Passel, Charles F. Antartic Exploration Collection, 1911-2001

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Passel, Charles F. Antartic Exploration Collection, 1911-2001

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Correspondence, diaries, journals, photographic material, film, videos, creative works, scrapbooks, maps, charts, reports, minor works of art and artifacts document Charles F. Passel's participation in Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Third Antarctic Expedition, 1939-1941; as well as Passel's later interests and enterprises related to the expedition and other polar exploration.

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