It's North Pole Discovery Day!

American arctic explorer Robert Edwin Peary and Matthew Henson, his African American assistant, are acknowledged as discovers of the North Pole. Peary, Henson, and four Eskimos reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909.

Pictured: William H. Johnson, (1901–1970), Commodore Peary and Henson at the North Pole,about 1945, oil on paperboard, 27 5/8 x 35 5/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation.