Edward Guild Wyckoff papers, 1899-1910.

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Edward Guild Wyckoff papers, 1899-1910.

Include correspondence of Edward Guild Wyckoff with Robert E. Peary regarding Peary's Arctic explorations; with Frederic A. Cook regarding a proposed American expedition to climb Mount McKinley; and with the Arctic and Peary Arctic Clubs; also photographs, pamphlets, and miscellanea concerning Arctic explorers and exploration.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7905097

Cornell University Library

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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...

Arctic Club.

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Wyckoff, Edward Guild, 1867-1924.

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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...

Peary Arctic Club

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