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[Matthew Henson shows President Eisenhower the location of the North Pole on a globe at the White House while his wife, Lucy Henson, watches] – Vintage Print

[Matthew Henson shows President Eisenhower the location of the North Pole on a globe at the White House while his wife, Lucy Henson, watches] — historic photograph
[Matthew Henson shows President Eisenhower the location of the North Pole on a globe at the White House while his wife, Lucy Henson, watches]. Historic photograph from the Canada collection.

(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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Few photographs capture a meeting between a president and an explorer whose achievement had long gone unrecognized, but this 1954 print does. Matthew Henson, who sailed with Robert Peary on his Arctic expeditions, points out the North Pole on a globe for President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the White House, while Henson's wife, Lucy, looks on. Henson had reached the pole with Peary's party in 1909, yet for decades he received little official credit, so the visit marked a belated public acknowledgment shortly before his death in 1955.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1954
SubjectsHenson, Matthew Alexander,--1866-1955. Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David),--1890-1969.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,661 × 3,764 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220999

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