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Lick Observatory. Records, 1873-1966.

Title: Records, 1873-1966.

Early letters and diaries record the founding, building and equipping of the observatory. In 1876 Captain Floyd, President of the Lick Trust, spent a year in Europe visiting observatories, instrument makers, and astronomers. It was a critical time in the development of the reflecting telescope and the letters of David Gill, Howard Grubb, and William Huggins present the way of thinking of that perod. The correspondence of C. Feil, Alvan Clark, John Brashear, Ambrose Swasey, Simon Newcomb and others documents in detail the planning and construction of the 36-inch refractor. Includes the diary of Thomas E. Fraser (superintendent of construction) written while the Observatory was being built, and correspondence between Lewis Boss, George E. Hale, and W.W. Campbell (members of the Committee on Southern and Solar Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) and William J. Hussey, relating to their report of 1903. Includes correspondence of early directors of the observatory, E.S. Holden (Director, 1888-1897, 60 vols.); J.M. Schaeberle (Act. Director, 1897-1898, 3 vols.); J.E. Keeler (Director, 1898-1900, 6 vols.); W.W. Campbell, Director, 1900-1904). Also included in the early staff were Richard Tucker, Edward Barnard, and S.W. Burnham. Their letters record the pioneer work of the observatory, such as a meridian circle program, radial velocity work, and nebular photography. Tucker's letters also give. Interesting accounts of his nine years at the Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba and three years in charge of the Southern Station of the Carnegie Institution at San Luis. Continuing material includes correspondence of Directors Robert G. Aitken (1930-1935), William H. Wright (1935-1942), Joseph H. Moore (1942-1945), C. Donald Shane (1945-1958), and Albert E. Whitford (1958-1968).

ArchivalResource: 350 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81933660 View

Dieter-Conklin, Nannielou, 1926-. Oral history interview Nannielou Dieter-Conklin, 1977 July 19.

Title: Oral history interview Nannielou Dieter-Conklin, 1977 July 19.

Covers her career in astronomy. Focuses on college education at Goucher, 1945-1948, and Harvard Graduate School from 1955; influence of Bart Bok and Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin. Positions at Naval Research Laboratory, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory; funding, satellite tracking, telescope for Cerro Tololo, Berkeley, 1965; Hat Creek. Discussions on radio astronomy in 1950s and 1970s; very large array telescopes; women in astronomy and search for alternatives. Also prominently mentioned are: William W. Campbell, Harold Ewen, Thomas Gold, Helen Dodson Prince; Harvard Radio Observatory, United States Air Force, Cambridge Research Laboratory of United States Air Force, and University of California at Berkeley.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 26 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82862734 View

Campbell, William Wallace, 1862-1938. Mount Whitney Observatory, 1909.

Title: Mount Whitney Observatory, 1909.

Volume ([24] p.) includes "The spectrum of Mars as observed by the Crocker Expedition to Mt. Whitney" removed from Lick Observatory Bulletin (no. 169), two photographs, with a blue print and typescript specifications for "Shelter" on Mt. Whitney.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. in portfolio (.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22263721 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

Miscellany relating to the inauguration of William Wallace Campbell as president of the University of California, 1924.

Title: Miscellany relating to the inauguration of William Wallace Campbell as president of the University of California, 1924.

Includes announcement of inauguration and official greetings from other institutions.

ArchivalResource: Portfolio ; 45 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122333256 View

University of Michigan Faculty and Staff Portraits, ca. 1860-ca. 1960

Title: University of Michigan Faculty and Staff Portraits ca. 1860-ca. 1960

Portrait photographs of University of Michigan faculty, administrators and staff.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-9263?rgn=main;view=text View

Shane, Charles Donald, 1895-1983. Oral history interview with Charles Donald Shane, 1967, 11 and 14 July.

Title: Oral history interview with Charles Donald Shane, 1967, 11 and 14 July.

Family ancestry; childhood, education; interests and teachers in grammer and high schools; undergraduate teachers and courses at University of California, Berkeley; B.S., 1915; Lick Fellow, 1916-1917; influence of Campbell and Moore in spectroscopy interest, leading to Ph.D. thesis on the spectra of carbon stars; comments on Campbell, Tucker, Hubble, and Russell; marriage and children; note on teaching positions at Berkeley, serving on university committees; solar spectra work on Fabry-Perot interferometer, 1932; work with F. Spedding in separation of heavy water; contact with R. W. Wood; associates at Mt. Wilson Observatory, Edwin S. Hubble, Harlow Shapley, Walter Adams and Wilhelm Baade; administrator for Manhattan Project, details on project work, personnel, associations with E. O. Lawrence and J. R. Oppenheimer; description of Alamagordo explosion; director of Lick Observatory, 1945-58: comments on staff, staff projects, circumstances of Vasilevskis joining staff, recollections of William Wright, 20-inch telescope program, 150-inch telescope, relation to Berkeley Astronomy Dept., Lick-Mt. Wilson annual conferences, life on Mt. Hamilton; AURA and Kitt Peak Observatory Projet, 1950s; Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Project; organizing IAU International Meeting at Berkeley; developing astronomy in New Zealand; comments on astronomical societies and organization, recent trends in astronomy, personal politics and sons' careers.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 5-inch reels (ca. 8.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 210 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82558797 View

Vaughan, Thomas Wayland, 1870-1952. Papers, 1901-1951.

Title: Papers, 1901-1951.

The collection consists of the personal papers of Thomas Wayland Vaughan from January 1901 to March 1951. The material includes correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts of publications, and publications. Most of the correspondence is between Vaughan and the United States Geological Survey, Vaughan and University of California President William Wallace Campbell, and Vaughan and the United States National Museum. The collection also includes three bound volumes which contain a manuscript report entitled, "Catalog of Institutions Engaged in Oceanographic Work, 1937-1938." This was a report prepared by Vaughan on oceanographic institutions throughout the world. Each report includes the name, history, location, equipment, staff, and publications of an oceanographic institution. The report was prepared for the National Academy of Sciences. The collection also includes Vaughan's gardening books. The first volume consists of written instructions to gardeners employed at the Scripps Institution. The second volume lists plants alphabetically by scientific name. Entries note where each plant is located on the SIO campus, when it was originally planted, and its condition and characteristics.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26813361 View

Shane, Mary Lea Heger, 1897-1983. Oral history interview with Mary Lea Heger Shane, 1967 July 15.

Title: Oral history interview with Mary Lea Heger Shane, 1967 July 15.

Family ancestry; orientation of early education; undergraduate at University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D. Lick Observatory, studying under William H. Wright and Heber O. Curtis, recollections of Lick staff, life at Mount Wilson, women as astronomers, mixed roles of mother,student, and faculty wife; evolution of interest in history of astronomy: writing the history of Lick Observatory; comments on the years of husband's (Charles D. Shane) directorship of Lick; involvement with Manhattan Project; recollections of Ernest O. Lawrence and the Radiation Laboratory; comments on astronomers George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and Henry N. Russell. Also prominently mentioned are: William W. Campbell, Heber D. Curtis, Bertil Lindblad, and Joseph H. Moore.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: 1 5-inch reel (ca. 2.0 hrs.), 1 session.Transcript: 51 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83103630 View

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909. Papers of Simon Newcomb, 1854-1936 (bulk 1865-1909).

Title: Papers of Simon Newcomb, 1854-1936 (bulk 1865-1909).

Correspondence, diaries, commonplace books, drafts of speeches, articles, reviews, and books, financial papers, genealogical papers, charts, tables, computations, photos, and printed matter, chiefly 1865-1909, reflecting Newcomb's personal and family life, his work in mathematics and astronomy, his writing of articles for encyclopedias and other publications, and his work as president of the International Congress of Arts and Sciences. Principal correspondents include his wife, Mary Hassler Newcomb, Edward E. Bernard, Alexander Graham Bell, Lewis Boss, Sherburne W. Burnham, William W. Campbell, James McKeen Cattell, George Davidson, Sir David Gill, Daniel C. Gilman, Benjamin A. Gould, George E. Hale, Asaph Hall, George W. Hill, Edward S. Holden, Samuel P. Langley, Othniel C. Marsh, Benjamin Peirce, Edward C. Pickering, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, Otto Struve, Charles D. Walcott, and Carroll D. Wright.

ArchivalResource: 46,000 items.147 containers, plus 6 oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81073508 View

Campbell, William Wallace, 1862-1938. Letters and accounts.

Title: Letters and accounts.

Letters from various astronomers; also includes accounts by Mrs. Campbell of six eclipse expeditions headed by Dr. Campbell on which she accompanied him. The expeditions were to India, Spain, Flint Island, Australia, Russia and Goldendale; the accounts include references to many prominent astronomers who were present.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83317495 View

Campbell, Elizabeth Ballard Thompson. Elizabeth Ballard Thompson Campbell extracts from diary, 1905.

Title: Elizabeth Ballard Thompson Campbell extracts from diary, 1905.

Comments on visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan, when her husband William W. Campbell, received an honorary degree from the University of Michigan.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (8 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80181744 View

Aitken, Douglas Carryl, 1898-. Oral history interview with Douglas Carryl Aitken, 1977 July 23.

Title: Oral history interview with Douglas Carryl Aitken, 1977 July 23.

Experiences as a child on Mount Hamilton (Lick Observatory) just after the turn of the century; schooling on Mount Hamilton; father's (Robert Grant Aitken) observing with 36-inch refractor; Lick public observing nights; general life on Mount Hamilton; Mrs. Phoebe Hearst's support for private schooling; father's recollections about Lick astronomers; World War I. Also prominently mentioned are: S.W. Burnham, William W. Campbell, Sturla Einarsson, E.S. Holden, James Keeler, Joachim Murietta, Richard H. Tucker; and Copernicus Peak.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (ca. 2.0 hr.), 1 session.Transcript: 44 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79356761 View

Portraits of University of California individuals and groups, ca. 1850-[ongoing]

Title: Portraits of University of California individuals and groups, ca. 1850-[ongoing]

The collection consists of identified individuals and groups connected to the University of California, primarily from the Berkeley campus and the system-wide administration.

ArchivalResource: Ca. 4500 items

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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

Schlesinger, Frank, 1871-1943. Allegheny Observatory correspondence [microform], 1905-1920.

Title: Allegheny Observatory correspondence [microform], 1905-1920.

Collection consists of Schlesinger's director's correspondence and scientific correspondence from the Allegheny Observatory. Topics include the astrometry of high precision accomplished by photographic means, and the International Union for Solar Research. Correspondents include Robert G. Aitken, Harold L. Alden, Benjamin Boss, William W. Campbell, Annie J. Cannon, Raymond S. Dugan, Philip Fox, Edwin Frost, George Ellery Hale, R.T.A. Innes, Frank C. Jordan, Armin Otto Leuschner, John A. Miller, Samuel Alfred Mitchell, Edward C. Pickering, Frank E. Ross, Henry Norris Russell, Harlow Shapley, and Joel Stebbins, as well as the Brashear Company.

ArchivalResource: 10 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80601819 View

Martens, Wilhelm Ludwig Ferdinand, d. 1931. Wilhelm Ludwig Ferdinand Martens papers, 1868-1926.

Title: Wilhelm Ludwig Ferdinand Martens papers, 1868-1926.

Letters from R.G. Aitken and W.W. Campbell regarding equipment for Lick Observatory, and from Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Grinnell, W.F. Durand, the California Academy of Sciences, Frank M. Russell and others; papers relating to his patent for an improvement on surveying instruments; miscellaneous notes and accounts.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.4 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515033 View

Beman, Wooster Woodruff, 1850-1922. Wooster Woodruff Beman papers, 1865-1938.

Title: Wooster Woodruff Beman papers, 1865-1938.

Correspondence concerning the University of Michigan, especially the Department of Mathematics; mathematical papers; biographical sketches of James B. Angell, Edward Olney, and Volney M. Spalding; religious addresses; papers (1885-1898) relating to gambling, prostitution, and selling liquor on Sunday in Ann Arbor, Michigan, memoranda on various trips, and memorial on the death of Beman; also photographs. Correspondents include: Marion L. Burton, Thomas M. Cooley, Edgar J. Goodspeed, William R. Harper. William J. Hussey, Harry B. Hutchins, Volney M. Spalding, William W. Campbell, Arthur G. Hall, E.R. Hedrick, and W.F. Osgood.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34421914 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Wilson, Olin, C., 1909-1994. Oral history interview with Olin C. Wilson, 1978 July 11.

Title: Oral history interview with Olin C. Wilson, 1978 July 11.

Early life in San Francisco and first contacts with astronomy in 1920; Public Lectures under auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific; college years at University of California at Berkeley, 1926-1930; interests in physics and astronomy; contact with Donald Menzel; move to Caltech and graduate studies; work with Paul Merrill; Mount Wilson in the 1930s; limitations of spectroscopic equipment; recollections of Edwin Hubble; job offers and decision to remain at Mt. Wilson; origins of research interests and early work leading to Wilson-Bappu Effect; stellar chromospheres and first use of 100-inch telescope in 1938; work on rocket project during World War II; recollections of Walter Baade and Walter S. Adams; postwar years at Mount Wilson; Ira Bowen; Office of Naval Research (ONR) funding; research on planetary nebulae; instrumentation for the 200-inch telescope; internal peer review system; Halton C. Arp's work; continued work on Wilson-Bappu Effect and need for theoretical understanding; study of the solar cycle; teaching and graduate students; work with Rudolph Minkowski; recalibration of Cepheid period/luminosity; Paul W. Hodge's and George Wallerstein's paper of 1967; Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky; the operation of Hale Observatories; kinematics of the Orion Nebula; origin of southern station at Las Campanas; Hale Observatories and Caltech; Bowen's retirement. Also prominently mentioned are: Helmut Abt. Lawrence H. Aller, Horace W. Babcock, Raymond Thayer Birge, William W. Campbell, Theodore Dunham, Jr., Hyades, Donald Howard Menzel, Dimitri Mihalis, Joseph H. Moore, Guido Münch, F. Pease, George Preston, Rayet, Allan Sandage, Garritt P. Serviss, Charles Donald Shane, Stanislaus Vasilevskis, Wolf; Carnegie Institution of Washington, Hale Observatories, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Lick Observatory, University of California at Berkeley, and Yerkes Observatory.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 119 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78557683 View

Howard, Charles Webb, 1831-1908?. Charles Webb Howard letters, 1896-1905.

Title: Charles Webb Howard letters, 1896-1905.

Includes letters received from William H.L. Barnes, William W. Campbell, Mary H. Foote, Gustav A. Gotzen, James D. Hague, John S. Hittell, Francis G. Newlands, William C. Quilter, William R. Shafter, Horatio Stebbins, and Benjamin I. Wheeler. Some written to him as secretary, Spring Valley Water Company.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214993026 View

Drury, Aubrey, 1891-1959. Aubrey Drury papers, 1931-1938.

Title: Aubrey Drury papers, 1931-1938.

Correspondence, promotional material, and clippings, relating to the need for a large modern reflector for Lick Observatory; the University of California Alumni Association; and work for the Statewide Committee on Higher Education. Include letters from Newton B. Drury, Robert G. Sproul, and William W. Campbell.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214965871 View

Kron, Gerald Edward, 1913-. Oral history interview with Gerald Edward Kron, 1978 May 20.

Title: Oral history interview with Gerald Edward Kron, 1978 May 20.

Family origins; early life in Milwaukee; interest in mechanical things; development of interest in astronomy; engineering at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee campus; interest in photoelectric photometry; graduate study at Madison and work with Charles Huffer and Joel Stebbins; Stebbins and Alfred E. Whitford's work; graduate study at Lick Observatory and University of California at Berkeley; photoelectric instrumentation; Lick in the pre-war years; World War II at MIT and Caltech; return to Lick and use of 1P21 photomultipliers; Walter Baade; origin of 120-inch telescope; Australia; Lick during the 1950s and Charles D. Shane's retirement; the electronic camera; contacts and association with Harold Johnson, Merle Walker and André Lallemand; move to Flagstaff and the Naval Observatory; recollections of Lick staff in 1930s; Henry N. Russell; Katherine Kron's work at Harvard University and astronomical interests. Also prominently mentioned are: Horace W. Babcock, Bart Jan Bok, William W. Campbell, Olin Eggen, George Herbig, Hamilton M. Jeffers, Harold Johnson, Alfred H. Joy, Armin O. Leuschner, Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, J.H. Moore, G. Neugebauer, George Paddock, Roger Revelle, Franklin Roach, Robert Gordon Sproul, Robert Julius Trumpler, Olin Chaddock Wilson, Carl Wirtanen, William Hammond Wright, Arthur B. Wyse; Commonwealth Observatory, Inyokern Project, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory, National. Science Foundation (U.S.), Radcliffe College, Rocket Project, 120-inch Telescope, 200-inch Telescope, and University of California at Santa Cruz.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 85 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79752532 View

Hussey family. Hussey family papers, 1876-1926.

Title: Hussey family papers, 1876-1926.

Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and other materials relating especially to Hussey's activities as professor of astronomy and director of the astronomical observatory at the University of Michigan, including his scientific visits to South America and South Africa.

ArchivalResource: 8.5 linear ft. and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34421270 View

Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972. Papers [microform], 1910-1923.

Title: Papers [microform], 1910-1923.

Consists of scientific correspondence from the period Shapley was at Mount Wilson Observatory. Also included are some items from the early years at Harvard that were not filed with the director's records. Topics include galaxies, globular clusters, variable stars, pulsation hypothesis, eclipsing binaries, stellar and nebular photometry, spectroscopy, and cosmology. Correspondents include Robert G. Aitken, Solon I. Bailey, Robert H. Baker, Edward E. Barnard, William W. Campbell, Julian L. Coolidge, Heber O. Curtis, Arthur S. Eddington, Henry G. Gale, George Ellery Hale, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, Oliver D. Kellogg, Adrian van Maanen, Edward C. Pickering, D.S. Richardson, Henry N. Russell, Frank Schlesinger, Frederick H. Seares, Vesto M. Slipher, Joel Stebbins, Robert Trumpler, William M. Wheeler, Edwin B. Wilson, and Robert M. Yerkes.

ArchivalResource: 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80523781 View

Wooster Woodruff Beman papers, 1865-1938, 1878-1922

Title: Wooster Woodruff Beman papers 1865-1938 1878-1922

Instructor at Kalamazoo College, later professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan; correspondence, mathematical papers; and miscellaneous topical files.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear feet.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85735?rgn=main;view=text View

Bok, Bart J. (Bart Jan), 1906-1983. Oral history interview with Bart Jan Bok, 1978 May 15 to 14 June.

Title: Oral history interview with Bart Jan Bok, 1978 May 15 to 14 June.

Interview discusses, not in chronological order: early home life and schooling; undergraduate at Leiden, influence of Paul Ehrenfest, Jan H. Oort, Jacobus C. Kapteyn, Gerard Kuiper, Antonie Pannekoek, Ejnar Hertzsprung. Recollections of work of Georg Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit. Assistant to Peter van Rhijn at Groningen ca. 1928, work on various stellar and galactic topics. Move to Harvard, 1929, and atmosphere there under Harlow Shapley. Marriage to Priscilla Fairfield Bok; her contacts with William W. Campbell. Search for and interpretation of spiral auras of our galaxy; studies of stellar density distribution. Activities during World War II. Harvard astronomy group's difficult postwar transition; McCarthyism. Work on nebulae and globules. Comments on astronomy at Mt. Wilson, Tonantziutla, and South Africa. Origins of Harvard radio astronomy and National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and their funding. Move to Australia, 1956, and conditions there. Move to Steward Observatory of University of Arizona, 1964, and conditions there. Location of national observatory at Kitt Peak; management of Kitt Peak. Discussions of astronomy, education, popularization, employment, and organization. Also prominently mentioned are: Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, McGeorge Bundy, Edwin F. Carpenter, Tom Cherry, James Bryant Conant, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Sergei Gaposchkin, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Haro, David Heeschen, Ejnar. Hertzsprung, James Jeans, Ivan Robert King, Bertil Lindblad, Antonia Maury, Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, Joseph McCarthy, Sidney McCuskey, Aden Meinel, Donald Howard Menzel, Robert Menzies, James E. Miller, Edward Arthur Milne, William Wilson Morgan, Edward Charles Pickering, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Nathan Pusey, Martin Schwarzschild, Willem de Sitter, Otto Struve; American Astronomical Society, Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy, Associated Universities, Inc., Boyden Observatory, Case Institute of Technology, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard Series on Astronomy, Indiana University, Mount Stromlo Observatory, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Ohio State University, Princeton University, Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, University of Arizona, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and University of Texas.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 10 sound cassettes (ca. 9.0 hr.), 4 sessions.Transcript: 166 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81865348 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

Hussey Family papers, 1876-1926

Title: Hussey Family papers 1876-1926

William Joseph and Ethel Fountain Hussey family of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and other materials relating especially to Hussey's activities as professor of astronomy and director of the astronomical observatory at the University of Michigan, including his scientific visits to South America and South Africa.

ArchivalResource: 8.5 linear and 1 oversize folder.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851534?rgn=main;view=text View

Campbell, William Wallace, 1862-1938. William H. Wright Papers, ca. 1897-1954.

Title: William H. Wright Papers, ca. 1897-1954.

This collection includes lecture notes and manuscripts.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76177661 View

Campbell, William Wallace, 1862-1938. Letter.

Title: Letter. 1903.

T.L.S. (1903 April 6, San Francisco) to Knight concerning intended testing of atmospheric conditions in the Sierra Madre and San Jacinto Mountains.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10024197 View

Russell, Henry Norris, 1877-1957. Correspondence [microform], 1890-1950.

Title: Correspondence [microform], 1890-1950.

The correspondence spans Russell's entire career, including his student years at Princeton University and Cambridge University. Primarily professional correspondence, the collection reflects his work with the International Astronomical Union on stellar spectra, with the American Astronomical Society, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ordnance Ballistic Advisory Committee, the Meteor Crater Exploration and Mining Company, and Ginn and Company. Topics include virtually all aspects of stellar astronomy, from binary and variable star systems to stellar atmospheres and interiors. Much of the correspondence with Otto Struve and Edwin Frost constitutes Russell's reviews of papers submitted to the Astrophysical Journal of a broad range of topics in astronomy, spectroscopic astrophysics and theoretical astrophysics. Correspondents include Walter S. Adams, Robert G. Aitken, Edward E. Barnard, William W. Campbell, Theodore Dunham, Edwin B. Frost, George R. Harrison, Albert G. Ingalls, Arthur S. King, Zdenek Kopal, Willem Jacob Luyten, William F. Meggers, Donald H. Menzel, John E. Merrill, Samuel Alfred Mitchell, Edward C. Pickering, Alexander G. Russell, Gordon M. Russell, Frederick Albert Saunders, Frank Schlesinger, Frederick H. Seares, Harlow Shapley, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Joel Stebbins, and Otto Struve.

ArchivalResource: 41 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81094260 View

Aitken, Malcolm. Oral history interview with Max Aitken, 1977 July 17.

Title: Oral history interview with Max Aitken, 1977 July 17.

Interview centers around experiences as a child on Mount Hamilton (Lick Observatory) just after the turn of the century; father's (Robert Grant Aitken) scientific life and personal life; the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; Halley's Comet, 1910; contact with the families of astronomers; William W. Campbell; Heber D. Curtis; experiences in World War I; Mrs. Aitken's astronomical training. Also prominently mentioned are: S.W. Burnham, James Lick, Percival Lowell, Richard H. Tucker; American Astronomical and Astrophysical Society, University of California at Berkeley, and Williams College.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (ca. 3.0 hr.)Transcript: 43 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81001315 View

Campbell, Kenneth. Oral history interview entitled, "Life on Mt. Hamilton, 1899-1913".

Title: Oral history interview entitled, "Life on Mt. Hamilton, 1899-1913".

Primarily concerned with his boyhood at Lick Observatory.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82863385 View

Lick Observatory. Copybook correspondence [microform] 1888-1993.

Title: Copybook correspondence [microform] 1888-1993.

Microfilm includes copybook transcriptions of letters by Observatory directors Edward Holden, John Schaeberle, James Keeler, and William Campbell, carbon copies of outgoing correspondence 1905-1993, and holograph incoming letters.

ArchivalResource: 48 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/253854216 View