Item 12592 - Capt. MacMillan, Schooner Bowdoin, 1925

Item 12592 - Capt. MacMillan, Schooner Bowdoin, 1925
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Item 12592
Capt. MacMillan, Schooner Bowdoin, 1925
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Captain Donald Baxter MacMillan is shown here onboard his schooner Bowdoin in 1925 departing for an Arctic voyage.

MacMillan named his vessel Bowdoin, to honor his alma mater. He taught school for a few years before being recruited as an assistant by Admiral Robert E. Peary to sail on a 1908 Arctic expedition.

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