MS 1997-22 Jackson M. Mills diary
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1997-22
name: label: Creator
content: Mills, Jackson M., M.D., 1865-1943
label: Names
content: Peary Relief Expedition of 1892
creator: label: Creator
content: Mills, Jackson M., M.D., 1865-1943
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Peary Relief Expedition was financed by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1892 to search for the presumed-missing Arctic explorer Robert Peary and crew, who had departed for Greenland in 1891. Mills traveled with the Relief Expedition as the ship's surgeon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (Diary 287 typewritten pages.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (Eskimo dictionary 3 typewritten pages.)
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (photographic print. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1892
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Mrs. Irene Fox Conn.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1997-22
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Diaries
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Diaries
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection is composed of a diary (287 typed pages) kept by Dr. Jackson M. Mills, a medical doctor who traveled with the Peary Relief Expedition in 1892. Also present are a photograph of Mills and a typed 3-page Eskimo dictionary.