George Foster Peabody family collection, 1894-1951

Summary

Creator:

Unknown

Date:

1894-1951

Extent:

1 Linear Feet 1 box

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

George Foster Peabody family collection, ms 1144, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of mainly unidentified photographs and a scrapbook, including some photographs of the George Foster Peabody family. Papers transferred from the Georgia Room Vertical files (in 1984) include correspondence from George Foster Peabody; memorial programs for Katrina Trask, and Elvira Canfield Peabody; and photographs.

Biographical / historical:

George Foster Peabody, born in 1852 in Columbus, Georgia, moved with his family to New York after the Civil War. Largely self-educated, Peabody became a successful banker and supporter of humanitarian causes, especially education. Among other things, he helped finance a library, a forestry school, and a classroom building at the University of Georgia and was the school's first non-Georgia-resident trustee. In appreciation, the University awarded him an honorary degree and named the new broadcasting award for him.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Scrapbooks.
Families -- Photographs
Photographs.

Names:

Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938

Preferred citation:

George Foster Peabody family collection, ms 1144, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.