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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Astronomy. Department of Astronomy publications, 1964-[ongoing].

Title: Department of Astronomy publications, 1964-[ongoing].

Includes announcements (1967- ) relating to the Astronomy Dept. and the Vermilion River Observatory; research publications (1964- ) of the Astronomy Dept.; reprints (1965-1966) of the Vermilion River Observatory; and preprints (1982- ) of reports of research by Astronomy Department faculty and graduate students concerning stars, planetary bodies, interstellar molecules and gases, galaxies, radio astronomy and astrophysics. Also includes a history of "The Astronomical Observatory of the University of Illinois" by Michael T. Svec, describing the development of astronomy; construction of observatories; purchase and development of telescopes, photometers and related equipment; faculty research of George W. Myers, Joel Stebbins, Jakob Kunz, Robert H. Baker, George C. McVittie and others; and the nomination and listing of the observatory on the National Register of Historic Sites (1986) and Astronomy and Astrophysics, A National Historic Landmark Theme Study (Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, DC, 1989), of which the University of Illinois Section was based on Michael Svec's work.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic feet.

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McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962. Robert R. McMath papers, 1916-1962.

Title: Robert R. McMath papers, 1916-1962.

Correspondence concerning astronomy, particularly celestial photography, and the development of the McMath Observatory, financial records, plans for telescope equipment, and printed materials. Correspondents include: Randolph G. Adams, Walter S. Adams, Arthur Adel, E. F. Barker, Junius E. Beal, Kevin Burns, George L. Burr, Vannevar Bush, Manuel Avila Camacho, Heber D. Curtis, R. H. Curtiss, A. E. Dale, F. Trubee Davison, Helen Dodson, Allen Dulles, Theodore J. Dunham, Carl Eckart, John R. Effinger, J. W. Fecker, Clyde Fisher, Erle Stanley Gardner, W. S. Gilmore, Leo Goldberg, Gilbert Grosvenor, Melville Grosvenor, Roger Heyns, Henry S. Hulbert, N. C. Johnson, Louis C. Karpinski, Remington Kellogg, Hayward Keniston, Edward H. Kraus, F. H. Learer, Roy D. McClure, C. S. McDowell, Tracy W. McGregor, Francis C. McMath, George Malesky, Donald H. Menzel, Paul W. Merrill, Orren C. Mohler, Seth Nicholson, William Norton, Charles E. Odegaard, Jesse Ormondroyd, R. M. Petrie, Edison Pettit, Alfred J. Pyke, Donald A. Quarles, Harrison G. Reynolds, Warner G. Rice, Henry N. Russell, Alexander G. Ruthven, Samuel Sass, H. E. Sawyer, Charles H. Schauer, B. A. Schriever, Harlow Shaply, Joseph W. Shirley, Shirley Smith, E. Blythe Stason, Joel Stebbins, Harlan Stetson, Julius F. Stone, T. Hawley Tapping, Alan Waterman, Alfred H. White, Charles E. Wilson, and Clarence S. Yoakum.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80631884 View

Stebbins, Joel, 1878-1966. Papers, 1907-1957 (bulk 1907-1923).

Title: Papers, 1907-1957 (bulk 1907-1923).

Includes reprints of articles concerning Stebbins' research with selenium photoelectric cells for measurement of astronomical bodies, variations and eclipsing of stars, and results of photoelectric study of stars. This series also includes an article on the founding of the American Section of the International Astronomical Union (Popular Astronomy, 1919), address on "Observation versus Experimentation" (Science, 1922), memoirs of Jakob Kunz (Popular Astronomy, 1939), an address on "Early Photometry at Illinois" (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1957), and an article about Stebbins from the Nebraska Alumnus, 1936.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cu ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84940119 View

Seares, Frederick Hanley, 1873-. Papers of Frederick Hanley Seares, 1909-1945 (bulk 1909-1940).

Title: Papers of Frederick Hanley Seares, 1909-1945 (bulk 1909-1940).

The collection consists of the correspondence files of Frederick Hanley Seares. While roughly one half of the papers deal with administrative matters of the Mount Wilson Observatory, the remainder cover his scientific work. There are also some manuscripts, notes and notebooks (Boxes 19-21) related to Seares's research activities.

ArchivalResource: ca. 10,000 items.21 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122443796 View

Robert R. McMath Papers, 1916-1962

Title: Robert R. McMath Papers 1916-1962

Detroit, Michigan industrialist and director of the McMath-Hulbert Observatory of University of Michigan (located on Lake Angelus near Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan.). Correspondence concerning astronomy, particularly celestial photography, and the development of the McMath Observatory, financial records, plans for telescope equipment, and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

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Stebbins, Joel, 1878-. Addition to papers, 1918-1948.

Title: Addition to papers, 1918-1948.

Subject files, topics include: absorption, Algol, clusters, eclipse expeditions, galactic poles, nebulae, stars, and miscellaneous. Also includes papers by A. E. Whitford used by Stebbins in research.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155006438 View

American Astronomical Society. Records, 1897-1988, (bulk 1920-1980).

Title: Records, 1897-1988, (bulk 1920-1980).

These records are described in three parts representing four separate accessions. The groups overlap and the same subjects may be covered in all three parts. There are also significant gaps, such as very little correspondence prior to 1915, and large gaps in the records of the treasurer. Most of the surviving documentation on the AAS's founding is in Parts 1 and 2. Membership applications, correspondence, and lists found throughout give details on the growth of the organization. A complete set of minutes (1897-1962) can be found in Part 1, and there is a wealth of information on meetings of the AAS throughout including programs and preliminary announcements, abstracts of papers, meeting attendance signature books, and executive committee minutes. Parts 2 and 3 contain significant records on the founding of the American Section of the International Astronomical Union in 1919 and provide insights into the international relations of the scientific community after World War I. Also included are published versions of constitutions, by-laws, and membership lists, budgets, committee minutes, treasurer's reports, and photographs of groups taken at meetings. Some of the topics include education and employment of astronomers, the organization of scientific personnel in support of the war effort in the 1940s, the participation of women astronomers, UFOs, and George E. Hale on the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory. Correspondents include: Charles G. Abbot, Benjamin Boss, Margaret Burbidge, William W. Campbell, Annie J. Cannon, James McKeen Cattell, Goerge C. Comstock, Ralph H. Curtiss, Charles L. Doolittle, Dugan, R.S., Frank Edmondson, Philip Fox, Fredrick, Laurence, Edwin B. Frost, George E. Hale, William J. Hussey, J. Allen Hynek, Harold Jacoby, Albert A. Michelson, John A. Miller, Simon Newcomb, D.B. McLaughlin, George McVittie, Edward C. Pickering, Henry Norris Russell, Frank Schlesinger, Frederick H. Seares, Joel Stebbins, and Herbert C. Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 33 linear ft. (63 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83857685 View

Campbell, William Wallace, 1862-1938. William Wallace Campbell postcards, 1903-1928.

Title: William Wallace Campbell postcards, 1903-1928.

Includes cards from Annie J. Cannon, Philip Fox, E.B. Frost, Johannes F. Hartmann, Annibale Riccò, Joel Stebbins, Harold Knox-Shaw and other astronomers. Cards depict Lick Observatory and other observatories in the United States and abroad.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.2 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79128387 View

Joel Stebbins Papers, 1907-23, 1936, 1939, 1957

Title: Joel Stebbins Papers 1907-23, 1936, 1939, 1957

ArchivalResource: 0.20

http://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=3711 View