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100 Days in Photographs

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Robert E. Peary documented his 1909 trip to the North Pole with a No. 4 Folding Pocket Kodak. Though the camera was lost, images taken with it were used by the National Geographic Society in 1989 to determine that Peary's claim of reaching the Pole, the subject of controversy since the day he made it, was valid. In this photo, Peary scouts the Arctic terrain using a telescope. Learn more and buy the book: 100 Days in Photographs: Pivotal Events That Changed The World. Photograph courtesy the Robert E. Peary Collection/NGS Image Collection