Papers, 1930-1968.

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Papers, 1930-1968.

Correspondence, diaries, unpublished articles, scrapbooks. Correspondents include Julius F. Stone, and Amos Burg, explorer for the National Geographic Society. Diaries concern river trips on Yampa, Yellowstone, Missippi, and Missouri Rivers. There are also notes made on acclimatization in the Antarctic and tests of military antiexposure suits. One scrapbook documents Admiral R. E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition in 1939. Photographs removed and filed in a C collection of the same number.

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Byrd, Richard Evelyn Jr., 1888-1957

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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed that his ex...

Frazier, Russell G., 1893-1968.

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Physician, explorer. From the description of Papers, 1930-1968. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 79982741 ...