Series IV. Catalogs of Collections contains various versions of the catalogs of the collections as well as photocopies. It also includes a copy of History of the Salem East India Marine Society printed by Newcomb & Gauss in 1916. The "Catalogue of the Ethnological Collection of the Essex Institute by H. F. Shepard, Re-written by J. Robinson 1864-1865" contains lists of items with Essex Institute ("E") cross-reference numbers. It ends with 1914.