Robert E Peary

the Roosevelt

Flag raised at the North Pole by Peary

Steaming in a northwesterly course from Cape York, we passed the "Crimson Cliffs," so named by Sir John Ross, the English explorer, in 1818. This vivid name was applied to the cliffs by reason of the quantities of "red snow" which can be seen from a ship miles out at sea. The color is given to the permanent snow by the Protococcus nivalis, one of the lowest types of the single, living protoplasmic cell. The nearly transparent gelatinous masses vary from a quarter inch in diameter to the size of a pin-head, and[73] they draw from the snow and the air the scanty nourishment which they require. Seen from a distance, the snow looks like blood. This red banner of the Arctic has greeted me on all my northern journeys.

The North Pole, Robert E. Peary

ancient Egyptian fishing hook 1539-1292 B.C.E., XVIII Dynasty

The Farrell Collection

Anchor gill nets, Edenton, NC, ca. 1939

Duck hunting, Core Sound, NC, ca. 1937

Shark fishermen, Morehead City, NC, March 1941

Bald Head Island, Brunswick County, NC, ca. 1939

Gillikin Island, Onslow County, NC, ca. 1939. Leonard Gillikin: his antecedents for many generations have fished for Spots and Mullet at Brown's Inlet on the Onslow Banks. This exceptionally fine fishing area within the confines of the Marine Base.

Manteo, NC, ca. 1939

Dare County, NC, ca. 1937

Bald Head Island, Brunswick County, NC, ca. 1939 / Gillikin Island, Onslow County, NC, ca. 1939

The Charles A. Farrell Photograph Collection contains photographic negatives and prints created by Charles Farrell while he was engaged as a commercial photographer in Greensboro during the 1920s and 1930s. Portions of the photograph collection were taken by Anne Farrell while she was a partner with her husband in operation of the Art Shop in Greensboro.

E. River

1939-1-19 Pierce Ferry PERM-No-4578