George Francis Dow

George Francis Dow (1868–1936) was an American antiquarian and museum pioneer. As secretary of the Essex Institute in Salem from 1898 to 1918 he created some of the first period rooms in an American museum and moved a seventeenth-century house onto its grounds, and he later directed the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and edited its journal. He published the records of the Essex County courts and of Salem's probate court, and wrote The Arts and Crafts in New England, The Pirates of the New England Coast, Slave Ships and Slaving and Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.