Draft:Peter Dutkewich

Meletius Peter Dutkewich was a photographer between 1871 and 1939.^[1] He was known for being an adventurer, big game hunter, and for his attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with Peter MacQueen in 1909.

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Dutkewich was born in Warsaw, Poland/Russia in 1871 before emigrating to the United States as a teenager. He became a US citizen in 1895.^[2] Between 1908 and 1909, Dutkewich and Peter MacQueen plotted an expedition from the Nile River to East Africa and Kilimanjaro, for the purpose of writing about their adventures. The excursion was later published in a book called "In Wildest Africa: The record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East/Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes. With illustrations from original photographs by Peter Dutkewich. Peter McQueen, London: George Bell, 1910."^[3]

In the 1920s, Dutkewich met Bert Underwood of Underwood & UnderwoodUnderwood & Underwood while both were traveling in Athens during the Greco-Turkish War. According to his memoir, Underwood offered Dutkewich a job on the spot, but was turned down until Dutkewich fulfilled his ongoing contract with another photographic house. He continued to do freelance work for Underwood & Underwood and other American stereoscopic companies such as B.W. Kilburn & Co., of New York.

Over the course of his life, Dutkewich photographed nearly every continent, including Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Japan, India, China, Siberia, Turkey, the Philippines, the Canadian Rockies, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and many others.