Josephine R. Bull Collection on Polar Exploration

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Call Number:: M137
Repository:: Bryn Mawr College
Extent:: 1 boxes
Language:: English
Date:: 1899-1932 (inclusive)
Creator:: Bryn Mawr College
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Publisher: Bryn Mawr College

Collection Inventory

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8 folders

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15 items

Archival Resource Key. Printed Drift Cask Form #2, 1899 Aug 18. 1 items.

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1 itemsRecovered June 19, 1918, Franklin Bay, Canada. Finder was David Picktogana (sp?). Form was returned by P.R. Conway, Royal Northwest Mounted Police.

Archival Resource Key. P.R. Conway to "The Geographical Society of Philadelphia Gentlemen", 1919 Sept 19. 1 items.

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1 itemsANS, New York; On the recovery of Drift Cask #2, 1918 in Franklin Bay, Canada.

Archival Resource Key. Vice President of the Philadelphia Geographical Society to Sergeant P.R. Conway, 1919 Sept 25. 1 items.

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1 itemsTL, Letter of thanks for the return of Drift Cask #2

Archival Resource Key. Clement Biddle to Henry Bryant, 1919 September 23. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Philadelphia; On Drift Cask #2

Archival Resource Key. Printed Drift Cask Form #6, 1899 Sept 13. 1 items.

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1 items Recovered June 7th, 1905, Iceland. Finder was Vigfus Benidiktoson

Archival Resource Key. Drift Cask Form #26, 1900 July 12. 1 items.

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1 itemsMs. Recovered Soro Island, November 1908. Returned by Roald Amundsen.

Archival Resource Key. Roald Amundsen to Henry Bryant, 1909 Feb 4. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS, Christiania, Norway; accompanies return of Drift Cask Form #26. Writes that the drift cask data will assist him in planning his next polar exleditions. "I am ging in through BeringSstrait in August 1910, with the Fram." (In fact, having learned that Peary had reached the North Pole in April 1909, Amundsen secretly changed his destination to the South Pole and successfully reached it in 1911.

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to Roald Amundsen, 1909 Feb 23. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Philadelphia

Archival Resource Key. Printed Drift Cask Form #35, 1900 Sept. 1 items.

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1 itemsRecovered December 19, 1923, Husky Inlet, Yukon Territory. Finder was Papsok. Returned by S. T. Wood, Inspector, Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Archival Resource Key. S.T. Wood to the Philadelphia Geographical Society, 1924 March 8. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Herschel Island, Yukon Territory; accompanies return of Drift Cask Form #35

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to S. T. Wood, 1924 June 4. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Philadelphia

Archival Resource Key. Printed Drift Cask Form #46, 1901 Aug 21. 1 items.

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1 itemsRecovered August 17th, 1902, 172° 50' W 67° 01' N, along the Siberian coast. Finder was A.S. Christiansen.

Archival Resource Key. A.S. Christiansen, to Henry Bryant, 1906 March 3. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS, Nome, Alaska; recounts the circumstances surrounding the recovery of Drift Cask #46.

Archival Resource Key. Printed Drift Cask Form #50 , 1901 Aug 21. 1 items.

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1 items Recovered August, 1903, North Cape Siberia. Finder was an inhabitant of Ammen.

Archival Resource Key. "Memoranda Relating to Cask No. 50" , n.d. 1 items.

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1 items

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6 items

Archival Resource Key. Newspaper Clipping "Drifted Amundsen's Way", 1909 Jan 11. 1 items.

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1 itemsThe Sun, Philadelphia

Archival Resource Key. Newspaper Clipping, from Public Ledger, in "Current Topics of the Town" , 1919 Nov 5.

Container Summary

On Drift Cask #2.

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant "Another Drift Cask Received": Copy of Letter Mailed to the New York Times , 1924 May 20. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, on the recovery of Drift Cask #35 by an Eskimo, Dec. 10, 1923 in the Yukon Territories

Archival Resource Key. F. B. Bassett to Henry Bryant, 1924 May 23. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Washington D.C.

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to F.B. Bassett , 1924 May 29. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Philadelphia

Archival Resource Key. F.B. Bassett to Henry Bryant , 1924 June 2. 1 items.

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1 items TLS, Washington D.C.

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2 items

Archival Resource Key. "Table Showing Distribution of Melville-Bryant Drift Casks", n.d. 1 items.

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1 items

Archival Resource Key. "Memoranda Relating to Distribution of Melville-Bryant Drift Casks", n.d. 1 items.

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1 items

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11 items

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to Richard E. Byrd , 1928 Oct 7. 1 items.

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1 itemsTelegram, Philadelphia; notifies Byrd that Bryant will donate $1000 to his expedition.

Archival Resource Key. Richard E. Byrd to Henry Bryant , 1928 Oct 8. 1 items.

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1 itemsTelegram, Los Angeles. Three copies, one pasted up from tape. "Sorry not to have seen you before leaving."

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to Capt. H.H. Railey , 1928 Oct 16. 1 items.

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1 itemsTL, Philadelphia; notifies of Bryant's intention to donate $1000 to Byrd's expedition.

Archival Resource Key. H.H. Railey to Henry Bryant , 1928 Oct 17. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, New York

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to H.H. Railey , 1928 Oct 22. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Philadelphia

Archival Resource Key. Receipt of check for $1000, signed by H.H. Railey , 1928 Oct 23. 1 items.

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1 itemsTDS

Archival Resource Key. Notification of tax deduction for expedition contributions, signed by H.H. Railey , n.d. 1 items.

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1 itemsTDS

Archival Resource Key. H.H. Railey to Henry Bryant , 1929 April 3. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, New York; requests further donation to the Antarctic expedition.

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to H.H. Railey , 1929 April 10. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Philadelphia; makes further donation of $250

Archival Resource Key. Richard E. Byrd to Henry Bryant, 1929 Dec 10. 1 items.

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1 items"Radiogram, Received by the New York Times", Little America, Antarctica. "It was good to hear from you. Don't forget you helped to make possible the things we have been able to accomplish here."

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to H.H.Railey , 1929 Dec 17. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Philadelphia; seeks advice on inviting Byrd to give a lecture at the Geograhical Society of Philadelphia after his return

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1 items

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant, "The Byrd Dinner" , 1926 Dec 15 . 1 items.

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1 items An account of the proceedings of the award ceremony, including the text of Bryant's "Address on presenting Kane Medal of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia to Commander Byrd"

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2 items

Archival Resource Key. Robert Peary to Henry Bryant, 1909 Sept 7. 1 items.

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1 itemsTelegram, Indian Harbor. "The pole is ours thank you. Peary."

Archival Resource Key. Bridgeman to Geographical Society of Philadelphia , 1909 Sept 7. 1 items.

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1 itemsTelegram, Brooklyn, NY. "North pole discovered April sixth 1909 by Perry Artic [sic] Club Expedition undercommander Peary."

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11 items

Archival Resource Key. Constantin Dumbrava to Henry Bryant, n.d. 1 items.

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1 itemsANS, Paris

Archival Resource Key. Photo of "La Madona", n.d. 1 items.

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1 items

Archival Resource Key. "The Arctic Expedition "La Madona"" , n.d. 1 items.

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1 itemsDescription of expedition details

Archival Resource Key. Edwin Swift Balch to Henry Bryant, 1927 March 8. 1 items.

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1 items ALS, Philadelphia

Archival Resource Key. William H. Hobbs to Constantin Dumbrava , 1927 March 14. 1 items.

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1 itemsTL, Ann Arbor, Michigan; concerning the best base for Dumbrava's upcoming expedition

Archival Resource Key. Constantin Dumbrava to Henry Bryant, 1927 April 5. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, New York; details of expedition

Archival Resource Key. William Hobbs to Henry Bryant, 1927 May. 1 items.

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1 itemsANS, Frederik VIII (ship); requests support for Dumbrava's expedition

Archival Resource Key. Constantin Dumbrava, to Henry Bryant, 1927 May 11. 1 items.

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1 itemsTL, New York; requests to be put in contact with Mr. Wanamaker for futher financial support

Archival Resource Key. Constantin Dumbrava to Henry Bryant, 1927 May 11. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, New York

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to Constantin Dumbrava, 1927 May 18. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Philadelphia

Archival Resource Key. Constantin Dumbrava to Henry Bryant , 1927 May 27. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, New York

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25 items

Archival Resource Key. Martin Conway to Henry Bryant. , 1899 Sept 24. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS, London

Archival Resource Key. James Bryce to Charles E. Fay, 1909 Dec 18. 1 items.

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1 itemsApcS, Washington D.C.

Archival Resource Key. Unknown correspondent to Henry Bryant, n.d. 1 items.

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1 itemsAPcS, Cannes France

Archival Resource Key. Charles Richmond (poem), 1908 June 10. 1 items.

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1 itemsADS, New York

Archival Resource Key. Admiral Sir Assheton G. Curzon Howe to Henry Bryant, n.d. 1910. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS

Archival Resource Key. Howard Palmer to Henry Bryant. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, New London, CT

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to LeRoy Jeffers, 1916 June 16. 1 items.

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1 items TLS, Philadelphia

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to LeRoy Jeffers , 1916 June 24. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Philadelphia

Archival Resource Key. Edward Evans to Henry Bryant , 1917 May 22. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS

Archival Resource Key. A. Lawrence Lorrell to Henry Bryant, 1920 Jan 28. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Cambridge, MA

Archival Resource Key. Oscar S. Straus to Henry Bryant, 1920 Feb 8. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS, Washington D.C.

Archival Resource Key. William C. Sproul to Henry Bryant, 1920 Feb 14. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS, Harrisburg

Archival Resource Key. Count Paul Teleki, letter of introduction for Edgar Yolland, 1923 Jan 8. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Budapest

Archival Resource Key. Anna Behrend to Henry Bryant, 1926 April 9. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS, Hamburg

Archival Resource Key. "Rough translation" of previous letter from German into English, 1926 April 9. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS, Hamburg

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to Anna Behrend, 1926 April 28. 1 items.

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1 itemsTL

Archival Resource Key. J. Schokalskie to Henry Bryant, 1929 Feb 26. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS, Leningrad; expresses pleasure to hear that Roy Chapman Andrews received the Elisha Kent Kane Gold Medal

Archival Resource Key. J. Schokalskie to Henry Bryant, 1929 April 30. 1 items.

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1 items TLS, Leningrad

Archival Resource Key. J. Schokalskie to Henry Bryant, n.d. 1 items.

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1 itemsAPcS, Leningrad

Archival Resource Key. Wm. Hobbs to Henry Bryant, 1929 July 16. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Ann Arbor

Archival Resource Key. Henry Bryant to Professor William Hobbs , 1929 July 24. 1 items.

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1 itemsAL, draft of repy to preceding letter

Archival Resource Key. Vilhjalmur Stefansson to Henry G. Bryant , 1929 Dec 5. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, New York; asking Bryant to give Italian explorer, Nobile, a chance to speak at the Geographical Society. Nobile reached the North Pole in a dirigible.

Archival Resource Key. R.A. Bartlett, to Henry Bryant, 1931 June 12. 1 items.

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1 itemsAPcS, Brigus

Archival Resource Key. Gilbert Grosvenor to Henry Bryant, 1932 February 2. 1 items.

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1 itemsTLS, Washington D.C.

Archival Resource Key. Edgar Tolland to Henry Bryant, n.d. 1 items.

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1 itemsALS

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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Drift Cask Experiment, 1899-1924. 8 folders.

Archival Resource Key. Recovered Drift Cask Forms and Correspondence, 1899-1924. 15 items.

Archival Resource Key. Correspondence Surrounding Drift Casks, 1909-1924. 6 items.

Archival Resource Key. Drift-Cask Distribution Table, n.d. 2 items.

Archival Resource Key. Byrd Antarctic Expedition - 1929, 1928-1929. 11 items.

Archival Resource Key. Byrd Arctic Expedition, 1926. 1 items.

Archival Resource Key. Peary Arctic Expedition - 1909, 1909. 2 items.

Archival Resource Key. Roumanian/Greenland Expedition - 1927 - 1928, 1927. 11 items.

Archival Resource Key. Correspondence of Henry Grier Bryant, 1899-1932. 25 items.

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