Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1893- Boston: Fluttering Flags
Peary made an effort to stop in major
cities like Boston and New York. Be because he did this, he gained a lot
of popular interest. He was rewarded by crowds of enthusiastic supporters,
like this 1908 New York group.
“Fifty hours later [from New York], with spring and bow and stern lines taut, the Falcon was hugging historic Constitution Wharf in Boston, the fluttering flags at her tops glowing in the last rays of the setting 4th-of-July sun.” - Robert E. Peary, Northward over the Great Ice, published in 1898
Popular Interest in Peary's Voyages
"Crowd at departure of S.S. Roosevelt, July 6, 1908" July 6, 1908, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
