110976 In 1919, Carhart became the first landscape architect for the U.S. Forest Service. Starting in the 1930s, he worked as a free-lance writer of western adventures and books on conservation issues such as water rights, the timber industry, and wildlife management. He also wrote under the names Hart Thorne...