In 1909, a young American, Ross Marvin, was helping Robert Peary on his last North Pole expedition. Marvin did not survive. He supposedly fell through a crack in the sea ice and drowned. Years later, ...
In The Margins is a series that covers the history they didn’t teach in school. In 1909, the North Pole was at the center of a heated controversy: Who had made it there first, Robert Peary or ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An engraved watch that is believed to be the watch carried by Matthew Henson (1866-1955) on his exploration of the ...
A week earlier, the New York Herald had printed its own front-page headline: "The North Pole is Discovered by Dr. Frederick A. Cook." Cook, an American explorer who had seemingly returned from the ...
The 16 July 1905 departure of polar explorer Robert Peary on one of his expeditions to the North Pole aboard the specially designed ship Roosevelt.
22 cent Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson stamp art by Dennis Lyall, c. 1986 Loan from the United States Postal Service, Postmaster General's Collection This artwork adorns a postage stamp of Admiral ...
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