Several repositories at Harvard University contain papers, manuscripts, and published materials related to Francis Greenwood Peabody, who graduated from Harvard College in 1869 and received degrees from the Divinity School and the Graduate School in 1872. For more information, contact the Andover-Harvard Theological Library and the Harvard University Archives.

Digital access to material from the Social Museum Collection is also available through the Harvard University Library Open Collections Program (OCP). Through this program, the University advances teaching and learning on historical topics of great relevance by providing online access to historical resources from Harvard’s renowned libraries, archives, and museums. OCP's highly specialized "open collections" are developed through careful collaborations among Harvard’s distinguished faculty, librarians, and curators. The goal of the Open Collections Program is to offer a new model for digital collections that will benefit students and teachers around the world.

Two "open collections" have been launched since 2004: Women Working, 1800–1930, and Immigration to the United States, 1789–1930. Two additional collections are under development now: Contagion: Historical Views of Contagious Disease, and the Islamic Heritage Project.

The Open Collections Program provided major support for the digitization of the Social Museum Collection.

A related exhibition, The Human Factor: Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at Baker Library, was on view at the Baker Library, North Lobby, Harvard Business School, Boston, October 19, 2006, through March 7, 2007.

In the 1930s Harvard Business School colleagues Donald Davenport and Frank Ayres contacted leading businesses and requested photographs for classroom instruction—images Davenport hoped would "reveal the courage, industry and intelligence required of the American working man." They amassed more than 2,100 photographs, from strangely beautiful views of men operating Midvale Steel’s 9,000-ton hydraulic press to women assembling tiny, delicate parts of Philco radios. Now students, and America’s aspiring corporate managers, had visual data to study "the human factor," the interaction of worker and machine.