George Peabody Library
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The George Peabody Library is connected to Johns Hopkins University, focused on research into the 19th century. It was formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of music in the City of Baltimore,
Interior of the George Peabody Library
George Peabody Library at night during an Art+Feminism event
Johns Hopkins' Historic Dome panoramio
George Peabody
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George Peabody was an American financier and philanthropist. He is often considered the father of modern philanthropy.
George Peabody Library
…of downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The collections are available for use by the general public, in keeping with Baltimore merchant and philanthropist George Peabody's goal to create a library "for the free use of all persons who desire to consult it". The George Peabody Library was funded by George Peabody (1795–1869…
Peabody in c. 1850
Peabody's birthplace, now the George Peabody House Museum, in Peabody, Massachusetts
The Peabody Trust continues to provide cheap housing in central London. This sign marks the Horseferry Road Estate in Westminster.
The first block of Peabody dwellings in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, London. A wood-engraving published in The Illustrated London News in 1863, shortly before the building opened.