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Box F.21

 Container

Contains 200 Results:

Frisby, Herbert M., circa 1929-1983

 Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
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,...
Dates: circa 1929-1983

Frisby, Herbert M. - Correspondence, 1956-1971

 File — Box: F.21
Scope and Contents

Includes postcards to Carl J. Murphy and letters to Bettye M. Phillips (later Moss).

Dates: 1956-1971

Frisby, Herbert M. - Expedition Photographs, circa 1952-1959

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: circa 1952-1959

Frisby, Herbert M. - Funeral and Obituary File, 1983

 File — Box: F.21
Scope and Contents

Includes funeral program, photographs of Frisby's funeral, and photographs included in Frisby's obituary dating back to earlier years.

Dates: 1983