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Pierre de Gigord collection of photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, 1852-1950

Title: Pierre de Gigord collection of photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey 1852-1950

Over 6,000 photographs collected by Pierre de Gigord document the Ottoman Empire and its transformation into the Republic of Turkey, ca. 1852-1950. Included are pamphlets and offprints regarding photography in the Ottoman Empire.

ArchivalResource: ca. 72 linear ft.

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American Steel & Copper Plate Co. Trade catalogs of photography, 1878-1929.

Title: Trade catalogs of photography, 1878-1929.

Trade catalogs, journals, advertisements, for photoengraving, photography, and other ephemera relating to photography.

ArchivalResource: 37 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122539001 View

A.D. Fisk (Firm). Trade catalogs of photography, 1893-1975.

Title: Trade catalogs of photography, 1893-1975.

Trade catalogs of cameras, slide projectors, camera equipment, and other ephemera relating to photography.

ArchivalResource: 107 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498864 View

Agfa Products Inc. Trade catalogs of photography, 1878-1975.

Title: Trade catalogs of photography, 1878-1975.

Trade catalogs of cameras, lenses, movie cameras and projectors, photographic chemicals and equipment, and other ephemera relating to photography.

ArchivalResource: 119 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498867 View

Hartwig, Georg. Oral history interview with Georg Hartwig, 1985 November 23.

Title: Oral history interview with Georg Hartwig, 1985 November 23.

Practical training at the Zeiss company, university study at Göttingen, Berlin, and the Potsdam Observatory, doctorate in 1939; nuclear physics crash course at Leipzig under Robert Döpel. Hartwig's interest in astrophysics and nuclear physics. With the outbreak of war, joins the Army nuclear physics research group under Kurt Diebner. The first uranium machine (G-I) experiment at the Army Weapons Testing Lab in Berlin-Gottow. Radiation protection. Tension between the research groups under the direction of Diebner and Werner Heisenberg. Question of internal uranium machine design, cubes or layers? The second uranium machine (G-II), a lattice of metal uranium cubes immersed in heavy water, a great success. The last years of the war, evacuation and survival. Occupation by the Allied armies, life in the Russian-controlled eastern zone of Germany. Hartwig's move to the new Federal German Republic, teaching first at a private engineering school, later state technical university (Fachhochschule). The 1950s atomic euphoria.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 20 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82445529 View

Levy family. Business papers, 1888-1920 (bulk 1895-1920).

Title: Business papers, 1888-1920 (bulk 1895-1920).

The bulk of the papers is in-coming correspondence relating to orders and shipments, 1895-1920; and includes letters from all parts of the United States, from Europe, especially England and Germany, and from such distant places as India, Australia, and Chile. The firm had important agents abroad, particularly A. W. Penrose & Co. (also Penrose & Co.) in London, and Friedrich Hemsath at Frankfurt, Germany.

ArchivalResource: 14.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122393361 View

Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum institutional records.

Title: Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum institutional records.

The Adler Planetarium Institutional Records serve as the planetariums permanent memory. The collection consists of unique primary records of enduring value that were created or received by the Adler Planetarium and have relevance to the historical development of the Planetarium and its functions over time. Such records include (but are not limited to): legal records, financial reports, administrative documents, meeting minutes, policies, procedures, publications, press releases, correspondence, architectural plans, memorabilia, photographs, research notes, and papers of integral persons. Founders, officers, consultants, committee members and employees created the bulk of this documentation. The institutions organizational structure has grown and evolved over the life of the museum. The series in this collection represent a functional melding of these transformations.

ArchivalResource: 70 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232636841 View

American School of Art & Photography. Trade catalogs of photography, 1891-1965.

Title: Trade catalogs of photography, 1891-1965.

Trade catalogs of projectors, lighting equipment, plates, slides, lenses, and other ephemera relating to photography.

ArchivalResource: 51 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508653 View

Carl Zeiss (Firm). Trade catalogs of scientific and industrial instruments, 1846-1943.

Title: Trade catalogs of scientific and industrial instruments, 1846-1943.

Trade catalogs, brochures, pamphlets of astronomical instruments, laboratory equipment, and other ephemera relating to scientific and industrial instruments.

ArchivalResource: 46 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122439771 View

Carl Zeiss (Firm). Trade catalogs of photography, 1890-1926.

Title: Trade catalogs of photography, 1890-1926.

Trade catalogs of photography equipment, photographs, handbooks, and other ephemera relating to photography.

ArchivalResource: 33 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122381173 View