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The Peabody Collection consists of 672 glass plate negatives in various sizes, 1054 film negatives in various sizes, 24 photograph albums, 887 loose photographs in a variety of formats, published works, and manuscript material, created and collected by Henry G. Peabody, 1859-1993 (bulk 1890s-1900s). The materials collectively describe Peabody's long career as a commercial landscape photographer working on both the east and west coasts of the United States. The photographs and negatives depict Peabody and his family; landscape views in New England, Canada, the western United States, California, and Mexico; Native Americans; city and landscape views in Great Britain, France, and Switzerland; portraits; architectural renderings; plants and animals; unidentified landscapes; and miscellaneous images. Additional photographers and photographic firms represented in the collection include Alexander Hesler, Charles F. Lummis, and Spence Air Photos. The published works contain photographs by Peabody. The manuscript material provides information about Peabody's negatives; contains catalogs of Peabody's works for sale; describes Peabody's commercial dealings as both a photographer and seller of photographic equipment; and contains ephemeral material collected by Peabody throughout his life.
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The Peabody Collection consists of 672 glass plate negatives in various sizes, 1054 film negatives in various sizes, 24 photograph albums, 887 loose photographs in a variety of formats, published works, and manuscript material, created and collected by Henry G. Peabody, 1859-1993 (bulk 1890s-1900s). The materials collectively describe Peabody's long career as a commercial landscape photographer working on both the east and west coasts of the United States. The photographs and negatives depict Peabody and his family; landscape views in New England, Canada, the western United States, California, and Mexico; Native Americans; city and landscape views in Great Britain, France, and Switzerland; portraits; architectural renderings; plants and animals; unidentified landscapes; and miscellaneous images. Additional photographers and photographic firms represented in the collection include Alexander Hesler, Charles F. Lummis, and Spence Air Photos. The published works contain photographs by Peabody. The manuscript material provides information about Peabody's negatives; contains catalogs of Peabody's works for sale; describes Peabody's commercial dealings as both a photographer and seller of photographic equipment; and contains ephemeral material collected by Peabody throughout his life.
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School interiors and students at work
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The Peabody Collection consists of 672 glass plate negatives in various sizes, 1054 film negatives in various sizes, 24 photograph albums, 887 loose photographs in a variety of formats, published works, and manuscript material, created and collected by Henry G. Peabody, 1859-1993 (bulk 1890s-1900s). The materials collectively describe Peabody's long career as a commercial landscape photographer working on both the east and west coasts of the United States. The photographs and negatives depict Peabody and his family; landscape views in New England, Canada, the western United States, California, and Mexico; Native Americans; city and landscape views in Great Britain, France, and Switzerland; portraits; architectural renderings; plants and animals; unidentified landscapes; and miscellaneous images. Additional photographers and photographic firms represented in the collection include Alexander Hesler, Charles F. Lummis, and Spence Air Photos. The published works contain photographs by Peabody. The manuscript material provides information about Peabody's negatives; contains catalogs of Peabody's works for sale; describes Peabody's commercial dealings as both a photographer and seller of photographic equipment; and contains ephemeral material collected by Peabody throughout his life.
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The Peabody Collection consists of 672 glass plate negatives in various sizes, 1054 film negatives in various sizes, 24 photograph albums, 887 loose photographs in a variety of formats, published works, and manuscript material, created and collected by Henry G. Peabody, 1859-1993 (bulk 1890s-1900s). The materials collectively describe Peabody's long career as a commercial landscape photographer working on both the east and west coasts of the United States. The photographs and negatives depict Peabody and his family; landscape views in New England, Canada, the western United States, California, and Mexico; Native Americans; city and landscape views in Great Britain, France, and Switzerland; portraits; architectural renderings; plants and animals; unidentified landscapes; and miscellaneous images. Additional photographers and photographic firms represented in the collection include Alexander Hesler, Charles F. Lummis, and Spence Air Photos. The published works contain photographs by Peabody. The manuscript material provides information about Peabody's negatives; contains catalogs of Peabody's works for sale; describes Peabody's commercial dealings as both a photographer and seller of photographic equipment; and contains ephemeral material collected by Peabody throughout his life.
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Photographs and Negatives
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The Peabody Collection's 649 glass plate negatives (4 x 5 inch, 5 x 7 inch, and 8 x 10 inch), 1049 film negatives (4 x 5 inch, 5 x 7 inch, 8 x 10 inch, and stereograph), 24 photograph albums (housing 1174 photographs), and 887 loose photographs (boudoir photographs, cartes-de-visite, stereographs, 8 x 10 inch prints, and large mounted prints), dated 1884-1940s (bulk 1890s-1900s), provide a comprehensive view of Peabody's career as a commercial landscape photographer as well as a broad visual survey of many national parks and monuments in New England and the western United States. The first section is devoted to portraits of Peabody and other family members, and images from family trips. The majority of the portraits (of Peabody, his wife Dora, and his daughter Mildred) were taken by Peabody in his studio at 52 Boylston Street in Boston; a few were created by Peabody while in partnership with Alexander Hesler in Chicago; and others were taken by Hesler. Almost all of these were created in boudoir photograph format; some exist in carte-de-visite format. Also included are views of Peabody with his camera equipment in the outdoors, views of Peabody's studio in Pasadena, oversize group photographs of Peabody's tenth reunion at Dartmouth College, and the interior of "Car 159" (Peabody's private car on the Boston and Maine Railroad). This section also contains many photographs of Dora and Mildred Peabody, including images of Mildred at summer camp on Lake Champlain in Vermont, with friends, and at various national parks. Peabody's house at 800 Prospect Boulevard in Pasadena is represented in this section, as is his boat, the Venture (depicted in mounted photographs and in a photograph album with an extensive narrative detailing a trip up the New England coast in 1884). This section also contains three photograph albums describing a trip taken by Peabody, his wife, and friends to the north, south, and middle forks of the King's River circa 1900. Other images in this section include a group photograph of Peabody's father's fiftieth Dartmouth class reunion and a portrait of Peabody's Aunt Helen. The section devoted to New England consists exclusively of city and landscape views. Included are views of Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut and Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts (in stereograph format); historic sites in and around Boston; the Massachusetts coast, including Salem; New Hampshire (including Lake Winnipesaukee, Franconia Notch, and the White Mountains); the coast of Maine (including Bald Head Cliff near York, and the Isles of Shoals); Lake Champlain and Mallett's Bay in Vermont; and images of the Boston and Maine Railroad trains and ferries. Many of these images include Dora and Mildred Peabody; many were published in Picturesque New England (box 50); and many have identifications written by Peabody on the verso. Peabody's work in Western Canada consists entirely of photographs of the Canadian Rockies in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Included are views of the Fraser River Canyon; the Hermit Range; Mounts Abbot, Sir Donald, Stephen, Aberdeen, Lefroy, Victoria, Assiniboine; views of Asulkan, Illecillewaet, Yoho, and Victoria Glaciers; various mountain ranges (including the Selkirk Mountains, Ottertail Range, Van Horne Range, and Cascade Mountains); Wapta Canyon, River and Peak; the Yoho Valley; Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, Lake Agnes, and Lake Minnewanka; Bow River and Valley; and the Banff Springs Hotel and surrounding areas. These sites are encompassed by Banff National Park, Glacier National Park, and Yoho National Park. Some of the photographs were taken for the Detroit Publishing Company and have imprinted copyright information; others bear Peabody's copyright. The majority have identifications written by Peabody on the verso. Following Canada are images documenting Peabody's interest in the Western United States' national parks and monuments. Images of Yellowstone National Park include 6 photograph albums, loose prints, and negatives depicting a wide variety of scenery in the park, including geysers and hot springs; the Firehole River; Yellowstone Lake, River, Canyon, and the falls; the Teton Mountains; Shoshone Canyon and Buffalo Bill Dam; and scenery along the road to Cody, Wyoming. The Container List details the contents of each album. Many images are duplicated throughout the albums. Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park are documented in 5 photograph albums (3 depicting images of both, and one each of Zion and Bryce), some stereographs, and negatives all depicting numerous views of the canyons and rock formations in each park. The Container List details the contents of each album. Many images are duplicated throughout the albums. The Grand Canyon is represented by one photograph album, many prints and many corresponding, and unique, negatives. In addition to views of the Canyon are images of a Hopi war dance. Yosemite National Park is depicted in one photograph album, prints, and negatives. Views include Yosemite Valley; many of the falls and rock formations; and Mariposa Grove. The section describing assorted national parks and monuments includes a wide variety of both landscape and Native American images taken in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Mesa Verde National Park is represented by a photograph album and negatives. Rainbow Natural Bridge, Natural Bridges National Monument, the Goblet of Venus (near Blanding, Utah), Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Laguna Pueblo, La Mesa Encantada, Acoma (New Mexico), the Petrified Forest, Painted Desert, Walnut Canyon, the Grand Canyon, Crater Lake, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Montezuma's Castle, Craters of the Moon, and Casa Grande are documented in three photograph albums entitled "National Monuments of Desert and Mesa" as well as in loose prints and negatives. The Container List details the contents of each album. Many images are duplicated throughout the albums. Death Valley is documented in a photograph album, loose prints, and negatives, including images taken by Spence Air Photo. Also documented are Canyonlands National Park and Glacier National Park. Other images of the Western United States include Hoover Dam, the Snake River in Idaho, and Ship's Rock in New Mexico; and other images of Arizona include Monument Valley and San Xavier del Bac Mission. Other Native American images depict members of the Navajo, Hopi and Papago tribes; examples of Navajo architecture; Walpi and Oraibi, two Hopi communities; and miscellaneous images. The collection also includes many identified and unidentified views of California. Included are the Imperial Valley; street scenes and buildings in central Los Angeles; the Hollywood Hotel and Paul de Longpre's residence in Hollywood; the San Gabriel region of Southern California, including downtown Pasadena, the Maryland and Green Hotels, California Institute of Technology, the Huntington Library, various residences and gardens in Pasadena, the Tournament of Roses Parade, Altadena, Mount Wilson and Mount Lowe, the San Gabriel Mountains, and Morris Dam; the Hotel Virginia in Long Beach; Avalon Bay; the Mojave Desert; northern California, including Lake Tahoe, San Jose, Stanford University, Muir Woods and redwood trees, Mount Shasta, and Kit Carson Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; Riverside County, including views of Riverside, the Mission Inn, Sherman Indian Institute, Mount Rubidoux, views of orange groves, the Coachella Valley, Palm Canyon, Redlands, Corona, and the Salton Sea; the San Bernardino Mountains; San Diego County, including San Diego and Point Loma, Coronado Beach, Estudillo House in San Diego, La Jolla, Torrey Pines, and San Juan Capistrano Point; San Francisco and vicinity, including Chinatown, the Golden Gate, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Mount Hamilton and the Lick Observatory, buildings on the University of California at Berkeley campus, and the Monterey Peninsula; Santa Barbara County, including the Potter Hotel, the Eaton and Gillespie residences in Montecito, Nordhoff [Ojai], and oil wells at Summerland; Camulos Ranch, the Ventura River, Santa Paula, and a sugar factory in Oxnard, in Ventura County; the California Missions; and unidentified California landscapes, residences, and ocean views. Also included are Peabody's photo sets, "El Camino Real, Part I," "Southern California, Part I," and "Southern California, Part II." "El Camino Real, Part I" is accompanied by Peabody's narration, which is housed in Box 53, folder 10. The latter two sets depict Hoover Dam, the Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Palm Canyon, the San Bernardino Mountains, citrus groves and the citrus industry, the Huntington Library, Colonel Rust and the Gold of Ophir rosebush, California Institute of Technology, the San Gabriel Valley, Pasadena, and the Mount Wilson Observatory. Many of these images are duplicated elswhere in the collection. Peabody traveled to Mexico to photograph Spanish colonial architecture and the collection includes picturesque sights and churches in Mexico City, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Taxco, Guadalajara, Veracruz, Cordoba, Celaya, Cholula, Chapultepec, Puebla, Tepozotlan, and Cuernavaca; Mounts Orizaba and Popocatepetl; and various miscellaneous images. Some of these were published in Sylvester Baxter's Spanish Colonial architecture in Mexico. The Mexican images also include a Peabody photo set, "Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico" (Box 1, numbers 573-597). Peabody's travels to Europe are documented in one photograph album of Great Britain, and another of France and Switzerland. The Great Britain album contains images of London, Stratford-upon-Avon, and cathedrals in Peterborough, Lincoln, York, and Chester. Other images of Great Britain include Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey, and an additional view of Stratford-upon-Avon. The France album contains images of Paris (specifically Notre Dame Cathedral); Chartres, Amiens, and Rheims cathedrals; and Lucerne and the Swiss Alps. Peabody's studio work includes portraits in boudoir format. These are portraits of women, men, women and children, and children. Peabody also made photographs of architectural plans and renderings. These include work by architects Allison and Allison (Santa Monica High School, Union High School in Merced, and the Chautauqua of the Pacific in Los Angeles), Buchanan and Brockway, Foss Designing and Building Company (a hotel in Altadena), Hubert Frohman and Harold H. Martin (including residences in Pasasdena and Altadena, and a woman's club in Tucson), Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (renderings of the Throop College of Technology), Elmer Grey, Myron Hunt (including Pomona College, residences in Montecito and Pasadena), and Withey and Davis (grammar schools in Artesia, Hermosa Beach, and Los Angeles); engineers W.P. Shepherd and Herbert A. Hamm (a factory and a commercial structure); and landscape architect Paul G. Thiene (Goodyear Gardens). Peabody also photographed plants and animals, some of which are included in the "Southern California" photo sets. Included are plants in the garden of the Myron Hunt Residence in Pasadena and the cactus garden at the Hotel del Monte in Monterey, and a number of images of animal displays at a natural history museum. Miscellaneous images in the collection include unidentified landscapes; images of students at work in a classroom; copies of daguerrotypes and paintings; and photographs of the Handy Stereopticon. Some negatives exist in print form; references to these occurences can be found with the prints and on the negative envelopes. Some envelopes contained two or more negatives of the same scene, each with slight variations; Peabody gave these variant images the same number as the original. Some negatives, particularly early glass plates, were reproduced by Peabody in other formats, primarily 5 x 7 inch film. See the ledgers in Series III, Subseries III.A. for details.
Series I.
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Manuscript Material
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The manuscript material, dated 1859-1993, that accompanies Peabody's photographs and negatives provides background information on the photographer's travels, professional interests, and commercial output. It consists of ledgers and negative lists; commercially published catalogs; correspondence; ephemera; and materials collected by Robert Weinstein. The ledgers and negative lists record information about Peabody's negatives, specifically negative number, size, title/subject, style (colored or plain), and copyright date. Ledger 1 (fragment) details negatives arranged by lecture: "In the Footsteps of Cortes"; "A Tour of the White Mountains"; "Around Historical Boston"; "Seashore of New England"; and "Grand Canyon of Arizona." Ledgers 2, 3 and 4 list negatives arranged by negative number. The negative lists detail negatives for some of the national parks and monuments in the Western United States, and the Canadian Rockies. The Swastika Educational Series catalogs were published by Peabody and list the slides (lantern and film), manuals, and films that comprised the Series. They contain information about prices and include "commendatories," or praise from third parties in regards to both Peabody's lectures and the strength of his images. The first and third also contain an index to subjects and localities. The correspondence consists of letters to and from Henry Peabody and various businesses and individuals (including the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway; Bell and Howell Company; Dartmouth College; Encyclopedia Britannica; Ideal Pictures Corporation; National Geographic Society; the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; and the Society for Visual Education). Much of it concerns sales of Peabody's slides and albums to private individuals, schools, and museums; technical discussions about the projection of his films and slides; sales, purchases, and discussions of projection equipment; and slide and film production. The ephemera consists of a scrapbook created by Henry Peabody, a brochure about the Grand Canyon published by Gates Tours, and scripts for Peabody's lectures on El Camino Real. The scrapbook documents Peabody's youth and career, and contains, among other items, mementoes from Peabody's childhood and marriage; catalogues of Peabody's work; the slide narration for Peabody's lecture on Zion National Park; a floor plan of his Boylston Street (Boston) studio; subscription announcements for Peabody's publications; price lists for Peabody's services and for photographic equipment; Peabody lecture programs; advertisement and brochure for Peabody's house at 640 North Prospect Boulevard, Pasadena; ephemeral materials from the United Universalist Conventions' Church of the Golden Rule in Pasadena; Swastika Educational Series brochures and catalogs; and Peabody's Christmas cards (featuring his hand-colored photographs). The Gates Tours brochure, What the tourists say, contains quotes about the experience of seeing the Grand Canyon. The El Camino Real scripts are Peabody's narrations written to accompany his slide lectures. The materials collected by Robert Weinstein include autobiographical and biographical material on Peabody; notes and photocopies created by Weinstein; an essay on Peabody; letters to and from Weinstein; and some of Peabody's lecture scripts.
Series III.