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Greenland -- Discovery and exploration -- American

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Donald and Miriam MacMillan collection

 Collection
Identifier: M118
Abstract The papers of husband and wife Donald Baxter MacMillan (Bowdoin 1898, 1874-1970) and Miriam Look MacMillan (1905-1987), document exploration in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions from the time of Robert E. Peary’s successful North Pole expedition (1908-1909), through both World Wars, and into the modern scientific era. Materials include the MacMillans' personal and professional correspondence, log books and journals, published and unpublished writings, notebooks, scrapbooks, lecture...
Dates: 1875 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1908-1987
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

North Greenland Expedition journals

 Collection
Identifier: M194 .G537 folio
Scope and Contents

Bound ledgers containing daily entries documenting Peary's first North Greenland Expedition, including drawings and scrapbook items. Additional notes detail findings of North American birds, eggs, and nests

Dates: 1891 - 1892
Found in: George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine 04011

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