Peary on the main deck of steamship Roosevelt"" – Vintage Print
(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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of Peary on the main deck of steamship Roosevelt"". It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Peary on the main deck of steamship Roosevelt""
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Robert E. Peary is pictured on the main deck of the steamship Roosevelt, a ship built for his Arctic voyages and named for President Theodore Roosevelt, who supported the expeditions. The photograph dates to about 1909, the year Peary announced he had reached the North Pole, a claim other researchers later disputed. The print carries a copyright notice for the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its large output of American views in this period. Its ordinary deck setting makes a quiet contrast with the polar race it belonged to.
| Created / published | c1909. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | J131602 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by DP & Co. |
| Subjects | Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin),--1856-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,761 × 4,672 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221002 |
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