Finally got my sultry Fred signed photo back from the framemaker! He's now beautifully framed. 🥰

"Latest photo of Dr Cook" it says on the back. Probably 1910s? Love the beard. 💖 [Press photo, my collection]

"Dr. Cook, his mother, sister, and an employee, in front of his milk depot in Brooklyn. His first milk wagon in front." Fred was a businessman ever since he was a teenager. From rags to riches, living the American Dream! [Press photo. My collection.]

Fredrick Albert Cook, US American explorer, physician, & ethnographer, died on 5 August, 1940, in New Rochelle, New York. Cook was part of polar expeditions to both the Antarctic and the Arctic. See Dr. Frederick A. Cook for more! Image: Library of Congress

On 5 August 1940, Dr. Frederick Albert Cook died. "The world has important use for dreamers, even if they fail.", he once wrote. ❤️

Frederick Cook in New York, 1909. Looking dapper. Wonder what's in that large pocket of his coat. [Press photo, my collection]

Beautiful Fred. 💕

Signatures of the members of the Belgica Expedition who left Antwerp on 16 August 1897. Frederick Cook would join them later in Brazil. #Antarctica [Museum aan de Stroom Belgica exhibition.]

Very demure, very mindful.

The discoverer of the North Pole, Frederick Cook, in Copenhagen in 1909. [Press photo, my collection]

Miranda, the steamer of Arctic expedition of Frederick Albert Cook, was abandoned and then sank in the Davis Straits on 23 August, 1894. The Durham Daily Globe, (North Carolina), 7 September, 1894. Image: Walsh, H. C. The Last Cruise of the Miranda. New York, 1895.

Love it when Fred gets called the discoverer of the North Pole. [Postcard 1909, my collection] #Arctic #TeamFred

What, you don't believe that Frederick Cook went to the North Pole? No worries, he'll show you exactly where he was on the globe. Picture taken in 1936. [Press pic, my collection] #Arctic

On this day, 4 September 1909, Frederick Cook arrived in Copenhagen after claiming to have reached the North Pole. [Press photo, my collection] #TeamCook #Arctic

Frederick Cook: the Antarctic angel. 🙏 [Pic: Fram Museum]

A neat photobook to commemorate Cook and Peary reaching the Pole (1909). Obligatory boooooo Peary. [My collection] #Arctic

A Banquet was held in honour of Frederick A. Cook by the Arctic Club of America on 23 September, 1909, at the Waldorf-Astoria, NYC. Image: Library of Congress See Dr. Frederick A. Cook for all stuff Cook.

"Explorer and entrance to igloo" I didn't recognise Fred at first! ['At the Pole with Cook & Peary', 1909. My collection.] #Arctic