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MacMillian was a polar explorer. history.howstuffworks.com/polar-history/d-b-macmillan.htm

This image has been used in the indicommons.org post First of The Commons, on the first anniversary of the Library of Congress and Flickr's pilot launch.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_Land_Expedition

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Walter Elmer Ekblaw (1882-1949), midwestern geology professor, taught at the University of Illinois, 1910-1913. Is credited as the founder of Homecoming festivities at the University. Ekblaw was on the same 1913 Arctic expedition as Maurice Tanquary (seen in a recent Flickr Commons upload): Nice article about the expedition, with more photos of Ekblaw and Tanquary: www.uiaa.org/urbana/illinoisalumni/0801b.html

pennylrichardsca: Thanks for the information. It looks (after some rotating and flipping) as though the date on the negative is June 27, 1913. Mr. Ekblaw, as part of the Crocker Land Expedition, left from New York on July 2, 1913. (Dates on the negatives can be mysterious but likely do indicate when the photo was used.)

I started an entry in Wikipedia for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Elmer_Ekblaw

Arctic explorer. library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl132.htm

Cynthia Wenslow: Thanks for the link to additional information on Mr. Green. We will add more details when we update the record.

In 1913, the Navy granted Green leave to join the MacMillan party in Arctic exploration. He was gone for three years.

I started a Wikipedia entry for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzhugh_Green,_Sr. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_Land_Expedition

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"Maurice Tanquary taught entomology for several years at Kansas State Agricultural College before joining the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1919 as chief of the division of entomology. Tanquary was interested in apiculture and resigned in 1923 to enter professional beekeeping in North Dakota. He later joined the University of Minnesota in apiculture and remained there until 1944. " entohistory.tamu.edu/hallofhonor/hallofhonor.html

Photo is dated in reverse, June 27, 1913, just before Professor Tanquary became a member of the ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition, an arctic exploring party. It took him 100 days to make a 1300-mile sledge trip out of the frozen north. Here is his report in the New York Times: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9402E...

Thanks for the information and for noting the date on the negative. We can add that to the description when we update it.

I started an entry for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Cole_Tanquary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_Land_Expedition