"By Aeroplane to Pygmyland" Accounts of the 1926 Smithsonian-Dutch Expedition to New Guinea

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Annotations to the Journal of Matthew Stirling

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May 28, 1926 Pickford

A reference to the internationally popular silent film star. Pickford was famously known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curls."

 

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