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George Peabody. George Peabody provided benefactions of well over $8 million ($240,000,000 in 2023 dollars [19]), most of them in his lifetime. Some of the organizations which have been confirmed as recipients of Peabody's funds includ: 1852, The Peabody Institute (now the Peabody Institute Library), [20] Peabody, Mass: $217,000
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums. Foreword by William T. Alderson. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, in cooperation with the American Association for State and Local History. ISBN 978-0-7619-9155-7. OCLC 33983419. Dexter, Ralph W. (May 1965). "Contributions of Frederic Ward Putnam to Ohio Archaeology".
The George Peabody House Museum is a historic house museum at 205 Washington Street in Peabody, Massachusetts. It is dedicated to the life and deeds of 19th century U.S. entrepreneur, philanthropist, and namesake of the city, George Peabody. The museum shares its location with the Peabody Leather Museum.
The Peabody Museum can refer to: George Peabody House Museum, a historic house museum in Peabody, Massachusetts; Peabody Essex Museum, an art museum in Salem, Massachusetts; Peabody Historical Library Museum in Peabody, Kansas; Peabody Leather Museum in Peabody, Massachusetts; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas .
Field Museum of Natural History: Chicago: Illinois: USA: May represent a novel species within Apatosaurus: Skeleton, mounted (copy) Barosaurus lentus: AMNH 6341 (copy) American Museum of Natural History: New York: New York: USA: Skeletal elements, unmounted Brachiosaurus altithorax: FMNH P 25107 Field Museum of Natural History: Chicago ...
At the Peabody Museum, Marsh was the first to create skeletal displays of dinosaurs, which are now common in countless museums of natural history. [54] Marsh biographer Mark J. McCarren summed it up this way, Marsh's "contributions to the understanding of extinct reptiles, birds and mammals are unequaled in the history of paleontology." [55]
John Otis Brew (March 28, 1906 – March 19, 1988), was an American archaeologist of the American Southwest and director at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.Many of his publications are still used today by archaeologists that conduct their work in the American Southwest.