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Inventors & Scientists

Matthew Henson

1866 – 1955

Maryland; the Arctic

Maryland-born explorer Matthew Henson accompanied Robert Peary on seven Arctic expeditions and was with him on the April 1909 push they claimed reached the North Pole; that claim is now doubted.

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Charles Alston's WWII-era Office of War Information drawing of explorer Matthew Henson with biographical text
Credit: Charles Alston, Office of War Information, National Archives (NAID 535688), via DocsTeach. License: Public domain (U.S. government work).

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Sources

  1. Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College, "Matthew Henson" (Scholarly)
  2. BlackPast.org, "Matthew Henson (1866-1955)" (Reference)

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