| LC control no. | n 83124709 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 |
| Variant(s) | Diebitsch-Peary, Josephine, 1863-1955 Diebitsch, Josephine Cecilia, 1863-1955 |
| Biography/History note | Josephine Diebitsch Peary (b. Josephine Cecilia Diebitsch, May 22, 1864, Forestville, Maryland-d. December 19, 1955, Portland, Maine), wife of Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, was an Arctic explorer and author. |
| Located | Greenland Portland (Me.) |
| Birth date | 18630522 |
| Death date | 19551219 |
| Place of birth | Forestville (Md.) |
| Place of death | Portland (Me.) |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Found in | Her My Arctic journal, a year among ice-fields and Eskimos, 1893: t.p. (Josephine Diebitsch-Peary) LC in OCLC, 12/6/83 (hdg.: Peary, Josephine Diebitsch; usage: Josephine Diebitsch-Peary) UnM/Canadiana files (hdg.: Peary, Mrs. Josephine (Diebitsch); usage: Josephine Diebitsch Peary; Josephine Diebitsch-Peary) Josephine Diebitsch Peary Papers, 1863-1955: (Arctic explorer; wife of Robert E. Peary) <http://research.archives.gov/description/2843246> Wikipedia.org, Apr. 23, 2015 (Josephine Diebitsch Peary; b. Josephine Cecilia Diebitsch, May 22, 1864, Forestville, Maryland; d. December 19, 1955; American author and arctic explorer; In 1888, she married Arctic explorer Robert Peary) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Diebitsch_Peary> Bowdoin College WWW site via Google, Apr. 23, 2015: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum biographies page (Josephine Diebitsch Peary; married Robert Peary in 1888; in June of 1891 Josephine accompanied her husband and the small crew of the Kite to northern Greenland) <http://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/biographies/jpeary.shtml> University of New England, Maine Women Writers Collection WWW site, viewed Apr. 23, 2015: finding aid: Josephine Diebitsch Peary papers (Josephine Diebitsch Peary was born May 22, 1863 in Washington, D.C. She was the daughter of Herman Henry Diebitsch of Prussia and Magdelena Augusta Schmid Diebitsch of Saxony. Her father was a professor at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; In 1885, while attending dancing school in Washington, Josephine met Robert Edwin Peary, the future Admiral who would become known for discovering the North Pole. Three years later, on August 11, 1888, the two were married and began a life of discovery together) <http://www.une.edu/node/903/josephine-diebitsch-peary> The Bulletin and Scots Pictorial via Google News Apr. 23, 2015: obituary, Tuesday, December 20, 1955 (Josephine Diebitsch Peary, widow of American naval officer who discovered the North Pole, died at Portland, Maine, yesterday; accompanied her husband, Admiral Robert Peary, on several trips ... traveled farther north over the ice fields than any other white woman. Her daughter, called the "snow baby" was born less than 900 miles from the North Pole in 1893) <https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c4E-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=qEsMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1947,6351440&dq=josephine+diebitsch&hl=en> |
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