International Polar Expedition to Pt. Barrow, 1881-1888

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International Polar Expedition to Pt. Barrow, 1881-1888

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This artificial collection is composed of several groups of items generated from the expedition to Pt. Barrow during the first International Polar Year from 1881-1884. The materials come from three different sources and form three subgroups: I. The personal journals of Sgt. Middleton Smith, a member of the expedition, II. a manuscript of the report written by John Murdoch containing his observations of the Inupiat people in the region, and III. photographs of the Inupiat community as well as of the U.S. Signal Corps buildings and people at Pt. Barrow.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Murdoch, John, 1852-1925

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John Murdoch (1852-1925) was trained as a zoologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He went on to spend a year as a professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin beginning in 1880. From 1881-1883, he served as naturalist on part of the Polar Expedition to Point Barrow Alaska. Later, he became a librarian at the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1892). In 1896, he began working as an assistant cataloger at the Boston Public Library, a post which he kept until 1923. ...

Smith, Middleton.

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International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska 1881 - 1883

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The International Polar Expedition was sponsored by the U.S. Signal Corps and the Smithsonian Institution to establish a permanent station for meteorological, magnetic, tidal, and pendulum observation. It was under the command of First Lieutenant P. H. Ray, US Army. The excursion set sail from San Francisco on July 18, 1881 and returned October 7, 1883. The group reached Point Barrow, the northernmost point of the United States, and established a base 15 kilometers southwest of the point. The ex...

Ray, P. H. (Patrick Henry), 1842-1911

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