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Edward M. Greenway, Jr. Autograph collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0023
Abstract
Edward McDonald Greenway, Jr. was born in New York in 1820. The collection spans the years 1737 to 1876 and consists of approximately 250 items of correspondence and some legal documents. The correspondents are primarily prominent lawyers, politicians, statesmen, and figures of the Revolutionary War from Maryland.
Dates:
1737-1876
Found in:
Special Collections
George Peabody Library records
Collection
Identifier: RG-03-017
Abstract
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,...
Dates:
1860-1980s; Majority of material found within 1860-1970
Found in:
Special Collections
Leonard Leopold Mackall papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0035
Abstract
Leonard Leopold Mackall, American bibliographer, editor and collector was born in Baltimore on January 29, 1879. The collection consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, subject files and other research materials. The correspondence in the collection spans the years 1547 to 1937 with the bulk of the material spanning 1900-1937. There is additional information dating from 1949 regarding the collection after it was acquired by Johns Hopkins Libraries.
Dates:
1547-1937, 1949; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1937
Found in:
Special Collections
Peabody Institute Board of Trustees records
Record Group
Identifier: PIRG-02
Abstract
Records documenting activities of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Institute. Includes: 12 volumes and several additional folders of recorded minutes of board meetings (1857-1985); Treasurer's reports (1867-1969); Provost's reports (1869-1912); Executive Secretary's reports (1912-45); miscellaneous general records and correspondence; records of the Offices of the President (1859-1970), Vice-President (1876-1905), Secretary (1860-1922), and Treasurer (1857-1941), the bulk of the latter...
Dates:
Inclusive: 1832-1989; Majority of material found within Bulk: 1857-1985
Found in:
Peabody Archives
Peabody Institute founding documents
Record Group
Identifier: PIRG-01
Abstract
The Peabody Institute was founded by George Peabody in Baltimore in 1857 as a cultural institution comprising a library, public lecture series, academy of music, and art gallery. The founding documents in the collection include the original letter establishing the institute drafted by John Pendleton Kennedy and signed by George Peabody, a list of individuals approved by George Peabody for inclusion on the board of trustees, a letter of acceptance signed by 22 original members of the...
Dates:
1857-1859
Found in:
Peabody Archives
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- Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870 3
- Brown, Lloyd A. (Lloyd Arnold), 1907-1966 2
- Chew, Samuel C. (Samuel Claggett), 1888-1960 2
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 2
- Johns Hopkins University 2
- Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute 2
- Morison, Nathaniel Holmes, 1815-1890 2
- Uhler, Philip R. (Philip Reese), 1835-1913 2
- Wallis, S. Teackle (Severn Teackle), 1816-1894 2
- Adams, John, 1735-1826 1
- Ames, Joseph Sweetman, 1864-1943 1
- Anderson, Edwin Hatfield, 1861-1947 1
- Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848 1
- Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 1
- Bibliographical Society of America 1
- Biddle, Nicholas, 1750-1778 1
- Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 1
- Bridges, Robert, 1844-1930 1
- Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922 1
- Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822 1
- Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961 1
- Carroll, Charles, 1723-1783 1
- Carroll, John Lee, 1830-1911 1
- Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 1
- Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933 1
- Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857 1
- Cole, George Watson, 1850-1939 1
- Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948 1
- Crawford, William Harris, 1772-1834 1
- Crowninshield, Frank, 1872-1947 1
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 1
- Dielman, Louis Henry, 1864-1959 1
- Donelson, Andrew Jackson, 1799-1871 1
- Drayton, William, 1776-1846 1
- Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937 1
- Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937 1
- Eaton, Charles James Madison, 1808-1893 1
- Eaton, John Henry, 1790-1856 1
- Enoch Pratt Free Library 1
- Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 1
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 1
- Faÿ, Bernard, 1893-1978 1
- Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946 1
- Forsyth, John, 1780-1841 1
- Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 1
- Garrison, Fielding H. (Fielding Hudson), 1870-1935 1
- George Peabody Library 1
- Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908 1
- Gilmor, Robert, 1748-1822 1
- Goethe , Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 1
- Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 1
- Green, Duff, 1791-1875 1
- Greenway, Edward M. 1
- Hall, G. Stanley (Granville Stanley), 1844-1924 1
- Hamerik, Asger, 1843-1923 1
- Hampton, Wade, 1752-1835 1
- Harper, Robert Goodloe, 1765-1825 1
- Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841 1
- Havens, Raymond Dexter, 1880-1954 1
- Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799 1
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827 1
- Ingersoll, Charles Jared, 1782-1862 1
- Ingham, Samuel D. 1
- James, Henry, 1879-1947 1
- Johnson, Allen, 1870-1931 1
- Johnson, Reverdy, Jr. 1
- Johnson, Reverdy, Sr. 1
- Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850 1
- Jones, Frank N., 1906- 1
- Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943 1
- Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 1
- Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982 1
- King, William, 1663-1712 1
- Kurrelmeyer, W. (William), 1874- 1
- Lane, William Coolidge, 1859-1931 1
- Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891 1
- Lind, E. G. 1
- Livingston, Edward, 1764-1836 1
- Lounsbury, Thomas R., 1838-1915 1
- Lovett, R. S. (Robert Scott), 1860-1932 1
- Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945 1
- Mackall, Leonard L. (Leonard Leopold), 1879-1937 1
- Marbury, William L. (William Luke), 1901- 1
- Marquis, Don, 1878-1937 1
- Marshall, John, 1755-1835 1
- Mason, John Young, 1806-1873 1
- Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 1
- Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873 1
- Maxcy, Virgil, 1785-1844 1
- Mayhew, William E., 1784-1860 1
- McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928 1
- McKerrow, R. B. (Ronald Brunlees), 1872-1940 1
- McLane, Louis, 1786-1857 1
- Melchers, Gari, 1860-1932 1
- Miller, Charles William Emil, 1863-1934 1
- More, Paul Elmer, 1864-1937 1
- Morris, John G. (John Gottlieb), 1803-1895 1 ∧ less
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