[Robert Edwin Peary, full-length portrait, standing on deck of ship or dock, facing left, distributing gifts to Eskimos, Greenland] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Robert Edwin Peary, full-length portrait, standing on deck of ship or dock, facing left, distributing gifts to Eskimos, Greenland], [between 1886 and 1909] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0b/0bd1b308d960-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Robert Edwin Peary, full-length portrait, standing on deck of ship or dock, facing left, distributing gifts to Eskimos, Greenland], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Robert Edwin Peary, full-length portrait, standing on deck of ship or dock, facing left, distributing gifts to Eskimos, Greenland]
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Peary stands full length, turned to the left, handing out gifts to Inuit people in Greenland, either from a ship's deck or from a dock. The scene reflects the exchanges that shaped his Arctic work. Beginning in the late 1880s, he used Greenland as a base for expeditions across the ice, and he depended on local hunters, dog drivers, and knowledge of cold-weather travel. Gifts of the kind explorers commonly offered were one part of those relationships. Peary is best known for his 1909 claim to have reached the North Pole, a claim that has been disputed ever since.
| Created / published | [between 1886 and 1909] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1880-1910.Group portraits 1880-1910.Photographic prints 1880-1910. |
| Notes | Credit: Marie Peary Stafford. |
| Subjects | Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin),--1856-1920. Eskimos--Greenland--1880-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,657 × 3,744 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221000 |
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