PEARY, Robert E. - DODGE, Arthur Malcolm (photo.).

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Album of evocative photographs taken during Peary's 1896 Greenland expedition. A visual document of Peary's fourth expedition to Arctic latitudes, compiled by one of the six Boston-area academics invited by Peary to undertake scientific research in Greenland. The well-composed photographs capture the appearance of human habitations and of icy vistas at Karajak.During the US North Greenland Expedition, 1893-5, Peary sighted and reached the Cape York Meteorite, becoming the first Western explorer to achieve this feat, and his 1896 return to Greenland was his first concerted effort to locate and remove the largest fragment. Peary, his assistants, and the Boston group, together with a team from Cornell University, travelled to Greenland onboard the steam whaler Hope. The ship was commanded by the experienced Arctic seaman Captain John Bartlett (1848-1927), who had skippered the Kite on its mission to relieve Peary in 1895. The party spent over a month in Greenland, the Bostonians splitting off from the main group at the settlement of Uummannaq on 5 August and spending the next month undertaking research on wildlife and glaciers in the vicinity. Reunited in September, the expedition returned to America in late September. Dodge (1862-1926), who was recruited while in training to become a doctor at Harvard University, described the expedition in his article "A Summer Voyage to Greenland" (The Granite Monthly, February 1898, pp. 63-71).The first photographs show the 23-man party on t

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