Title taken from back of stereograph. "The story of Peary's attempts to discover the North Pole is a tale of heroism. For twenty years he struggled before he finally succeeded. He made his first trip to Greenland in 1886 when he was a young...
Title taken from caption. Group portrait of members of Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland. Peary is identified as being at the top left. George Putnam is identified as being at the lower left.
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "(Peary on the bridge.)" Robert Peary stands on the bridge of the S.S. Hope. The ship is surrounded by ice, near Cape Mercy, Labrador Sea, between the coasts of Greenland and Canada.
Title taken from caption. The 1896 Peary expedition to Greenland included an artist, Albert Operti, and the man seated is likely to be him. Expedition member’s name as identified in “A diary kept while with the Peary Arctic expedition of...
Title taken from caption. Group portrait of expedition members aboard the S. S. Hope en route to Greenland. An arrow on the album page points to the topmost man and identifies him as Peary.
Portrait of William Godley, ship's cook aboard the S.S. Hope en route to Greenland on Peary's 1896 expedition. Crewmember’s name as identified in “A diary kept while with the Peary Arctic expedition of 1896” by Benjamin Hoppin.
Shows routes of Davis, Baffin, Franklin, McClure, Collinson, Kane, Second German Expedition, Peary, Amundsen, Ericsen, Rasmussen, De Quervain, Koch, MacMillan, Steffansson, Ekblaw, Hall, Nares, Nordenskjold, DeLong, Nansen, and Duke of Abruzzi. ...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Crevasses, Itivdliarsuk glacier." View of members of Alfred Barton's party, a group that traveled with Peary to Greenland in 1896, taking measuring temperatures in crevasses on a glacier.
Title taken from caption. View of the harbor and town of Turnavik, Newfoundland, with the S.S. Hope anchored in port. En route to Greenland on Peary's 1896 expedition.
Title taken from caption. (The governor is identified as Knudsen by Benjamin Hoppin in “A diary kept while with the Peary Arctic expedition of 1896.") Location probably Upernavik, Greenland.
Title taken from caption. Group portrait of six men aboard the S. S. Hope, including Professor Alfred E. Burton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology en route to Greenland on Peary's 1896 expedition.
Title taken from caption. (The governor is identified as Knudsen by Benjamin Hoppin in "A diary kept while with the Peary Arctic expedition of 1896." Location probably Upernavik, Greenland.)