Phillips Library Collection

The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum holds a significant proportion of material that is unique or rare. Its collections include manuscripts, books, pamphlets, newspapers, photographs, maps, broadsides, and ephemera–a combination of primary and secondary sources that makes the library a rich and productive location for research and discovery. Its scope is global and nearly encyclopedic, and its holdings reflect the museum’s collections of art in all media and across all curatorial departments, on top of its own traditional areas of strength in subjects such as Essex County history.
Charles Osgood (1809-1890), the prolific portrait painter of Salem, Massachusetts : a special loan exhibition, November 9, 1978-January 14, 1979.
By-laws, acts of General Court, list of members.
A series of ten lectures delivered to the second class of cadet midshipmen on the practice of building, launching, docking and fitting of U.S. Naval vessels ; together with a short explanation of the method of building composite and iron vessels
Jeremiah Briggs Journal of America (Ship), 1801-1802
Furniture at the Essex Institute
Philip English’s two cups, “1692”.
Local marine board examination for officers in the mercantile marine servce. : Including regulations for masters and mates in foreign and coasting trade; rules of the road, lights, laws of storms, questions in seamanship, navigation, steam, etc. and a series of explanatory lectures on navigation and astronomical terms.
Elizabeth Hall (Bark) Logbook, 1808, 1851
C. E. L. Green, 1844-1915 : shore and landscape painter of Lynn and Newlyn
The frigate Essex papers : building the Salem frigate, 1798-1799
General signal book of the Navy of the United States of America
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Subjects in this Collection
- Bertram, George
- Bertram, John, 1796-1882
- Briggs, Jeremiah, active 19th century
- Essex (Frigate)
- Essex Institute -- Catalogs
- First Church (Salem, Mass.)
- Furniture -- Catalogs
- Furniture -- Massachusetts -- Catalogs
- Furniture -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Catalogs
- Green, C. E. L. (Charles Edwin Lewis), 1844-1915 -- Exhibitions
- Logbooks
- Logbooks--1808
- Logbooks--1851.
- Logbooks--Ships--Damage
- Merchant marine -- United States
- Naval architecture
- Naval art & science -- Soc
- Naval art and science -- Examinations, questions, etc
- Osgood, Charles, 1809-1890
- Portrait painting, American -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
- Salem (Mass.)
- Salem (Mass.) -- Biography -- Portraits
- Shepard, Michael 1786-1856
- Shipbuilding
- Shipping--Madeira Islands--Madeira
- Shipping--Massachusetts--Boston
- Shipping -- Massachusetts -- Salem
- Shipping--Tanzania--Zanzibar
- Ships, Iron and steel
- Ships spoken--Franklin (Ship)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- Signals and signaling
- Sumatra (Indonesia)
- United States. Navy -- Communication systems
- Ward, Andrew
- Witchcraft -- History -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- 17th century