Box LGL.04

Scope and Contents Coverage includes writing and photography by Herbert M. Frisby while writing for the AFRO during World War II, covering the arctic front. Additional photographs, clippings, correspondence, and printed material document his own career as an arctic explorer and a teacher as well as his decades-long efforts to have Matthew Henson recognized for his achievement as the first African American man to reach the North Pole with Admiral Peary in 1909. Photographs of family include his wife and child,...

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Photographs taken by Frisby during expeditions aboard the S.S. Kyle to Greenland and Labrador. See also "Frisby, Herbert M. - Writing, "Stories and Reports from the Top of the World" for photographs from a 1954 expedition to Greenland.

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Coverage of Herbert Frisby's efforts to recognize Matthew Henson's achievement as the first Black man to reach the North Pole. Includes an original illustration by Thomas Stockett.

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note on folder reads "Died 10/75"

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Notes on original folders read "1973 Honor Roll" and "Businessman and former Baltimore City Police Dept. Administrator"

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Folder may also include coverage of James. D. Fowler Jr.