U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
September 11-12, 2013
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 | Lot #84 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1881 Greely, Adolphus Washington (1844-1935) an American Polar explorer, a United States Army officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. He entered the United States Army at the age of 17 and achieved the rank of brevet Major by the end of the Civil War. He joined the regular Army and was promoted to First Lieutenant. In 1881, First Lieutenant Greely was given command of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition on the ship Proteus. Promoted by Henry W. Howgate, its purpose was to establish one of a chain of meteorological-observation stations as part of the First International Polar Year. The expedition was commissioned by the US government to collect astronomical data and to search for the "USS Jeannette", lost north of Ellesmere Island. Greely was without previous Arctic experience, but he and his party were able to discover many hitherto unknown miles along the coast of northwest Greenland. The expedition also crossed Ellesmere Island from east to west. In 1882, Greely sighted a mountain range during a dog sl  | Price Realized $900.00 |
