Henry G. Peabody Collection of Photographs and Negatives: Finding Aid photCL 478
Finding aid prepared by Sue Luftschein.
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Last updated by Brooke M. Black in October 2024.
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Henry G. Peabody Collection of Photographs and Negatives
Creator:
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951.
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 478
Physical Description:
31.38 Linear Feet
(64 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1859-1993
Date (bulk): 1890s-1900s
Abstract: 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 commerical dealings as both a photographer and seller of
photographic equipment; and contains ephemeral material collected by Peabody throughout his
life.
Language of Material: English.
Advance arrangements for viewing negatives must be made with the Curator of Photographs.
The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader
Services Department.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from
or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The
responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining
necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Henry G. Peabody Collection of Photographs and Negatives. The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Glass plate and film negatives and ledger were donated by Roy Speirs, February 1995. The
photograph albums, prints, and manuscript material were purchased from Mrs. Vivian
Weinstein, September 1995. Additional glass plate negatives were purchased from El Dorado
Books, May 1998.
A preliminary inventory of the negatives and correspondence was produced by Su Kim Chung,
July 1997. From January to March 2007, Sue Luftschein completed the inventory, arranged,
numbered and rehoused the collection, performed preservation photocopying, and created this
finding aid.
All information from Peabody's original envelopes (including negative numbers and original
titles) was retained and transcribed during rehousing.
Physical Characteristics or Technical Requirements
Film negatives (boxes 44-49) are housed in cold storage. Arrangements for viewing glass
plate and film negatives must be made with the Curator of Photographs.
Arrangements for viewing original negative ledgers and the scrapbook must be made with the
Curator of Photographs. Copies of the ledgers are available to be paged out to the Ahmanson
Reading Room.
Henry Greenwood Peabody (1855-1951), photographer, lecturer, and publisher of educational
slides and films, enjoyed a remarkable career spanning nearly sixty years. Peabody produced
thousands of photographs, slides, and films documenting the American landscape, worked in
virtually every photographic process, delivered lectures describing the scenery that he so
lovingly photographed, and published books that visually described the landscapes and
scenery in which he specialized.
Peabody was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of a minister. He attended Washington
University in St. Louis, the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and Dartmouth College, where he
graduated in 1876. It was while a senior at Dartmouth that Peabody first became interested
in photography, producing views of the Dartmouth campus and scenes along the New England
coast.
After graduation, Peabody spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
studying architecture, electricity, and physics. He then went to work briefly as an engineer
for the Western Electric Company in Chicago and New York. In 1879 Peabody set up a studio
with Alexander Hesler in Chicago. While there, he met and married Dora Phelps, and the two
relocated to Boston where Peabody opened a studio in 1886. He specialized in marine,
landscape and architectural photography. He also served as the official photographer for the
Boston and Maine Railroad and the Great Northern Railway, photographed the Americas Cup
races, and published Representative American yachts and The coast of Maine. In 1899, he
traveled to Mexico as photographer to the American Architectural Expedition; his photographs
were published in Spanish-Colonial architecture in Mexico by Sylvester Baxter. Peabody won
numerous awards for his photography.
After Dora's death in 1898, Peabody needed security for his only child Mildred, and
accepted a position with the Detroit Publishing Company, the largest postcard publisher in
the United States. From 1900-1908 he served as field photographer on both the east and west
coasts. Famed landscape photographer and company founder William Henry Jackson selected
Peabody for this position because of the high regard in which he held Peabody's outdoor
work. Because of copyright arragnements, many of the images Peabody created for the Detroit
Publishing Company have been wrongly identified as those of Jackson.
Shortly after joining the Detroit Publishing Company, Peabody relocated with his young
daughter to Pasadena, and his primary focus shifted to the landscape of the American West.
He also traveled to England and France in 1908 to photograph cathedrals and other
architectural monuments for the Horace K. Turner Company of Boston.
From about 1910 to the end of his career, Peabody produced photographs and slides of the
American landscape for educational purposes. He published series of educational lantern and
film slides and educational films (the "Swastika Educational Series") with accompanying
narratives that focused on national parks in the American West. He also delivered
illustrated lectures that covered the Grand Canyon, the California Missions, Yosemite, and
Mexico. By the early 1930s, he was making audio recordings designed to synchronize with the
slide shows; he called these his "talking films" and they were included in his educational
offerings.
Peabody spent his later years selling photographic equipment and photographing the
landscape around his home in the San Gabriel Valley. He died at his home in Glendora,
California, just one month shy of his ninety-sixth birthday. His life, according to one
historian, "embraced the whole cycle of photography from its earliest days as a novelty to
the era when every man could be his own camera expert. He exerted a vital influence on the
profession and on the acceptance of photographs in the public interest. Among critics and
collectors his work stands high in artistic merit" (Ralph W. Andrews, Photographers of the
Frontier West Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1965, p. 169.).
The Peabody Collection consists of 672 glass plate negatives (4 x 5 inch, 5 x 7 inch, and 8
x 10 inch), 1054 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 cards,
cartes-de-visite, stereographs, 8 x 10 inch prints, and large mounted prints), published
works, and manuscript material (ledgers, catalogs, correspondence, and ephemeral materials),
created and collected by Henry G. Peabody, 1859-1993 (bulk 1890s-1900s). The materials
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.
The images of Peabody and his family consist of portraits of Peabody, his wife Dora, and
daughter Mildred; family photographs; and images from family trips. The majority 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 and
other photographers. 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). The family photographs include images of Dora and Mildred in
Massachusetts, and many 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, as is his sailboat, the Venture. Two photograph albums describe a
trip taken by Peabody, his wife, and friends to the north, south, and middle forks of the
King's River circa 1900. Other family images include a group photograph of Peabody's
father's fiftieth Dartmouth reunion and a portrait of Peabody's Aunt Helen.
Peabody's New England photographs consist exclusively of city and landscape views.
Included are stereograph views of Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut and Wellesley
College in Wellesley, Massachusetts; historic sites in and around Boston; the Massachusetts
coast; New Hampshire; the coast of Maine; 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 various mountains, mountain
ranges, glaciers, and lakes in 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.
Peabody's images of the Western United States' national parks and monuments depict
Yellowstone National Park, the Teton Mountains, and Shoshone Canyon and Buffalo Bill Dam;
Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park; the Grand Canyon; Yosemite National Park
and assorted national parks and monuments in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico; Death
Valley; Canyonlands National Park and Glacier National Park; Hoover Dam; the Snake River in
Idaho; Ship's Rock in New Mexico; Monument Valley; and San Xavier del Bac Mission. Some of
the images were produced by Spence Air Photos and Charles F. Lummis.
Views of California include street scenes and buildings in central Los Angeles; Hollywood;
Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley; Long Beach; Avalon Bay; the Mojave Desert; northern
California; Riverside County; the San Bernardino Mountains; San Diego County; San Francisco
and vicinity; Santa Barbara County; Ventura County; the California Missions; and
unidentified California landscapes, residences, and ocean views.
Images of Mexico consist of sights and churches in Mexico City, Zacatecas, Guanajuato,
Taxco, Guadalajara, Vera Cruz, Cordova, Celaya, Cholula, Chapultepec, Puebla, Tepozotlan,
Cuernavaca; Mounts Orizaba and Popocatepetl; and various miscellaneous images. Some of these
were published in Sylvester Baxter's Spanish Colonial architecture in Mexico.
Peabody's European images are primarily in two photograph albums, one of Great Britain,
the second of France and Switzerland. The Great Britain album contains images of London;
Stratford-upon-Avon; and cathedrals in Peterborough, Lincoln, York, and Chester. The France
album contains images of Paris (specifically Notre Dame Cathedral); Chartres, Amiens, and
Rheims cathedrals; and Lucerne and the Swiss Alps.
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.
Peabody's studio work is documented by portraits in boudoir photograph format. These
include portraits of women, men, women and children, and children.
The collection includes photographs of a number of architectural plans and renderings.
These include work by architects Allison and Allison, Buchanan and Brockway, Foss Designing
and Building Company, Hubert Frohman and Harold H. Martin, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Elmer
Grey, Myron Hunt, and Withey and Davis; engineers W.P. Shepherd and Herbert A. Hamm; and
landscape architect Paul G. Thiene.
Other images include plants and animals; images of students at work in a classroom; copies
of daguerrotypes and paintings; and photographs of the Handy Stereopticon.
Peabody's published work is represented by three texts. Picturesque New England, published
by or for the Boston and Maine Railroad, contains photomechanical views of numerous
mountains, lakes, rivers, the seashore, and historic and "picturesque" sites in New England.
The fair city contains 49 original photographs of selected buildings and attractions of the
1893 World's Columbian Exposition "photographed, enlarged and printed by Henry G. Peabody."
Glimpses of the Grand Canyon of Arizona contains text and reproductions of Peabody's
photographs.
The manuscript material 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, such as negative number, size,
title/subject, and copyright date. The negative lists detail negatives for some of the
national parks and monuments in the Western United States, and the Canadian Rockies. The
catalogs were published by Peabody and list the slides (lantern and film), manuals, and
films that made up his Swastika Educational Series. 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 Magazine; 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, 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;
an advertisement and brochure for the sale of Peabody's house at 640 North Prospect
Boulevard, Pasadena; ephemeral materials; 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.
The collection is organized into four series: Series 1. Photographs and negatives; Series
2. Published works; Series 3. Manuscript material; Series 4. Other.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Acoma (N.M.) -- Photographs
Alberta -- Photographs
Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)--Photographs
Altadena (Calif.)--Photographs
Arizona -- Photographs
Avalon (Calif.)--Photographs
Aztec Ruins National Monument (N.M.)--Photographs
Banff National Park (Alta.)--Photographs
Boston (Mass.)--Photographs
British Columbia -- Photographs
Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah)--Photographs
Buffalo Bill Dam (Wyo.)--Photographs
California, Southern -- Description and travel
Canada -- Photographs
Canada, Western -- Photographs
Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)--Photographs
Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.)--Photographs
Canyonlands National Park (Utah)--Photographs
Casa Grande National Monument (Ariz.)--Photographs
Celaya (Guanajuato, Mexico)--Photographs
Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.)--Photographs
Champlain, Lake -- Photographs
Chapultepec (Mexico City, Mexico)--Photographs
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs
Cholula de Rivadabia (Mexico)--Photographs
Coachella Valley (Calif.)--Photographs
Colorado -- Photographs
Cordoba (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)--Photographs
Corona (Calif.)--Photographs
Coronado (Calif.)--Photographs
Crater Lake National Park (Or.)--Photographs
Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho)--Photographs
Cuernavaca (Mexico)--Photographs
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)--Photographs
El Camino Real (Calif.)--Description and travel
El Camino Real (Calif.)--Photographs
France -- Photographs
Franconia Notch State Park (N.H.)--Photographs
Glacier National Park (B.C.)--Photographs
Golden Gate (Calif. : Strait)--Photographs
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Description and travel
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Photographs
Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.)--Photographs
Great Britain -- Photographs
Guadalajara (Mexico)--Photographs
Guanajuato (Mexico)--Photographs
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Photographs
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)--Photographs
Illecillewaet Glacier (B.C.)--Photographs
Imperial Valley (Calif. and Mexico)--Photographs
Kings River (Calif.)--Photographs
La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)--Photographs
Lake Louise (Alta.)--Photographs
London (England)--Photographs
Long Beach (Calif.)--Photographs
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.)--Photographs
Lucerne (Switzerland)--Photographs
Maine -- Photographs
Malletts Bay (Vt. : Bay)--Photographs
Marblehead (Mass.)--Photographs
Mariposa Grove (Calif.)--Photographs
Massachusetts -- Photographs
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--Photographs
Mexico City (Mexico)--Photographs
Mojave Desert (Calif.)--Photographs
Montecito (Calif.)--Photographs
Monterey (Calif.)--Photographs
Monterey Peninsula (Calif.)--Photographs
Montezuma Castle National Monument (Ariz.)--Photographs
Monument Valley (Ariz. and Utah)--Photographs
Mount Rubidoux (Calif.)--Photographs
Mount Sir Donald (B.C.)--Photographs
Muir Woods National Monument (Calif.)--Photographs
Natural Bridges National Monument (Utah)--Photographs
New Hampshire -- Photographs
New Mexico -- Photographs
New York (State)--Photographs
Nordhoff (Calif.)--Photographs
Old Man of the Mountain (N.H.)--Photographs
Oraibi (Ariz.)--Photographs
Orizaba, Pico de (Mexico)--Photographs
Painted Desert (Ariz.)--Photographs
Palm Canyon (Palm Springs, Calif.)--Photographs
Paris (France)--Photographs
Pasadena (Calif.)--Photographs
Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.)--Photographs
Point Lobos State Reserve (Calif.)--Photographs
Point Loma (San Diego, Calif.)--Photographs
Popocatepetl (Mexico)--Photographs
Puebla (Mexico)--Photographs
Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico -- Photographs
Rainbow Bridge National Monument (Utah)--Photographs
Rancho Camulos (Piru, Calif.)--Photographs
Redlands (Calif.)--Photographs
Riverside (Calif.)--Photographs
Riverside County (Calif.)--Photographs
Salton Sea (Calif.)--Photographs
San Bernardino Mountains (Calif.)--Photographs
San Diego (Calif.)--Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
San Gabriel River Valley (Calif.)--Photographs
San Jose (Calif.)--Photographs
Santa Barbara County (Calif.)--Photographs
Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain)--Photographs
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Photographs
Snake River, South Fork (Idaho)--Photographs
Stratford-upon-Avon (England)--Photographs
Switzerland -- Photographs
Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)--Photographs
Taxco de Alarcon (Mexico)--Photographs
Tepoztlan (Mexico)--Photographs
Torrey Pines State Reserve (Calif.)--Photographs
Utah -- Photographs
Ventura County (Calif.)--Photographs
Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)--Photographs
Vermont -- Photographs
Walnut Canyon National Monument (Ariz.)--Photographs
Walpi (Ariz.)--Photographs
White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)--Photographs
Wilson, Mount (Calif. : Mountain)--Photographs
Winnipesaukee, Lake (N.H.)--Photographs
Wyoming -- Photographs
Yellowstone National Park -- Photographs
Yoho National Park (B.C.)--Photographs
York (Me. : Town)--Photographs
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Photographs
Zacatecas (Zacatecas, Mexico)--Photographs
Zion National Park (Utah)--Description and travel
Zion National Park (Utah)--Photographs
Agriculture -- California -- Photographs
Animals -- California -- Photographs
Animals -- Mexico -- Photographs
Animals -- Yellowstone National Park -- Photographs
Architecture -- Designs and plans -- Photographs
Bridges -- California -- Photographs
Bridges -- New England -- Photographs
Business districts -- California -- Los Angeles --
Photographs
Camp sites, facilities, etc.--California -- Mojave Desert --
Photographs
Camp sites, facilities, etc.--Yellowstone National Park --
Photographs
Camp sites, facilities, etc.--Zion National Park --
Photographs
Camps -- Vermont -- Champlain, Lake -- Photographs
Castles -- Great Britain -- Photographs
Cathedrals -- France -- Photographs
Cathedrals -- Great Britain -- Photographs
Cathedrals -- Mexico -- Photographs
Children -- Photographs
Churches -- Mexico -- Photographs
Churches -- California -- Pasadena -- Photographs
Class reunions -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- Photographs
Coastlines -- Massachusetts -- Photographs
Coastlines -- Maine -- Photographs
Dams -- San Gabriel River Valley (Calif.) -- Photographs
Dwellings -- California -- Photographs
Dwellings -- California -- Montecito -- Photographs
Dwellings -- California -- Pasadena -- Photographs
Education -- Photographs
Factories -- California -- Colton -- Photographs
Factories -- California -- Oxnard -- Photographs
Ferries -- New England -- Photographs
Fruit -- Harvesting -- California -- Photographs
Gardens -- California -- Montecito -- Photographs
Gardens -- California -- Pasadena -- Photographs
Geysers -- Yellowstone National Park -- Photographs
Hiking -- California -- Photographs
Hiking -- Canada -- British Columbia -- Photographs
Historic bridges -- California -- Pasadena -- Photographs
Historic buildings -- Massachusetts -- Photographs
Hogans -- Arizona -- Photographs
Horsemanship -- Photographs
Hopi architecture -- Arizona -- Photographs
Hopi baskets -- Photographs
Hopi children -- Photographs
Hopi dance -- Photographs
Hopi Indians -- Photographs
Hopi Indians -- Social life and customs -- Photographs
Hopi pottery -- Photographs
Hot springs -- Yellowstone National Park -- Photographs
Hotels -- New England -- Photographs
Hotels -- California -- Santa Barbara -- Photographs
Indian arts -- North America -- Photographs
Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Photographs
Indians of North America -- Photographs
Landscape -- California -- Photographs
Landscape photography.
Missions -- California -- Photographs
Navajo architecture -- Photographs
Navajo Indians -- Photographs
Nebulae -- Photographs
Orange trees -- California -- Photographs
Orchards -- California -- Photographs
Oil fields -- California -- Summerland -- Photographs
Photography -- Equipment and supplies.
Photography -- Equipment and supplies -- Purchasing.
Photography in education.
Photography -- Prices.
Photography -- Processing.
Photography -- Studios and dark rooms
Photography -- Studios and dark rooms -- Photographs
Plants -- Photographs
Private railroad cars -- Photographs
Projectors.
Projectors -- Photographs
Railroad tunnels -- Canada -- Photographs
Railroads -- California -- Photographs
Railroads -- Canada -- Photographs
Railroads -- New England -- Photographs
Recreation -- Vermont -- Champlain, Lake -- Photographs
Redwoods -- California -- Photographs
Rivers -- California -- Photographs
Rivers -- New England -- Photographs
Sailboats -- New England -- Photographs
Selling -- Photography -- Equipment and supplies.
Snake dance -- Arizona -- Photographs
Stagecoaches -- Yosemite National Park -- Photographs
Statues -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Photographs
Telescopes -- Wilson, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) --
Photographs
Tourism -- Photographs
Trees -- Photographs
Tohono O'odham Indians -- Photographs
Waterfalls -- California -- Photographs
Wineries -- California -- Photographs
Yachting -- New England -- Photographs
Books
Boudoir photographs
Brochures
Cartes-de-visites.
Catalogs
Correspondence
Ephemera
Ledgers
Letters
Negatives
Notes
Photograph albums
Photographs
Portraits
Scrapbooks
Stereographs
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Statues -- Photographs
Frohman, Philip Hubert, 1887-1972
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924
Grey, Elmer, 1871-1962
Hamm, Herbert A., engineer.
Hancock, John, 1737-1793 -- Homes and haunts --
Photographs
Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895
Hunt, Myron, 1868-1952
Hunt, Myron, 1868-1952 -- Homes and haunts -- Photographs
Longpre, Paul de, 1855-1911 -- Homes and haunts --
Photographs
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928
Martin, Harold H., b. 1879
Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951 -- Homes and haunts --
Photographs
Revere, Paul, 1735-1818 -- Homes and haunts -- Photographs
Shepherd, W.P., engineer.
Thiene, Paul G., 1880-1971
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Homes and haunts --
Photographs
Allison and Allison, architects.
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Bell and Howell Co.
Boston and Maine Railroad.
Buchanan and Brockway, architects.
California Institute of Technology -- Photographs
Cathedrale d'Amiens -- Photographs
Cathedrale de Chartres -- Photographs
Chester Cathedral -- Photographs
Dartmouth College.
Detroit Publishing Co.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc.
Estudillo House (San Diego, Calif.) -- Photographs
Foss Designing and Building Company
Hancock-Clarke House (Lexington, Mass.) -- Photographs
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery -- Photographs
Hollywood Hotel (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) --
Photographs
Hotel Green (Pasadena, Calif.) -- Photographs
Hotel Virginia (Long Beach, Calif.) -- Photographs
Ideal Pictures Corporation(Chicago, Ill.).
Lincoln Cathedral -- Photographs
Lick Observatory -- Photographs
Maryland Hotel (Pasadena, Calif.) -- Photographs
Mission Inn -- Photographs
Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel, Calif.) --
Photographs
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.) --
Photographs
Mission San Juan Capistrano -- Photographs
Mission San Miguel Arcangel (San Miguel, Calif.) --
Photographs
Mission San Xavier del Bac (Tucson, Ariz.) -- Photographs
Mount Wilson Observatory -- Photographs
National Geographic Society (U.S.).
Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) -- Photographs
Notre-Dame de Reims (Cathedral) -- Photographs
Orchard House Museum (Concord, Mass.) -- Photographs
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco,
Calif.) -- Photographs
Peterborough Cathedral -- Photographs
Rosemary Hall (Greenwich, Conn.) -- Photographs
San Antonio de Padua (Mission) -- Photographs
San Buenaventura Mission -- Photographs
San Fernando, Rey de Espana (Mission : San Fernando, Calif.) --
Photographs
San Francisco de Asis Mission (San Francisco, Calif.) --
Photographs
San Juan Bautista (Mission : San Juan Bautista, Calif.) --
Photographs
San Luis Rey Mission (Calif.) -- Photographs
Santa Ines Mission (Solvang, Calif.) -- Photographs
Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.) -- Photographs
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
Society for Visual Education.
Spence Air Photos (Firm).
Stanford University -- Photographs
Swastika Educational Series.
Tournament of Roses -- Photographs
University of California, Berkeley -- Photographs
Wellesley College -- Photographs
Westminster Abbey -- Photographs
Withey and Davis, architects.
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) --
Photographs
York Minster -- Photographs
Photographs and Negatives. Series I. 1884-1940s (bulk 1890s-1900s
Physical Description:
24.12 Linear Feet
(48 boxes,
These photographs and negatives are arranged chronologically and by subject: family
portraits and photographs; New England and the East Coast; the Canadian Rockies;
national parks and monuments of the United States; California; Mexico; Europe; Native
Americans; studio portraits; architectural plans and renderings; plants and animals; and
miscellaneous images (including unidentified landscapes). Within each subject area, the
images are arranged by format: photograph albums (if any are present), loose photographs
(if present), and negatives. The negatives are arranged by Peabody's negative number
(where applicable) and by format (glass plates followed by film). Boxes 1-5 house
prints; 6-17 house photograph albums; 18-20 house 4 x 5 inch glass plate negatives;
21-22 house 5 x 7 inch glass plate negatives; 23-43 house 8 x 10 inch glass plate
negatives and positives; 44-45 house 4 x 5 inch film negatives; 46-48 house 5 x 7 inch
film negatives, transparencies, and stereo negatives; and 49 houses 8 x 10 inch film
negatives.
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.
Physical Characteristics or Technical Requirements
The King's Canyon albums are extremely fragile. Arrangements for viewing must be made
with the Curator of Photographs.
Film negatives are housed in cold storage. Arrangements for viewing glass plate and
film negatives must be made with the Curator of Photographs.
Family portraits and photographs
Box 1, Item 1-2
Box 53, Item 1534
Box 3, Item 5-6
Box 5, Item 11
Box 24, Item 930
Box 5, Item 12
Box 1, Item 13-31
Box 3, Item 32
Box 1, Item 33
Box 18, Item 710-711
Box 1, Item 34-39
Box 18, Item 712-714
Box 51, Item 1348-1349
Box 53, Item 1535-1546
Box 51, Item 1350-1351
Box 53, Item 1547-1548
Box 3, Item 40-41
Box 6, Item Album 1
"Cruise of the Venture," 1884
Box 6, Item Album 2
Box 7, Item Album 3
"Volume 1, Trip to King's River Canyon, South Fork," July 4, 1900
Box 7, Item Album 4
Box 5, Item 42
Box 24, Item 931
Box 18, Item 715
Box 3, Item 43-47
New England and East Coast views
Box 1, Item 48
Box 1, Item 49-52
Box 1, Item 53-54
Box 18, Item 716-718
Box 21, Item 851-853
Box 24, Item 932-935
Box 53, Item 1549
Box 24, Item 936
Box 21, Item 854-855
Box 3, Item 57-60
Box 3, Item 61-80
Box 3, Item 106
Box 18, Item 719
Box 21, Item 856-864
Box 24, Item 937-946
Box 25, Item 947-958.1
Box 53, Item 1550-1557
Box 5, Item 124
Box 18, Item 720-721
Box 21, Item 865
Box 25, Item 959-960
Box 3, Item 128-148
Box 3, Item 149-152
Box 53, Item 1562-1565
Box 25, Item 961
Box 26, Item 962-963
Box 3, Item 153-154
Box 1, Item 155-195
Box 53, Item 1566-1569
Box 26, Item 964-968
Box 26, Item 970-971
Box 18, Item 726-729
Box 26, Item 972-973
Box 18, Item 730-732
Box 26, Item 974-975
Box 18, Item 736-750
Box 26, Item 976-978
Box 27, Item 979-980
Box 53, Item 1570-1573
Box 3, Item 217-220
Box 27, Item 981
Box 27, Item 982
Box 3, Item 224-225
Box 27, Item 983-987
Box 18, Item 755-757
Box 27, Item 988-990
Box 19, Item 762-768
Box 21, Item 866
Box 53, Item 1574
Box 19, Item 769-770
Box 19, Item 772
Box 27, Item 991
Box 53, Item 1575-1578
Box 53, Item 1579-1595
Box 3, Item 235-237
Box 19, Item 785-787
Box 51, Item 1358-1359
Box 53, Item 1596-1597
Box 19, Item 788-789
Box 53, Item 1598
Box 53, Item 1599-1606
Box 19, Item 792-796
Box 27, Item 992-995
Box 19, Item 797-802
Box 28, Item 996
Box 19, Item 804-805
Box 28, Item 997
Box 28, Item 998-1001
Box 19, Item 807-809
Box 19, Item 810-814
Box 20, Item 815-816
Box 3, Item 247-256
Box 20, Item 817-821
Box 28, Item 1002-1003
Box 51, Item 1360
Box 53, Item 1609-1611
Yellowstone National Park
Box 8, Item Album 5
Box 8, Item Album 6
Box 9, Item Album 7
Box 9, Item Album 8
Box 10, Item Album 9
Box 10, Item Album 10
Box 53, Item 1612-1612 var.
2
Box 20, Item 822-823
Box 53, Item 1613-1630
Box 4, Item 258-260
Box 28, Item 1004
Box 53, Item 1631-1644
Box 56, Item 2247-2248
Box 4, Item 261-266
Box 20, Item 824-825
Box 28, Item 1005-1007
Box 51, Item 1361-1364
Box 53, Item 1645-1697
Box 53, Item 1702-1704
Box 53, Item 1705-1710
Box 53, Item 1711-1712
Box 53, Item 1714-1718
Box 53, Item 1719-1725
Box 53, Item 1726-1731
Box 53, Item 1732
Box 53, Item 1733-1734
Box 53, Item 1735
Box 53, Item 1736
Box 53, Item 1737
Box 53, Item 1738
Box 53, Item 1744-1747
Zion National Park/Bryce Canyon National Park
Box 11, Item Album 11
Box 11, Item Album 12
Box 12, Item Album 13
Box 12, Item Album 14
Box 12, Item Album 15
Box 53, Item 1749-1791
Box 54, Item 1792-1811
Box 54, Item 1812-1875
Grand Canyon
Box 13, Item Album 16
Box 4, Item 279-341
Box 20, Item 826
Box 28, Item 1008-1010
Box 29, Item 1011-1013
Box 29, Item 1014-1027
Box 30, Item 1028-1029.1
Box 30, Item 1030-1041
Box 54, Item 1876-1910
Box 56, Item 2249
Yosemite National Park
Box 13, Item Album 17
Box 1, Item 342-358
Box 4, Item 359-361
Box 20, Item 827-828
Box 21, Item 868-872.1
Box 31, Item 1042-1049
Yosemite National Park 1899, 1901, undated
Physical Description: [8 x 10 inch glass positives; 8
x 10 inch glass plate negative.]
[Yosemite Valley; Bridal Veil Falls; Merced River; El Capitan; Three Brothers;
Vernal Falls; North Dome; Nevada Falls; Yosemite Falls; the High Sierras from
Glacier Point; Peabody photographing from Glacier Point; Mirror Lake; stagecoach;
map of Yosemite Valley drawn by Peabody; Half Dome; Agassiz Column; Tenaya Canyon
and South Dome; Mariposa Grove; Native Americans.]
Box 31, Item 1050-1055
Yosemite National Park 1899, 1901, undated
Physical Description: [8 x 10 inch glass
positives.]
[Yosemite Valley; Bridal Veil Falls; Merced River; El Capitan; Three Brothers;
Vernal Falls; North Dome; Nevada Falls; Yosemite Falls; the High Sierras from
Glacier Point; Peabody photographing from Glacier Point; Mirror Lake; stagecoach;
map of Yosemite Valley drawn by Peabody; Half Dome; Agassiz Column; Tenaya Canyon
and South Dome; Mariposa Grove; Native Americans.]
Box 54, Item 1911-1949
Yosemite National Park 1901, undated
Physical Description: [5 x 7 inch film negatives; 5 x
7 inch transparency; stereo negatives.]
[Yosemite Valley; Bridal Veil Falls; Merced River; El Capitan; Three Brothers;
Vernal Falls; North Dome; Nevada Falls; Yosemite Falls; the High Sierras from
Glacier Point; Peabody photographing from Glacier Point; map of Yosemite Valley
drawn by Peabody; Half Dome; Agassiz Column; Tenaya Canyon and South Dome; Mariposa
Grove.]
Assorted National Parks and Monuments
Box 14, Item Album 18
Box 54, Item 1950-1962
Box 14, Item Album 19
"National Monuments of Desert and Mesa," undated
Physical Description: [50 numbered photographs with
printed captions.]
[Includes printed map of the four corners area drawn by Peabody; Rainbow Natural
Bridge, Utah; Natural Bridges National Monument; Goblet of Venus near Blanding,
Utah; Chaco Canyon; Canyon del Muerto; Canyon de Chelly; Laguna Pueblo; La Mesa
Encantada; Acoma; Native Americans; Petrified Forest; Painted Desert; meteorite
crater near Winslow, Arizona (aerial view); giant Saguara cactus; Walnut Canyon;
Grand Canyon.]
Box 14, Item Album 20
"National Monuments of Desert and Mesa," undated
Box 15, Item Album 21
Box 54, Item 1963
Box 54, Item 1964-1967
Box 54, Item 1968-1978
Box 1, Item 362
Box 54, Item 1979-1980
Box 54, Item 1981-1983
Box 54, Item 1984-1991
Box 21, Item 873-876
Box 54, Item 1992-2002
Box 54, Item 2008-2009
Box 54, Item 2010
Box 1, Item 366-377
Box 54, Item 2011-2017
Box 51, Item 1366-1368
Box 54, Item 2018
Box 1, Item 380.1
Box 54, Item 2019-2039
Box 31, Item 1056
Box 15, Item Album 22
Box 54, Item 2040-2046
Box 31, Item 1057-1060
Box 32, Item 1061
Box 32, Item 1062
Box 54, Item 2047-2048
Western United States
Arizona
Box 55, Item 2060-2062
Box 4, Item 385-389
Box 4, Item 392
Box 55, Item 2063-2066
Box 32, Item 1063
Box 55, Item 2067-2091
Hopi Indians 1898, 1901, undated
Physical Description: [5 x 7 inch film negatives; 5 x
7 inch transparencies.]
[Hopi cornfield; map of "Hopi-land" drawn by Peabody; First Mesa; Walpi; Hopi
maidens; Hopi hair dressing; basket maker; snake dance at Oraibi; snake dance at
Walpi; Walpi Indians; Oraibi; Hopi pottery maker; key logs of the tree ring
calendar.]
Box 4, Item 394-395
Box 32, Item 1064
Box 4, Item 396
Photograph of artifacts collected at top of Katzimo, or Enchanted Mesa June 22, 1898
California
Los Angeles County
Central Los Angeles
Box 32, Item 1066-1071
Box 32, Item 1072-1075
Box 32, Item 1076-1080
Hollywood
Box 33, Item 1082-1084
Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley
Box 21, Item 877-880
Box 33, Item 1085
Box 33, Item 1086-1087
Box 55, Item 2092
Box 55, Item 2093
Box 33, Item 1090-1091
Box 33, Item 1092-1094
Box 34, Item 1095
Box 34, Item 1096-1099
Box 4, Item 399
Box 21, Item 881-882
Box 34, Item 1101
Box 34, Item 1102-1103
Box 34, Item 1104
Box 51, Item 1369-1408
Box 34, Item 1105-1106
Box 55, Item 2094
Box 56, Item 2250
Box 20, Item 829
Box 4, Item 400
Box 34, Item 1108-1112
Box 35, Item 1113-1116
Box 51, Item 1409-1412
Box 55, Item 2095-2102
Box 35, Item 1117-1119
Box 35, Item 1120
Box 55, Item 2103-2105
Long Beach
Box 35, Item 1122
Box 35, Item 1123
Box 55, Item 2106-2109
Northern California
Box 35, Item 1124-1131
Box 36, Item 1132-1141
Box 36, Item 1143
Box 37, Item 1144-1145
Box 55, Item 2113
Box 37, Item 1147-1148
Box 55, Item 2114-2115
Box 55, Item 2116-2118
Riverside County
Box 37, Item 1149-1152
Box 37, Item 1153-1158
Box 37, Item 1159-1160
Box 38, Item 1161-1162
Box 38, Item 1163-1164
Box 55, Item 2119-2132
Box 38, Item 1165
Box 38, Item 1166
San Bernardino County
Box 38, Item 1167
Box 38, Item 1168
San Diego County
Box 38, Item 1169
Box 38, Item 1170-1172
Box 22, Item 892
Box 22, Item 893-895
Box 38, Item 1173
Box 22, Item 899
San Francisco and vicinity
Box 4, Item 408-409
Box 22, Item 899.1
Box 55, Item 2139
Box 38, Item 1174-1174.1
Box 22, Item 900
Box 38, Item 1175
Box 55, Item 2140-2150
Box 22, Item 901-903
Box 51, Item 1419-1478
Box 52, Item 1479-1516
Box 22, Item 903.1-903.2
Box 23, Item 903.3
Box 55, Item 2151
Box 52, Item 1517-1518
Box 52, Item 1519-1523
Box 38, Item 1176
Box 52, Item 1524-1526
Box 55, Item 2152-2170
Santa Barbara County
Box 39, Item 1177-1178
Box 39, Item 1179-1180
Box 39, Item 1181-1184
Box 39, Item 1185-1188
Box 39, Item 1189-1194
Box 20, Item 830
Box 40, Item 1194.1
Ventura County
Box 20, Item 831-833
Box 55, Item 2172-2175
Box 40, Item 1195
Box 40, Item 1196
Box 40, Item 1197
Box 4, Item 413-414
Box 1, Item 415-458
Box 20, Item 834
Box 23, Item 904-908
Box 55, Item 2176-2199
California Missions undated
Physical Description: [5 x 7 inch film negatives; 5 x
7 inch transparencies; stereo negatives.]
[San Luis Rey; San Juan Capistrano; San Gabriel; San Fernando; San Buenaventura;
map of California Missions; Santa Ines; San Antonio de Padua; Carmel; Mission
Dolores; San Juan Bautista; San Miguel.]
[Numbers 2120, 2125 possibly by William Henry Jackson.]
Miscellaneous California scenes
Box 4, Item 459-463
Box 1, Item 464-500
Box 1, Item 501-540
"Southern California, Part II" undated
Physical Description: [Prints.]
[Peabody photo set. Includes San Bernardino Mountains; citrus groves and citrus
industry; first California orange tree; Huntington Library; Colonel Rust and the
Gold of Ophir rosebush; hummingbirds; California Institute of Technology; San
Gabriel Valley; Pasadena; Mount Wilson Observatory. Many images are duplicated
elsewhere in the collection.]
[See also typed manuscript for accompanying lecture, Box 53, folder 17.]
Box 40, Item 1198-1207
Box 41, Item 1208-1212
Box 41, Item 1213-1216
Box 41, Item 1217-1223
Box 42, Item 1224-1230
Box 42, Item 1231
Box 42, Item 1232
Box 42, Item 1233-1234
Box 42, Item 1235-1240
Mexico
Box 1, Item 545-572
Box 1, Item 573-597
Box 4, Item 598-602
Box 20, Item 835-848
Box 23, Item 909-913
Box 43, Item 1242-1245.1
Box 52, Item 1527-1533
Box 55, Item 2200-2232
Europe
Box 16, Item Album 23
"Great Britain," 1908
Physical Description: [104 photographs with
hand-written captions.]
[London; Stratford-on-Avon; Peterborough Cathedral; Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln;
York Minster and York; Chester Cathedral and Chester; Hawarden Castle; Dove Cottage
and Rydal Mount (homes of Wordsworth); Dumfries, Sweetheart Abbey; Dumfries,
Caerlaverock Castle.]
Box 4, Item 603
Box 43, Item 1246-1246.1
Box 17, Item Album 24
Portraits
Box 1, Item 604-619
Box 1, Item 620-630
Box 2, Item 631-634
Box 2, Item 635-645
Box 4, Item 646-647
Box 44, Item 1247-1247.1
Box 44, Item 1248-1249
Architectural plans and renderings
Box 44, Item 1250-1255
Box 44, Item 1256
Box 44, Item 1257-1258
Box 44, Item 1259
Box 45, Item 1260-1262
Box 45, Item 1263-1264
Hubert Frohman and Harold H. Martin, Architects undated
Box 45, Item 1265-1266
Hubert Frohman and Harold H. Martin, Architects undated
Box 45, Item 1267-1271
Box 45, Item 1272
Box 45, Item 1273
Myron Hunt, Architect undated
Box 46, Item 1274-1280
Myron Hunt, Architect undated
Box 46, Item 1281-1284
Box 46, Item 1285
Box 46, Item 1286
Box 46, Item 1287-1288
Box 47, Item 1289-1291
Box 47, Item 1292-1301
Plants and animals
Box 2, Item 648-654
Box 55, Item 2233-2240
Box 20, Item 849
Box 23, Item 928.1-928.2
Box 47, Item 1305-1309
Box 48, Item 1310-1311
Box 55, Item 2241-2242
Miscellaneous
Box 2, Item 658-663
Box 5, Item 664
Box 4, Item 665-673
Box 4, Item 696-701
Box 4, Item 702-704
Box 20, Item 850
Box 23, Item 928.3
Box 48, Item 1312-1320.1
Box 48, Item 1321-1323
Box 49, Item 1324-1325
Box 49, Item 1326-1335
Box 49, Item 1336-1340
Box 49, Item 1341
Box 50, Item 1342-1343
Box 4, Item 707-709
Box 55, Item 2244-2246
Box 23, Item 929
Box 50, Item 1344-1347
Box 56, Item 2253
Published works. Series II. ca. 1890-1902
Physical Description:
2.54 Linear Feet
(3 boxes,
These works are arranged chronologically.
Three published volumes of photographs by Peabody. Picturesque New England was
published by or for the Boston and Maine Railroad, and contains photomechanical views of
numerous mountains, lakes, rivers, the seashore, and historic and "picturesque" sites in
New England. Prints and original negatives for many of its illustrations can be found in
Series I. The fair city contains 49 views (original photographs) of selected buildings
and attractions of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition "photographed, enlarged and
printed by Henry G. Peabody." Glimpses of the Grand Canyon of Arizona contains text and
reproductions of Peabody's photographs. Prints and original negatives for many of its
illustrations can be found in Series I.
Box 57
Picturesque New England (Boston and Maine Railroad, ca. 1890)
Box 58
The fair city: A portfolio of fifty platinotype views of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
Box 59
Glimpses of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, by Henry G. Peabody (Kansas City: Fred Harvey, 1902)
Manuscript Material. Series III. 1859-1993
Physical Description:
5.2 Linear Feet
(7 boxes,
This material is organized into five subseries:
Subseries III.A: Ledgers and Negative Lists;
Subseries III.B. Swastika Education Series Catalogs;
Subseries III.C. Correspondence;
Subseries III.D. Ephemera;
Subseries III.E. Material collected by Robert Weinstein.
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.
Ledgers and Negative Lists. <emph render="bold">Subseries III.A.</emph> 1887-1907 and undated
Physical Description:
0.82 Linear Feet
(2 boxes,
The ledgers and negative lists are arranged chronologically.
Four hand-written ledgers and ten typed negative lists (some in duplicate) recording
Peabody's negatives. Ledger 1 (fragment) details negatives arranged by lecture: "In
the Footsteps of Cortes" (with 54 entries); "A Tour of the White Mountains" (with 74
entries); "Around Historical Boston" (with 72 entries); "Seashore of New England"
(with 72 entries); "Grand Canyon of Arizona" (with 73 entries). Ledger 2 details
negatives 1101-3303. Ledger 3 details negatives 1101-3260 (pages 1-59), with gaps;
negatives 86-282 (pages 60-66), with gaps; negatives 1101-2893 (pages 75-95), with
significant gaps; negatives 1703-3291 (pages 96-103), with significant gaps. Ledger 4
details negatives 1373-4883.
Ledger 1 lists negative number, size, title/subject, style (colored or plain), and
copyright date. Ledger 2 lists negative number, title/subject, size/type, and
copyright date. Ledger 3 list negative number, title/subject, and size/type, and
ledger 4 lists negative number and title/subject.
The negative lists detail 5 x 7 inch negatives (for Zion National Park, Yellowstone
National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Crater Lake
National Park, eastern approach to Yellowstone Park from Cody, Wyoming, Grand Teton
National Park, and Yosemite National Park), 8 x 10 inch negatives (for the Canadian
Alps), and 4 x 5 inch negatives (for the Canadian Alps), and thus duplicate some of
the information in the ledgers.
Physical Characteristics or Technical Requirements
Ledgers 2, 3, and 4 are fragile. Please refer to the photocopies for reference.
Box 62
Ledger 2 1894-1907
Box 62
Ledger 3 undated
Box 62
Ledger 4 undated
Swastika Education Series Catalogs. <emph render="bold">Subseries III.B.</emph> 1935 and undated
Physical Description: (1 folder)
These catalogs are arranged by subject.
Three catalogs published by Peabody and listing slides (lantern and film), manuals,
and films that make up his Swastika Educational 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. There are slight variations in content in each
catalog, but in general they contain the same information.
See also Peabody's scrapbook (Box 55) for additional Swastika catalogs.
Box 60, Folder 3
Box 60, Folder 3
Box 60, Folder 3
Correspondence. <emph render="bold">Subseries III.C.</emph> 1909-1950 bulk 1930s-1940s
Physical Description:
0.63 Linear Feet
(2 boxes,
This material is arranged alphabetically.
The Peabody Collection correspondence, 1909-1950, 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. Of particular note are the correspondence between Peabody and the Society
of the Preservation of New England Antiquities in regard to the sale of some of
Peabody's albums; the correspondence between Peabody and the Society for Visual
Education, a distributor of Peabody's slides and films; and letters from Peabody and
attorney Carl Waldron in regard to a claim against Ideal Pictures, a distributor of
Peabody's educational slides and films.
Box 60, Folder 4
A 1942-1949
Box 60, Folder 5
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway 1929, 1937, 1939
Box 60, Folder 6
B 1937, 1940, 1949-1950
Box 60, Folder 7
Bell and Howell 1929-1945
Box 60, Folder 8
C 1929-1951
Box 60, Folder 9
D 1943-1944, 1947-1949
Box 60, Folder 10
Dartmouth College 1939-1943, 1948-1950
Box 60, Folder 11
E-F 1934, 1941-1949
Box 60, Folder 12
G 1944-1946, 1949-1950
Box 60, Folder 13
H-I 1930-1949
Box 60, Folder 14
J-L 1929-1931, 1938-1939, 1941, 1947-1948
Box 60, Folder 15
M-O 1927-1932, 1936-1937, 1940-1950
Box 60, Folder 16
P-Q 1930, 1935, 1944-1946, 1950
Box 60, Folder 17
R 1909, 1948-1949
Box 60, Folder 18
S-T 1929-1950
Box 60, Folder 19
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities 1941-1947
Box 60, Folder 20
Society for Visual Education 1928-1936
Box 61, Folder 1
Society for Visual Education 1937-1939
Box 61, Folder 2
Society for Visual Education 1940-1942
Box 61, Folder 3
Society for Visual Education 1943-1950
Box 61, Folder 4
U-W 1917, 1929, 1936-1949
Box 61, Folder 5
Carl A. Waldron [attorney] 1948-1949
Box 61, Folder 6
Western College (Oxford, Ohio) 1942-1944, 1947
Box 61, Folder 7
Y-Z 1944-1945, 1949
Box 61, Folder 8
Miscellaneous fragments undated
Ephemera. <emph render="bold">Subseries III.D.</emph> 1872-1948
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
(1 box and 1 folder)
The ephemera consists of a 135 page scrapbook created by Henry Peabody, 1872-1948, a
brochure about the Grand Canyon published by Gates Tours, and scripts for Peabody's
lectures on El Camino Real. The scrapbook's ephemeral items consist of programs (for
commencement exercises and other events) from the Pennsylvania Military Academy and
Dartmouth College; yachting and sailing ephemera; mementoes from Peabody's childhood;
passes for railroads and exhibitions; Peabody's business cards; catalogues of
Peabody's work, published both privately (by Peabody) and commercially (by the Society
for Visual Education and the Soule Photographic Company); memoranda and telegrams;
tickets from trips; the slide narration (printed version) for Peabody's lecture on
Zion National Park; a floor plan of his Boylston Street (Boston) studio (drawn by
Peabody?); subscription announcements for Peabody's publications; price lists for
Peabody's services and for photographic equipment; Peabody lecture programs; Peabody's
marriage certificate; a program for Dora Peabody's memorial; an advertisement and
brochure for the sale of 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-colord 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.
Physical Characteristics or Technical Requirements
The scrapbook is extremely fragile. Arrangements for viewing must be made with the
Curator of Photographs.
Box 63
Peabody Scrapbook 1872-1948
Box 61, Folder 9
What the Tourists Say About the Grand Canyon of Arizona undated
Box 61, Folder 10
Material collected by Robert Weinstein. <emph render="bold">Subseries III.E.</emph> 1859-1993
Physical Description:
0.21 Linear Feet
(1 box,
These materials are arranged by type.
The materials collected by Robert Weinstein include autobiographical and biographical
material on Peabody; notes and photocopies; an essay on Peabody (presumably by
Weinstein); letters; and some of Peabody's lecture scripts. The autobiography is a
copy of the original in the International Museum of Photography, and is missing pages
20-24. The biographical material consists of excerpts of letters by Peabody copied by
Weinstein; short articles from various publications on Peabody; and a biographical
chronology Peabody created for Dartmouth. The notes are presumably those taken by
Weinstein, and are accompanied by two photocopies:
Log Book of
Car 159
(by Fred B. Lichtman), and the 1893 supplement to
Representative American Yachts (by Peabody). The scripts are
the narrations written by Peabody to accompany his slide lectures on El Camino Real,
Southern California, the Grand Canyon, and Zion National Park; each is annotated with
slide numbers. The letters include one addressed to Weinstein from Mrs. Leonard
(Mildred Peabody) Chapman in regard to Peabody's work with the Los Angeles County
Board of Education and reproductions of his work in a book on A.C. Vroman; a copy of a
letter written to Peabody by his Aunt Helen, February 8, 1859; a letter addressed to
Weinstein from Dick Bartlett, Florida State University, in regard to reproductions of
Peabody's work; several letters addressed to Robert Weinstein from various individuals
at the Western College Alumnae Association in regard to a proposed article on Peabody
by Weinstein; a letter from the Society for the Preservation of New England
Antiquities in regard to both their, and Weinstein's, work on Peabody; and a letter
addressed to Weinstein from John Jezierski in regard to an essay on Peabody.
Box 61, Folder 11
Box 61, Folder 12
Peabody biographical information 1923, 1940-1949, 1951, undated
Box 61, Folder 13
Notes and photocopies undated
Box 61, Folder 14
[Copy of Weinstein essay on Peabody?] ca. 1980?
Box 61, Folder 15
Box 61, Folder 16
Box 61, Folder 17
Script: Southern California, Part II undated
Box 61, Folder 18
Script: Grand Canyon National Park undated
Box 61, Folder 19
Script: Zion National Park undated
Box 61, Folder 20
Letters 1859, 1967, 1981-1982, 1993, undated
Other 1900-1910
Box 64
Framed photograph of Henry G. Peabody on horseback in the desert undated