"Peary and Sailing Master on board Steamer ROOSEVELT"

photographic postcard

POSTCARDS
Kawin & Co.
Arctic Ocean
1909
paper
5-1/2 x 3-1/2 in.

Photographic postcard, photograph of drawing; caption on front, "No. 19, Peary and Sailing Master on board Steamer 'Roosevelt'."; one of series (missing nos. 2, 3, 16, 18, 20, 24, 46) 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.


1965.727.15

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Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration
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