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Captain Joseph Peabody: East India Merchant of Salem (1757â1844)
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston: A Centennial History, vols. 1â2
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Spanish Romanesque Architecture of the Eleventh Century
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Garrett, Wendell D. (1978). "Walter Muir Whitehill".
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