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George Peabody Library records
Collection
Identifier: RG-03-017
Overview
In 1857, philanthropist George Peabody gave the amount of $300,000 for the funding of a library in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The construction of what was then known as the Library of the Peabody Institute (also the Peabody Institute Library) in Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood began in 1858. Due to the difficulties of opening such a library during the Civil War (1861-1865), the building was not officially dedicated to the public until 1866 and 1878, the west wing and east wing,...
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Special Collections
Peabody Institute Office of the Provost records
Collection
Identifier: PIRG-03
Overview
Records documenting the activities of the executive office of the Institute. Includes correspondence from prospective lecturers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Fiske, and James Russell Lowell (1867-1913); correspondence concerning the library, including letters received from Abram Stevens Hewitt of Cooper Union, E. W. Blatchford of the Newberry Library, and Melvil Dewey; numerous letters from the Institute librarian, Philip R. Uhler, to the provost reporting library activities during the...
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Peabody Archives
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- Brown, Lloyd A. (Lloyd Arnold), 1907-1966 1
- Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931 1
- Dielman, Louis Henry, 1864-1959 1
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 1
- Enoch Pratt Free Library 1
- Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908 1
- Hewitt, Abram S. (Abram Stevens), 1822-1903 1
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- Jones, Frank N., 1906- 1
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 1
- Morison, Nathaniel Holmes, 1815-1890 1
- Morris, John G. (John Gottlieb), 1803-1895 1
- Parker, John, 1852-1927 1
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