"President Roosevelt bidding Peary God Speed"
photographic postcard
POSTCARDSKawin & Co.
1909
paper
3-1/2 x 5-1/2 in.
Photographic postcard; caption on front, "No. 1, President [Theodore] Roosevelt bidding [Robert E.] Peary God/ Speed"; one of series recounting Peary and Cook expeditions to the Arctic in search of the North Pole; descriptive paragraph on back; published by Kawin & Co., Chicago, copyright 1909; decorative icicle motif border with vignettes at bottom of walrus on ice and Eskimo with harpoon and dead polar bear.
1965.727.1