Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Frederick Albert Cook papers, 1881-1977 |
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Span Dates | 1881-1977 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1891-1940) |
ID No. | MSS79763 |
Creator | Cook, Frederick Albert, 1865-1940 |
Extent | 6000 items |
Extent | 23 containers plus 2 oversize |
Extent | 10 linear feet |
Extent | 50 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001011 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm89079763 |
Summary | Physician, explorer, and author. Correspondence, manuscript and printed copies of books and essays, diaries, financial and legal papers, genealogical notes, certificates, maps, and other papers relating primarily to Cook's expeditions to the Arctic (1891-1892 and 1901) with Robert E. Peary and Matthew Alexander Henson, to the Antarctic with Roald Amundsen's Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897-1899), to Mt. McKinley (1906), to the North Pole (1907-1909), and around the world (1915-1916); and to the controversy surrounding Cook's claim that he discovered the North Pole. |