Our digitization efforts are ongoing. We will continue to add new items and collections over time. 

Broadsides Collection

Spectacular! Astounding! Three centuries of broadsides from Essex County, Massachusetts!

Correspondence of Rev. Joseph Noyes

1706-1757

Related to the Yale tutor and minister of First Church in New Haven, CT.

Emmerton, Foster, & Putnam

1847-1874

Architectural drawings and project specifications by William H. Emmerton, Joseph C. Foster, and Charles Appleton Putnam, in Salem, MA.

Let None Be Excluded: The Origins of Equal School Rights in Salem

Documents and materials from the 2022-2023 exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Remond Family Papers

1823-1869, undated

The papers of a prominent African-American family of Salem, Massachusetts.

Salem Fire Images

Photo collection of the Great Salem Fire of 1914

The Salem Witch Trials

Several types of content make up this collection: original documents from 1692, items related to PEM exhibtions about the witch trials, and more.

Winthrop Family Papers

1633-1700, 1899

Documents related to Ipswich, Massachusetts, most written to or from John Winthrop, Jr.