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George Peabody Library
The George Peabody Library, formerly known as the Library of the Peabody Institute, is the 19th-century research library of The Johns Hopkins University. It is located on the Peabody campus at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland. The collections are available for use by the general public, in keeping with the philanthropist George Peabody's goal to create a library "for the free use of all persons who desire to consult it."〔George Peabody, (Founding Letter ), February 12, 1857, ''American Journal of Education'' 3 (1857), 226.〕
==History==
The Peabody Institute Library was funded by the good graces of George Peabody. Peabody, having become a wealthy man in Baltimore through commerce during the 1810s and 20s, "gave $300,000 as a beginning sum for the Peabody Institute" in February 1857.〔Franklin Parker.George Peabody and Maryland. Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 37, No. 3. (Nov., 1959), pp. 150-157.〕 Peabody dedicated the Institute to the citizens of Baltimore in appreciation of their kindness and hospitality. The Institute was designed to be a cultural center for Baltimore, with plans for an art gallery and music school, as well as a public library.〔Dorsey, John. Mr. Peabody's Library. Baltimore, 1978. 4-5〕 The Peabody Institute west wing opened in 1866 as Mr. Peabody was greeted by thousands of Baltimore City Public School children as he stood on the steps of his building overlooking the circle at the Washington Monument in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood and the current library structure in the east wing was designed in the same identical style by the architect Edmund Lind and opened to the public in 1878. The library remained part of the Peabody Institute until 1967, when it was transferred to the City of Baltimore and became a department in the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the City and State's free public library which had been founded and endowed in 1882-86 by George Peabody's friend and fellow Bay Stater, Enoch Pratt, (1808-1896). It was transferred to The Johns Hopkins University in 1982 and became part of the Eisenhower Library's Special Collections department and part of the Sheridan Libraries system.
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