COMMANDER PEARY'S SHIP, THE ROOSEVELT.

COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY, AND THREE OF HIS ESKIMO DOGS, ON THE

ROOSEVELT.

DR. F. A. COOK ON HIS ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 21, 1909.

(Photograph by Brown Bros., N. Y.).

PRESIDENT TAFT SIGNING THE PROCLAMATION MAKING ARIZONA THE FORTY-EIGHTH

STATE OF THE UNION, AT THE WHITE HOUSE, FEBRUARY 14, 1912. (Copyright by

Clinedinst, Washington).

PRESIDENT TAFT SIGNING THE PROCLAMATION MAKING NEW MEXICO A STATE,

JANUARY 6, 1912. (Photograph, copyright, by Clinedinst, Washington).