---
license: other
pretty_name: Peabody Newspaper Index Cards (Peabody Institute Library, MA)
tags:
- index-cards
- archives
- glam
- ocr
- local-history
- genealogy
- newspapers
- public-domain
task_categories:
- image-to-text
- image-classification
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
language:
- en
---

# Peabody Newspaper Index Cards (Peabody Institute Library, MA)

**3,694 typewritten index cards** from the **Peabody Institute Library — Sutton
Room Local History Resource Center** (Peabody, Massachusetts), indexing people,
events, and news in **South Danvers / Peabody** as recorded in local newspapers.
The information was typed onto cards over decades by library staff as the local
newspaper-of-record archive's principal finding aid.

Plus a companion **"Poor Family"** genealogy index from the same library.

Harvested from 5 IA items:
[`APeabodyNewspaperIndexCards`](https://archive.org/details/APeabodyNewspaperIndexCards) ·
[`BPeabodyNewspaperIndexCards`](https://archive.org/details/BPeabodyNewspaperIndexCards) ·
[`cpeabodynewspaperindexcards`](https://archive.org/details/cpeabodynewspaperindexcards) ·
[`dpeabodynewspaperindexcards`](https://archive.org/details/dpeabodynewspaperindexcards) ·
[`PoorFamilyIndexCardsGenealogy`](https://archive.org/details/PoorFamilyIndexCardsGenealogy)
(the first four are surnames A–D of the running newspaper index).

Each row pairs the full-resolution card scan with the Internet Archive's ABBYY OCR
text and full provenance back to the source IA item.

## Source & licence

- **Source:** Peabody Institute Library, Sutton Room Local History Resource
  Center, via the Internet Archive collection
  [`peabodyinstitutelibrarylocalhistoryresourcecenter`](https://archive.org/details/peabodyinstitutelibrarylocalhistoryresourcecenter)
  (uploaded by `bauer@noblenet.org` — NOBLE / North of Boston Library Exchange).
- **Licence:** **Public Domain.** Every source IA item carries
  [`Public Domain Mark 1.0`](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
  with `rights: NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES`.

## Schema

| column | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| `image` | image | the card scan (JPEG, re-encoded from the IA JP2 derivative) |
| `ocr_text` | string | full-item OCR text from the IA ABBYY/DjVu output |
| `page` | int | page index within the source item |
| `source_id` | string | IA item identifier |
| `source_title` | string | IA item title |
| `source_collection` | string | IA collection (`peabodyinstitutelibrarylocalhistoryresourcecenter` or `peabodyinstitutelibrarycollection`) |
| `source_url` | string | `https://archive.org/details/<source_id>` |
| `license` | string | `public domain` (per row) |
| `theme` | string | `library_local_history` |

## Citation

> Peabody Institute Library, Sutton Room Local History Resource Center.
> *Newspaper Index Card collection (surnames A–D) + Poor Family Genealogy Index Cards.*
> Internet Archive: <https://archive.org/details/peabodyinstitutelibrarylocalhistoryresourcecenter>.

## Sibling datasets

Browse the wider catalogue:
[BigLAM "Index card datasets" collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/biglam/index-card-datasets-68e38b801f349a4ef520cf03).