Areas of Study in the Social Ethics Collection

The Social Ethics Collection has 7000 images on the subjects of health, labor, poverty, criminology, race, immigration, child development, sports, settlement houses, penology, race, association, ghettos, Ellis Island, slums, work, hospitals/medical treatment and agriculture. It also includes portfolios from the H.J. Heintz factory from Pittsbough and the Francis Benjamin Johnson portfolio on Tuskeegee and Hampton Institutes.

Francis Greenwood Peabody b. 1847 d. 1936

While at Harvard Francis Greenwood Peabody was the founder and collector of the Social Ethics Museum. He used the images as an adjunct to his teaching on social problems. Peabody's goal was grand-- to use the visual social experience in America to promote the investigation of 'modern' social conditions and to collect the data needed for social reform.

Peabody's Career at Harvard              1880-1913 (retired)
Lecturer at the Divinity School              1880-81
Parkman Professor of Theology              1881-1886
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals        1886-1913
Parkman Professor of Theology              1893-1894
Dean of the Divinity School              1901-1906
Preacher to the University              1905-1906

His passion at Harvard University was his social Ethics Museum of photographs. He used the images as an adjunct to his teaching on social problems. Peabody's goal was grand -- to use the visual social experience in America to promote the investigation of modern social conditions and to provide the data needed for social reform.

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