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Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1856 - 1920

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Robert Edwin Peary collection

 Collection
Identifier: M145
Abstract

Collection contains correspondence (1881-1957), including letters written by Peary's chief assistant, Donald MacMillan (Bowdoin 1898); notes and observations written by expedition member, Langdon Gibson (1891-1892); a published edition of Extracts from Commander Peary's Personal Diary: of his trip to the North Pole (1910).

Dates: 1855-2010, undated
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

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