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George Peabody Library records
Record Group
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
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
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- Chew, Samuel C. (Samuel Claggett), 1888-1960 1
- Dielman, Louis Henry, 1864-1959 1
- Eaton, Charles James Madison, 1808-1893 1
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- Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908 1
- Hamerik, Asger, 1843-1923 1
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- Jones, Frank N., 1906- 1
- Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870 1
- Lind, E. G. 1
- Marbury, William L. (William Luke), 1901- 1
- Mayhew, William E., 1784-1860 1
- Morris, John G. (John Gottlieb), 1803-1895 1
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- Pratt, Enoch, 1808-1896 1
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