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Cook34_1d Caption: Frederick A. Cook, 1909.

Early Years

Polar Acc #200514 Box 2 Folder 25 Caption: Welcome sign for Hortonville, NY.
Cook34_34aa Caption: Robert E. Peary, ca 1909.

Expeditions

North Greenland
Cook34_11p Caption: Natives of Greenland, ca. 1883.
Cook34_12a Caption: Cook 34_12a.

Belgian Antarctic
Cook34_5c Caption: Cook, at left, with Roald Amundsen, ca. 1898.
Cook34_7e Caption: Belgica, ice locked in the Bellinghausen Sea, 1898.
Cook34_7a Caption: “Cutting a canal to release the Belgica.”

Erik Relief
Cook34_34z Caption: Robert E. Peary, ca. 1909.
Cook34_8a Caption: Peary, left, with wife, Josephine and Professor Limond Stone, 1901.

Mt. McKinley
Cook34_13ee Caption: From left: Robert Dunn, Ralph Shainwald, Marie Cook, Dr. Cook, and Fred Printz, 1903.
Cook34_18b Caption: Members of the expedition party, including Mrs. Cook.
Cook34_13ff Caption: Sitka, Alaska, 1903.

Return to Mt. McKinley
Cook34_16eee Caption: Dr. Cook’s boat, the Bolshoy, 1906.
Cook34_16bb Caption: Dr. Cook, 1906.
Cook34_15j Caption: “An Ampitheater – a typical gathering basin of the Mt. McKinley glaciers, 1906.” Caption by Dr. Cook.

Aftermath
Frederick A. Cook Society Collection: Box 10, folder 26 Caption: Book jacket from Cook’s written account of his 1903 and 1906 expeditions to Mt. McKinley.
Cook34_33d Caption: At center, John R. Bradley, financier of Cook’s 1909 North Pole Expedition, 1907.

North Pole
Cook34_33b Caption: The schooner John R. Bradley, named for the sponsor of Cook’s North Pole Expedition, ca. 1908.
Cook34_31i Caption: Dr. Cook’s Eskimo helpers manhauling the sled.
Cook34_31q Caption: Dr. Cook was hailed as a hero upon announcing his discovery of the North Pole.

Controversy

Cook34_29 Caption: The uncropped version of Dr. Cook’s Mt. McKinley summit image, commonly called “fake peak.”
Cook34_32e Caption: Dinner of the Royal Geographic Society at the Hotel Phoenix, Copenhagen, 1909. Dr. Cook is at center, wreathed in flowers.
Cook21_13d Caption: Frederick A Cook Society Collection: Box 21 Folder 13.
Cook9_50 Caption: “A Pictorial Record of the Most Important and Sensational Geographical Discovery of Recent Times.” Published in 1909 by L.H. Nelson Company, Portland, ME. Frederick A. Cook Society Collection: Box 9 Folder 50.

Afterward

OVS1_3_1 Caption: For only a dollar, one could purchase a record by Dr. Cook, desribing how he reached the North Pole. Original Advertisement, Frederick A. Cook Society Collection: Box OVS1 Folder 3.
OVS1_3_2 Caption: Original advertising poster for Dr. Cook’s book, My Attainment of the Pole. Frederick A. Cook Society Collection: Box OVS1 Folder 3.
Cook23_9 Caption: Frederick A. Cook Society Collection: Box 23 Folder 9.
Cook23_9 Caption: Dr. Cook was pardoned by President Roosevelt shortly before his death in 1940. Frederick A. Cook Society Collection: Box 10 Folder 12.