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George Peabody Library


 

Mailing Address

17 East Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, MD 21201

Contact: Earle Havens, Curator of Rare Books
              Paul Espinosa, Peabody Library Assistant

Phone: 410-659-8179

E-mail: earle.havens@jhu.edu
             pespino3@jhu.edu

Web: Peabody Library

Finding Aids: Find Rare Books
                      JHU Catalog
                      Catalog of the Library of the Peabody Institute

Hours of Service

Open for Readers
Tuesday-Friday 9 am-5 pm

Overview

The George Peabody Library is a remarkable research library housed in a remarkable building. The goal of the Peabody Library's first librarian was to build a library that contained the best and latest literature in all branches of knowledge except law and medicine.

Special Services

  • Cameras (at curator discretion)

  • Digital cameras (at curator discretion)

  • Photocopies

  • Photoduplication services

  • Scanning

Type of Materials

  • Books and Monographs

  • Exhibitions

  • Maps

  • Primary Resources

  • Printed Ephemera

  • Prints and Drawings

  • Serials

Detailed Description of Collections