Greenland : photograph albums, [1897?].

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Greenland : photograph albums, [1897?].

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Albums of 181 photographs taken by Wyckoff in Greenland while on a relief expedition to Robert E. Peary to bring food and supplies and collect scientific data, depicting views of Greenland, Eskimos, ships, walrus, icebergs, etc.

2 v. ; 27 cm.

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Wyckoff, Walter Augustus, 1865-1908

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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...