Unveiling of the Robert Peary Memorial

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Re: Robert E. Peary, U.S.N. At the moment of the unveiling of the Peary Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, on April 6, 1922. On the platform from right to left: The Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes; William Howard Taft, the Chief Justice of the United States, who was President of the United States when the North Pole was discovered, and upon whose recommendation to Congress the explorer was created a Rear-Admiral; the Ambassador of France and Mme. Jusserand, Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, President of the National Geographic Society; the President of the United States and Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Robert E. Peary, Dr. E.W. Nelson, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, and Rev. Dr. Charles Wood. Partly concealed by the flag (at the right) is Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

	UNIT I:		Early America	UNIT IX:	Discontent and Reform
	UNIT II:		Colonial Period	UNIT X:	War, Prosperity, and Depression
	UNIT III:		American Revolution	UNIT XI:	New Deal and World War II
	UNIT IV:		New National Government	UNIT XII:	Postwar America
	UNIT V:		Westward Expansion	UNIT XIII:	Decades of Change
	UNIT VI:		Sectional Conflict	UNIT XIV:	New Conservatism
	UNIT VII:		Civil War and Reconstruction	UNIT XV:	Into the Twenty-first Century
	UNIT VIII:		Growth and Transformation	UNIT XVI:	Polarization and Deglobalization

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