PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM
East India Square, Salem, MA 01970

Entry #1

Author: Peabody, George, 1795-1869.
Title: Papers, 1815-1927.
Description: 144.5 linear ft. (173 v., 229 boxes, and 16 oversized bundles).
Summary: Merchant, banker, and philanthropist; born in South Danvers (renamed Peabody), MA.; later of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, MD, and London, England.
Business correspondence, incoming series includes correspondence from merchants, bankers, and business associates in the U.S., and throughout the world, including correspondence of partners Wetmore & Cryder, C.C. Gooch, and J.S. Morgan, and companies cooperating with Peabody on special ventures: Corcoran & Riggs and Baring Brothers, Atlantic Telegraph Co., Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co., and others.
Pamphlets series documents Peabody’s business and civic interests and chiefly concerns Peabody foundations (Peabody Institutes and Peabody Education and Donation funds), banks, railroads, canal companies, Atlantic Telegraph Co., celebrations and festivals, and other subjects.
Location: Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970.
Source: NUCMC/OCLC.