Peary-MacMillan Museum post card

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Pejepscot History Center

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Peary-MacMillan Museum post card

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OH.1726.99.b

Description

A color photograph of postcard for the Peary-MacMillan Artic Museum. A B/W photograph of Robert E. Peary, Bowdoin Class of 1877. Robert Edwin Peary, born 6 May 1856 in Cresson, PA; died 20 Feb 1920. Washington DC. Education: Bachelor of Science, 1881; Doctorate of Science, 1894; Doctor of Law, 1910. also attended Tufts, 1913 and Univ. of Edinburgh/Scotland. Civil engineer, Fryeburg, 1877-79; U.S. Coast and Geod Survey, DC, 1879-81; Lt. in Engineer Corps, USN, 1881; Commodore, 1904; rear admiral 1909; retired 1911. In charge of Nicaragua Canal surveys 1887-88. Artic explorer 1891-1909; discovered North Pole 6 April 1909. President of the American Geographic Society, 1903-07. President International Geo. Congress, 1904. Officer of Legion of Honor (France) 1913. Overseer 1917-20. Theta Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon Sources: General Catalogue of Bowdoin College 1794-1950, p. 146 (class of 1877);

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