Essex Institute
The Essex Institute (1848–1992) in Salem, Massachusetts, was "a literary, historical and scientific society." It maintained a museum, library, historic houses; arranged educational programs; and issued numerous scholarly publications. In 1992 the institute merged with the Peabody Museum of Salem to form the Peabody Essex Museum.On December 8, 2017, Dan L. Monroe, PEM’s Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO, issued a statement announcing that the 42,000 linear feet of historical documents will be permanently relocated to Rowley, MA to allow Plummer Hall and Daland House, the two historic buildings which had housed the Phillips Library, to undergo critically needed preservation and renovation work. Provided by Wikipedia
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Place a HoldSalem imprints 1768-1825a history of the first fifty years of printing in Salem Massachusetts with some account of the bookshops booksellers bookbinders and the private librariesBookby Tapley, Harriet Silvester, 1870-1962
Published 1927
