Subject Files (Polar Subjects, L - Z) in the Helene Cook Vetter Papers
| Location | Box | Folder | Folder Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 18 | "L" miscellaneous, 1905-1906, 1923, 1928, 1932, 1935, 1938-1939, 1957- 1958, 1961, 1964-1965, 1972-1973; H. Vetter's notes, re: Stanley Livingstone; "Lockende Pole," by H. H. Welle, 1972 (in german); H. Levin's notes on "A Continent for Science," by Richard S. Lewis; "The North Pole Victory," by H. Levin, 1939, with H. Vetter's notes (Note: this was written as an answer to Kiwanis Magazine, according to 1939 letter from Eileen O'Connor to Fred High; "Double Ordeal to the Pole," by Walter Lord, Stag, vol. 12 no. 3, March, 1961, pp. 30-ff; "The Untold Story of the Cook-Peary Polar Controversy," by Ted Leitzell, reprint 1965 |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 19 | Levin, Hugo, "Land of Mystery: Bradley Land," [n.d.] |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 20 | The Lie Detector (radio script), 1938 |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 21 | "Life Magazine," 1939, 1947, 1950-1951, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1969 |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 22 | "M" miscellaneous, 1913, 1921, 1925-1926, 1929, 1934-1935, 1937-1938, 1946, 1948, 1954-1956, 1959, 1964-1965, 1968, 1970-1971; notes/index by H. Vetter for "To the North," by Jeannette Mirsky, 1934; notes/index by H. Vetter for "To the Arctic," by Jeanette Mirsky, 1948; H. Vetter's notes on Polar Secrets, ed. by Leon Manley, 1968; H. Levin's notes, re: "Man's Mad Quest for the Prize that Never Was: the North Pole," by Farley Mowat, Maclean's Magazine, September 4, 1965; "Man's Mad Quest for the Prize that Never Was: the North Pole," by Farley Mowat, Maclean's Magazine, vol. 78 no. 17, September 4, 1965; "To Students of Arctic Exploration: the Geographic Position of Camp Jesup," by Thomas H. Hubbard, Hugh C. Mitchell, C. E., and Charles R. Duvall, B.S., 1913; "The Bottom of the Ocean," by Captain Johan Menander, reprinted from "The Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia," vol. 25 no. 2, April, 1927 |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 23 | MacMillan, Donald B. and Miriam, 1917, 1920, 1925, 1934, 1951, 1953, 1955-1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964-1967, 1969-1970, 1974; note: MacMillan was on Peary's 1909 expedition to the North Pole; H. Levin's notes; 1965 correspondence between H. Vetter, Louis Sherwin, D. MacMillan, R. Gibbons, and D. Rose, re: proclamation of 'Dr. Frederick A. Cook Centennial Day'; H. Vetter's notes, re: "Arctic Odyssey : the Life of Rear Admiral Donald B. MacMillan," by Everett S. Allen, 1962; H. Vetter's notes, re: "How Peary Reached the Pole," by D. B. MacMillan, 1934; "The MacMillan Arctic Expedition Returns" by Donald B. MacMillan, National Geographic Magazine, Nov. 1925; "To Seek the Unknown in the Arctic ," National Geographic Magazine, June 1925, Vol. XLVII, No. Six; "The 'Bowdoin' in North Greenland," by Donald B. MacMillan, National Geographic Magazine, June 1925, Vol. XLVII, No. Six; "Peary as a Leader" by Donald B. MacMillan, National Geographic Magazine, vol. 37 no. 4, April, 1920, 2 copies, one with notes of route on map on page 297, notes made by ?; "Why Go North," by D. B. MacMillan, American Mercury, February, 1935; Book jacket from MacMillan's book, "How Peary Reached the Pole;" typed notes on MacMillan's book, by ?; handwritten notes with shorthand, by Lillian Kiel ?; 1934 letter from Lillian Kiel (?) to Fred High, re: MacMillan's book |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 24 | Marvin, Ross - 1916, 1953-1954, 1974; Shea's manuscript; Correspondence; "Ross Marvin's Death and the Eskimo Stories: A Theory" by Hugo Levin; "Ross Gilmore Marvin: A Tragedy in the Arctic" by James Vinton Stowell; Chapter 24 "Arctic Murder" from Wide Margins by George Palmer Putnam; "Ice Floes and Flaming Water" by Peter Freuchen; "The Confession of the Murder of Prof. Marvin," analyzed by Thomas F. Hall |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 25 | MD, 1948, 1958-1969; "Physician Explorer," MD Pacific, May, 1969, pp. 69-71; "Physician Explorer : Dr. Frederick Albert Cook in the Antarctic," MD Medical News Magazine, vol. 2 no. 7, July, 1958, pp. 127-129; miscellaneous correspondence between H. Vetter and the above to magazines |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 26 | Meighen Island, 1935, 1961, 1964-1965, 1968, [n.d.]; folded map of Meighen Ice Cap, 1965; folded map of Meighen Island N 1/2 , 1965; folded map of Meighen Island S 1/2, 1965; "Examination of Metal Relics Found on Meighen Island, N.W.T.," by J. J. Sebisty, D.E. Parsons, K.C. Arnold, July 10, 1964 (2 numbered copies, 5 and 22); "Different Methods of Calculating Mean Daily Temperatures," by K.C. Arnold and D.K. MacKay, GR 8-64, offset reprint from Geographical Bulletin, no. 21, 1964, pp. 123-129; "Access to Meighen Island, NWT," reprinted from Arctic, vol. 18 no. 3, September, 1965; "Aspects of the Glaciology of Meighen Island, Northwest Territories, Canada," by K.C. Arnold, reprinted from Journal of Glaciology, vol. 5 no. 40, February, 1965; "Hvem oppdaget Meighen-oya?," by K.C. Arnold, Polarboken, 1963-1964, Oslo, 1964 (Norwegian); "Who Discovered Meighen Island?" by K. C. Arnold (translation of "Hvem oppdaget Meighen-oya?"); "Additional Notes on the Problem of Meighen Island," by John Euller, [n.d.]; "Dr. Cook: An American Dreyfus in the Arctic?" by R.W. Gibbons, North, vol. 25, no. 2, March-April, 1968; 1965 letter from T. Leitzell to H. Vetter, re: Meighen Island; 1935 letter from T. Leitzell to Dr. Cook, re: Meighen Island; "Meighen Island: Arctic Archipelago," by H. Vetter, December, 1961; "The Problem with Meighan Island" 1939; "The History and Geology of Meighan Island, Arctic Archipelago," Geological Survey of Canada, R. Thorsteinsson |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 27 | Miller, Floyd, 1962, 1964; H. Levin's notes, re: Ahdoolo, Miller's book, which is a biography of Matthew A. Henson; H. Vetter's notes on Miller; correspondence between H. Vetter and Miller |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 28 | Mowat, Farley, "The Polar Passion," reviews and clippings, 1967-1968 |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 29 | "N" miscellaneous, 1896, 1930, 1934, 1940, 1947, 1951, 1953-1955, 1957-1958, 1960, 1973; "Nautilus 90 North," by Comm. William F Anderson, U.S.N., 1959; H. Vetter's notes |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 30 | New York Times, 1901-1902, 1909, 1913-1953, 1955, 1958-1960, 1966, 1972; New York Times Index, by H. Vetter, by year, 1913-1953, 1958- 1960; by A. Freeman, 1901-1902, 1913-1926; correspondence between H. Vetter and NYT; H. Levin's notes, re: NYT |
| 139-129-5 | 21 | 31 | "O" miscellaneous, 1909-1910, 1930, 1936, 1942, 1962, [n.d.] |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 1 | "P" miscellaneous, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1965, 1972, [nd]; "Frederick A. Cook," by Joe Purcell, Upper Delaware Drummer, 1965, pp. 1-ff; "A Visit to the Living Ice Age" by Rutherford Platt, National Geographic Magazine, April 1957; Polar Times, June 1955 Page 30 has obituary on Matt Henson, Frank Stokes, who was an artist on Peary expedition, and Ootah, an Eskimo who was on 1909 Peary expedition to N. Pole; "The Secret of the Vanished Explorer," by Morton M. Hunt, Saturday Evening Post, June 9, 1951, pp. 40-ff Article is about Frederick Pohl; book jacket for "Life on an Ice Floe," by Ivan Papanin |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 2 | Peary, Robert Edwin, 1962-1965, 1968-1969, 1974, 1976, [n.d.]; H. Levin's notes; H. Vetter's notes; handwritten notes by Frederick A. Stokes, on T"he North Pole" by Robert E Peary, 2nd edition, 1910 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 3 | Peary, Robert Edwin, 1909, 1912-1913, 1920, 1926, 1935, 1939, 1948- 1949, 1952-1957, 1959; H. Vetter's notes; 1940 letter to Dr. Cook from George Peppy, an engineer on the Peary ship Windward, 1900-1901; "Peary Flag Comes to Rest," by Marie Peary Stafford, National Geographic Magazine, Vol. CVI, No. 4, October 1954 - with annotations by Helene Cook Vetter; H. Levin's notes; "Peary as a Leader," by Donald B. MacMillan, National Geographic Magazine, vol. 37 no. 4, April, 1920, pp. 293-318; "Peary's Explorations in the Far North," by Gilbert Grosvenor, National Geographic Magazine, vol. 37 no. 4, April, 1920, pp. 319- 322; "The National Geographic Society's Notable Year," National Geographic Magazine, vol. 37 no. 4, April, 1920, pp. 338-342; "The National Geographic Society's Memorial to Peary" National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, June 1922; "How Peary Reached the North Pole," by Robert E Peary, [1910]; "The Peary Expedition," The Chautauquan, vol. 16, Oct 1892- March 1893, pp. 221-223; "We Followed Peary to the Pole," National Geographic Magazine, Vol. CIV, no. 4, October 1953; "Gold Medal Awarded to Mrs Robert E Peary" National Geographic Magazine, Jan. 1956; "My Wonderful Christmas Tree," by Marie Ahnighto Peary, Holiday, vol. 14 no. 6, December, 1953, pp. 6-; "The Struggle for the South Pole," by R.E. Peary, The World's Work, May, 1912, pp. 113-116; "Discovery of the Pole : Peary's Own Pictures of His Greatest Exploit," Life, vol. 30 no. 20, May 14, 1951, pp. 77-80 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 4 | Peary, Robert Edwin, Miscellaneous Legal, 1911, 1953-1956, 1963, 1970; Peary's will; other correspondence, re: Peary's death, and location of his remains, records of his naval service; 1911 affidavit, re: Peary and his "concubine;" records of his naval compensation, October 1881-March 1911; service record of R. E. Peary compiled by Russell W. Gibbons, April, 1956; "History of USS Peary (DD 226)," compiled by Russell W. Gibbons, March, 1953; legal document, "Distribution Account in the Estate of Robert E. Peary," 1920 (1954 copy) |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 5 | "Peary's Race for the North Pole," 1973 TV documentary, 1973-1974, 1976; clippings, re: the show and also clips, re: Wolper organization (the producers); correspondence between H. Vetter and others with CBS, Wolper Productions, re: the show; 1973 Avon ad for the "Marine Binoculars Decanter," which commemorates Peary |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 6 | Plaisted Polar Expedition(s), 1968-1969, 1972; note: Ralph Plaisted led two snowmobile expeditions to the North Pole, in 1967 and 1968; excerpts from "To the Top of the World," by Charles Kuralt, [n.d.], with notes by H. Levin |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 7 | Polar Who's Who, compiled by Helene Cook Vetter, [n.d.] |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 8 | Pole: Foreign Comment, 1909; clippings from non-American newspapers, many in English |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 9 | "Q" miscellaneous, 1912, 1937 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 10 | "R" miscellaneous, 1910, 1924-1926, 1926, 1933, 1935, 1953-1954, 1957, 1960, 1966; H. Levin's notes; "Bagging Arctic Monsters with Rope, Gun, and Camera," by Paul J. Rainey, Cosmopolitan Magazine, vol. 50, December 1910-May, 1911; "Ice Islands in the Arctic," by Kaare Rodahl, Scientific American, vol. 191, no. 6, December, 1954, pp. 40-45; Knud Rasmussen's Arctic Odyssey," 1925; H. Vetter's notes, re: "Greenland - by the Polar Sea," by Knud Rasmussen; H. Vetter's and H. Levin's notes, re: "Dark Companion" by Bradley Robinson |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 11 | "Race for the Pole," by John E. Weems, 1960, 1967; H. Levin's extensive notes, re: the book; miscellaneous correspondence, re: the book |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 12 | Rawlins, Dennis, 1973-1974; Levin's notes on Rawlins's book, "Peary at the North Pole: Fact or Fiction?;" Clippings; "Reply to Dennis Rawlins," by Hugh Eames |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 13 | Rost, Ernest C., 1914, 1956; "Mount McKinley: Its Bearing on the Polar Controversy," by Rost, 1914, with H. Vetter's notes |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 14 | "S" miscellaneous, 1909, 1912, 1914-1916, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1954, 1957-1959, 1965-1966, 1970-1975; H. Levin's notes; "North Toward the Pole on Skis," by Bjorn O. Staib, National Geographic, vol. 127 no. 2, February, 1965, pp. 254-ff; "A History of Polar Exploration and Adventure," by Helen Putnam van Sicklen, Little Blue Book, no. 580, 1924, with index by H. Vetter, inside back cover; "Science World," vol. 9 no. 8, January 6, 1965, Special Issue on the Arctic; "Magnetic Variation around the North Pole," by Thomas C. Stowell, Sunday Magazine, 1912; "Enemies of the Republic," by Lincoln Steffens, no publication information given; "The Polar Eskimos and the Polar Expeditions," by H.P. Steensby, 1909 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 15 | Script - Movie, [n.d.], by Willard Newell and Clarence McElroy |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 16 | Stafford, Edward Peary and Marie Peary Stafford, 1953-1954, 1964, 1966-1967 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 17 | Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1916, 1936, 1940, 1951, 1953-1954, 1958, 1960-1962, 1964, 1967, 1972; H. Levin's notes, re: "Solving the Problems of the Arctic," by Stefansson, 1919, and other notes, re: "Stef"; H. Vetter's notes, re: "Discovery: the Autobiography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson," 1964; H. Vetter's general notes on Stef; Wendell Phillips Dodge's review of "Discovery: the Autobiography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson," 1964; "Old Viking on the New Frontier," by Norman Carlisle (about Stef), True, vol. 42, December, 1961, pp. 18-ff; "We Found the North Pole," edited by V. Stefansson, Stag, vol. 4 no. 10, October, 1953, pp. 83-98; 1940 letter to Dr. Cook from ?, re: Stef's book, "Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic," 1939; Pages from Stefansson diary - January-November, 1916, pp. 147-205 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 18 | "T" miscellaneous, 1910, 1916, 1927, 1936, 1939-1940, 1950, 1953-1959, 1965-1966, 1973; Tribune Index, 1896-1906; "The Great Polar Feud - Who Won?" by Rear Adm. Charles W. Thomas, "The Retired Officer," February, 1973; excerpt from Lowell Thomas's broadcast, August 5, 1940; "First at the Pole," by Lowell Thomas, "This Week, New York Herald Tribune," April 2, 1939; other articles authored by Lowell Thomas; H. Levin's notes on Lowell Thomas's "The Untold Story of Exploration," 1935; "Scientists Ride Ice Islands on Arctic Odysseys," by Lowell Thomas, Jr., National Geographic Magazine, vol. 128 no. 5, November, 1965, pp. 670-691; H. Levin's notes on Lowell Thomas's "Book of the High Mountains," 1964; H. Levin's notes on Professor Griffith Taylor's article(s); unsure of title(s), due to fading of copies; "Our Polar Islands - the Queen Elizabeths," by Andrew Taylor, Canadian Geographical Journal, vol. 52 no. 6, June, 1956, pp. 233-ff; "Dr. Frederick A. Cook (1907-1909)," by Andrew Taylor, 1955; "Health of a Carnivorous Race: a study of the Eskimo," by William A. Thomas, M.D., 1927 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 19 | "U" miscellaneous, [n.d.]; original folder empty |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 20 | U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings; "Peary and the North Pole : Not the Shadow of a Doubt," by Comm Edward Peary Stafford (grandson), December, 1971; "Peary and the North Pole : the Lingering Doubt," by Dennis Rawlins, June, 1970; H. Levin's notes on the Stafford and Rawlins articles; H. Vetters manuscript, "The Polar Controversy : What Really Happened," August, 1972, with H. Levin's notes |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 21 | "V" miscellaneous, 1924, 1948, 1956, 1964; A History of Polar Exploration and Adventure, by Helen Putnam van Sicklen, Little Blue Book, no. 580, 1924; "The American Eagle Has Spread Its Wings of Glory over the World's Top," 1964, [blue pamphlet by H. Vetter] |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 22 | "W" miscellaneous, 1900, 1907, 1909, 1916-1917, 1926, 1928, 1936, 1938-1939, 1955-1957, 1961-1962, 1965, 1968, 1975; Who's Who in America, 1916-1917 (selected pages); "No Foxes Seen, A Log of Arctic Flying Adventures," by Captain Sir George Wilkins, World's Work, August, 1928; excerpts from The Whitneys : an Informal Portraight 1635-1975, by Edwin P. Hoyt, 1976; "Under the Ice to the North Pole," by Dick Halvorsen, Man's Life, vol. 3 no. 5, September, 1955; "Weather from the White North" by Andrew H Brown, National Geographic Magazine, April 1955; "Misundertood Male of the Month : Sir Hubert Wilkins," by Earl P. Hanson, For Men, vol. 2 no. 5, September, 1938; "Our Search for the Lost Aviators," by Sir Hubert Wilkins, National Geographic Magazine, vol. 74 no. 2, August, 1938; "With Arctic Highlanders," by Walter A Wycoff, Scribner's Magazine, vol. 28 no.3, September, 1900; "With Arctic Highlanders, part II" by Walter A. Wycoff, Scribner's Magazine, vol. 28 no. 4, October, 1900 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 23 | Wallace, Mene (also called Minik, Menie, or Meenie), 1908-1910, 1916, 1918, 1953, 1969, 1971, 1977; note: he was an Eskimo brought to the U.S. by Peary in 1900 for exhibition purposes; correspondence between H. Vetter and R. Gilberg of the Danish Museum, re: his research on Mene, and his plans to write a book about him; photocopy of 1909 letter to Dr. Cook from Mene; photocopy of 1908 letter signed by Peary to William Wallce, which states his ship is too full to take Mene to see his people (the Eskimos); H. Levin's notes; Excerpt from Bankers, Bones and Beetles, by Geoffrey Hellman |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 24 | Wright, G. Theon, The Big Nail, 1969, 1970; clippings; H. Vetter's notes; Reviews |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 25 | "Y" miscellaneous, 1955 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 26 | "Z" miscellaneous, 1956 |
| 139-129-6 | 22 | 27 | Zavatti, Silvio, 1956-1960, 1964-1965, 1970; "Chi Raggiunse per Primo il Polo Nord?" by Silvio Zavatti, Estrato da L'Universo, Rivista bimestrale dell'Istituto Geografico Militare, vol. 37 no. 6, 1957 (2 copies); translation of "Chi Raggiunse per Primo il Polo Nord?" by Silvio Zavatti, Estrato da L'Universo, Rivista bimestrale dell'Istituto Geografico Militare, vol. 37 no. 6, 1957 In english, "Who Reached First the North Pole?" by Silvio Zavatti, Extract from L'Universo, Bimonthly Review of the Military Geographic Institute, vol. 37 no. 6, 1957 (2 copies); other writings by Zavatti on Cook versus Peary, in Italian, some with English translations |
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