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The crew of the Roosevelt, Robert Peary’s Arctic exploration ship, New York, September 1909. Peary’s claims of discovering previously uncharted Arctic lands and reaching the North Pole were considered dubious even in his day. In the course of his explorations he had eight toes amputated. Via Shorpy.
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