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PHOTOGRAPH OF MATTHEW HENSON – AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPLORER

Vintage press photo taken on Roosevelt after return to the U.S. circa 1909

$2,000.00

PHOTOGRAPH OF MATTHEW HENSON – AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPLORER
PHOTOGRAPH OF MATTHEW HENSON – AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPLORER

Description

Born in Maryland to sharecropper parents, he was famous for accompanying Robert Peary on seven voyages to the arctic and was the first of their party to reach the North Pole. Vintage press photo taken on Roosevelt after return to the U.S. circa 1909. Taken by the Brown Brothers. 

 

Size: 5” x 6.5” 

 

$2,000.00