Portrait of Matthew Alexander Henson (1866-1955) taken shortly after his trip to the Arctic - From his autobiography "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole" published 1912 - Henson accompanied Commander Robert Peary reaching the North Pole on April 6, 1909 with their Inuit guides

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