Henry G. Peabody photographic collection, 1880s-1900s
Description:
The Henry G. Peabody Photographic Collection contains more than 250 of his original prints. His long and distinguished career as a view photographer began in Boston in the 1880s, when for a short period he specialized in marine views. Peabody and Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographed the same races in the early 1890s, though Peabody's work has a somewhat more calculated "artistic quality."Only a few other institutions are known to possess sizable numbers of Peabody's marine views. These include: the Peabody-Essex Museum of Salem, Massachusetts; the Library of Congress; and Robert Weintstein, a photographic historian in Los Angeles, California. Historic New England does not own any of the original glass plate negatives from which the Peabody photographs were made. However, it does hold much additional work by Peabody, reflecting his later career as a "view photographer" with the Detroit Publishing Company. These are noted in the Index to Photograph Albums. Source: Campbell, Joan. Finding Aid to the Henry G. Peabody Collection, 1982; Guide to the Library and Archives, 12-13.
