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English: In Admiral Peary's book, Secrets of Polar Travel, he extols Dunham snow shoes (from Norway, Maine) as "the best shoe made" (p. 76). Original caption for this photograph: "The center pair of shoes, five feet long, one foot wide, with raised toe and ski curve in the middle, is the best shoe made."
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Source Secrets of Polar Travel, on Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/secretsofpolartr00pear/page/76/mode/2up
Author Robert E. Peary

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Dunham show shoes, used by Robert E. Peary on polar expeditions.

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