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Henry Greenwood Peabody (1855-1951), photographer, lecturer, and publisher of educational slides and films, produced thousands of images documenting the American landscape. Peabody was born in St. Louis, Missouri and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1876. It was while a senior at Dartmouth that Peabody first became interested in photography, producing views of the Dartmouth campus and scenes along the New England coast. After leaving Dartmouth, he spent an additional year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying architecture, electricity, and physics. After working for the Western Electric Company for a few years, he set up a studio first with Alexander Hesler in Chicago, and then in Boston in 1886, where he remained until his wife's death in 1898. In Boston, he specialized in marine, landscape and architectural photography. He served as the official photographer for the Boston and Maine Railroad and the Great Northern Railway, photographed the Americas Cup races, and won numerous photographic awards. In 1899, he traveled to Mexico as photographer to the American Architectural Expedition; his photographs were published in "Spanish-Colonial Architecture in Mexico" by Sylvester Baxter. In 1900 Peabody accepted a position with the Detroit Publishing Company, the largest postcard publisher in the United States. He served as field photographer on both the east and west coasts until 1908. Shortly after joining the Detroit Publishing Company, Peabody relocated to Pasadena, and his primary focus shifted to the landscape of the American West. He also traveled to England and France in 1908 to photograph cathedrals and other architectural monuments. He published the "Swastika Educational Series," series of lantern slides, film slides, and films with accompanying narratives, that focused on national parks in the American West. He also delivered illustrated lectures that covered sites in California and the American West. Peabody's later years were spent selling photographic equipment and photographing the landscape around his home in the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. He died at his home in Glendora, California, one month shy of his ninety-sixth birthday.

From the description of Henry G. Peabody Collection of Photographs and Negatives [graphic], 1859-1993, (bulk 1890s-1900s). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228769950

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