1952-1997
Offsite Storage Inventory
Restrictions on Access
The bulk of the Endicott Peabody papers and photographs is stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@masshist.org.
Note: This collection is UNPROCESSED and closed to researchers pending processing.
There are restrictions on the use of this collection. Users must sign an agreement stating that they understand these restrictions before they will be given access to the collection.
Abstract
This collection consists of the professional papers and of Massachusetts Governor Endicott "Chub" Peabody, 1952-1997, as well as photographs consisting of images from Peabody's political career.
Collection Description
Professional papers of Massachusetts Governor Endicott "Chub" Peabody, 1952-97. Includes correspondence, speeches, press releases, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers related to Mass. governor and U.S. Senate campaigns; and speeches, interviews, scrapbooks, clippings and memorabilia kept while governor. Also includes diaries and desk calendars kept, 1952-61, 1967-68; an autograph collection; scrapbooks and other papers related to Peabody's campaign against land mines, 1997; and audio-visual materials.
Photographs contain images from Peabody's political career. The bulk of the photographs date from his campaign for governor in 1962 until he left the governor's office in 1965 and document campaign rallies, inauguration ceremonies, official ceremonies as governor, bill signings, among many other subjects. There are also a number of portraits of Endicott Peabody from 1962 through the 1990s, as well as one folder of miscellaneous clippings collected by the governor. All of the photographs are paper-based, and there are both black and white as well as color images.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Barbara Peabody, October 1999; additions, 2000.
Restrictions on Access
The bulk of the Endicott Peabody papers and photographs is stored offsite and must be requested at least two business days in advance via Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should provide additional advance notice. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@masshist.org.
Note: This collection is UNPROCESSED and closed to researchers pending processing.
There are restrictions on the use of this collection. Users must sign an agreement stating that they understand these restrictions before they will be given access to the collection.
Restrictions on Use
The Massachusetts Historical Society does not claim ownership to the literary rights (copyright) of letters and documents written by individuals other than Barbara W. Peabody and Endicott Peabody in this collection. The Massachusetts Historical Society cannot give permission to publish or quote from documents by individuals for whom it does not hold copyright. Use of these materials does not imply permission to publish. It is the sole responsibility of the researcher to obtain formal permission from the owners of the literary rights (copyright) to publish or quote from documents in this collection.
Photocopies are for personal use only. Personal use photocopies may not be donated or deposited in other libraries or archives, or made available to other researchers without the written permission of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Processing Note
This collection is unprocessed. A detailed box and folder list accompanied the collection and that list has been revised to account for the reboxing of the collection for offsite storage. See the curator of manuscripts for more information.
Summary Description of the Collection
Files: "The Massachusetts Years"
Memorabilia, 1962-1965
Files: "Campaign for U.S. Senate 1966 from Massachusetts through Vietnam 1968"
Additions (files, paperback books, videotapes)
Pamphlets:
Files:
Paperback books:
Video Films:
Diaries:
Autograph collection:
3 Nelson Rockefeller Postcards, 1 Senator George McGovern Postcard, A1 Capp, Maurice A. Donahue, Senator John E. Powers, Governor Faster Furcalo, Senator William M. Bulger, Representative Barney Frank, Representative Torbert Macdonald, Senator William X. Wall, Edward King & mass card, Secr. John F.X. Davoren, Rt. Reverand Monsignor George V. Kerr, Representative Harold D. Donohue, Representative Langdon Marvin, Governor Francis W. Sargent, General Richard E. McLaughlin, Francis X. Bellotti, Senator Mark O. Hatfield, Senator Gary Hart, Kenneth O'Donnell, Governor William F. Weld, Congressman Charles F. Bass, Governor Michael S. Dukakis, copy of invitation to inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1937), Mrs. Tip O'Neill, Jr., Mondale, Vice President Walter F. and Mrs. Joan (card)
Films and tapes
Endicott Peabody Films previewed by Atlantic Productions, British Broadcasting Corporation for the mini series "The American Dream" 1998 (yellow discs numbered by Atlantic)
Scrapbooks
Note: Due to active mildew, this volume has been isolated and retained onsite at Ms. U-576.
Oversize scrapbooks
Photographs
Preferred Citation
Endicott Peabody papers and photographs, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Access Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.