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Records of William Bond & Son and The Bond Family, 1724-1931 (inclusive), 1769-1923 (bulk).

Title: Records of William Bond & Son and The Bond Family, 1724-1931 (inclusive), 1769-1923 (bulk).

Records of William Bond & Son document various aspects of the clock-making industry and its impact on 19th century America, particularly the railroad industry, and astronomical and geodetic sciences. Also includes some family papers; personal documents of William Cranch Bond, such as deeds, his father's apprentice indenture, 1769, and naturalization papers, 1785; and Harvard College Observatory records from Bond's directorship (1845-1859). Business records include 4 volumes of daybooks, 1833-1903, recording dealings with the Observatory and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; agreement with the railroads to maintain their clocks and provide standard time for them; involvement with the U.S. Chronometric Expedition to determine difference of longitude between Greenwich Observatory (England) and Cambridge, Mass.; bankruptcy of the firm in 1875; and instrument repair. Additional records are 3 volumes of account books, 1857-1917, business correspondence, 1808-1931, and letterbooks, 1816-1914; payroll and legal documents, such as U.S. Navy contract to maintain chronometers; a book of drawings for, and photographs of chronographs (astronomical recording devices); and miscellaneous materials including notes on chronometer making, testimonials and photographs of the business. Family papers contain letters, dated 1800-1909, photographs, land deeds, genealogical documents, and biographical information on William Bond by Edward Everett. Collection includes objects such as foundry patterns, medals, and watches. Records relating to the Harvard Observatory include correspondence and drafts of annual reports, 1849-1866. There are several William Bond & Son clocks also housed in the Historical Scientific Instruments collection.

ArchivalResource: 5 1/2 linear ft. and 4 portfolio files.

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hsi00001/catalog View

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Time Service, 1877-1896 and undated

Title: Records of the Harvard College Observatory Time Service, 1877-1896 and undated

The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Time Service contain correspondence, reports, data, newspaper clippings, and bills related to the Observatory’s time service and time ball activities during the tenure of director Edward Pickering, from 1877 to 1896. These records give insight into the importance of the time service across the region, and the range of organizations that depended on the information, as well as the funding and work that went into maintaining the service.

ArchivalResource: 4 containers

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua36018/catalog View

Records of the Director, Leo Goldberg, ca.1960-1970 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Director, Leo Goldberg, ca.1960-1970 (inclusive).

Administrative records of L. Goldberg, including reports; fiscal memoranda; research proposals; reports on science programs; personnel information; funding and progress reports about research projects, such as Solar Satellite and Orbiting Solar Observatory and organizations such as the Northeast Radio Observatory Corporation; drafts of papers and technical drawings; contract renewals; equipment inventories; descriptions of affiliated observatories such as Agassiz Station and Fort Davis Radio Observatories, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory annual reports and memos; correspondence with Harvard faculty, etc. Records organized in the following categories: 1) Harvard administrative files; 2) Research projects and contracting firms; 3) Affiliated observatories; and 4) Correspondence with individual staff, fauclty, etc.

ArchivalResource: 10 containers

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019672950203941/catalog View

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Committee: minutes, 1958-1967

Title: Records of the Harvard College Observatory Committee: minutes, 1958-1967

The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Committee: minutes contain the official minutes and agendas of the meetings of the Harvard College Observatory Committee and the Committee of Senior Professors, as well as some additional related records.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic foot in 1 container.

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua15020/catalog View

Records of Harvard College Observatory Director Harlow Shapley, 1911-1952 and [undated]

Title: Records of Harvard College Observatory Director Harlow Shapley, 1911-1952 and [undated]

Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) was an astronomer who served as Director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1921 to 1952. The records document Shapley’s tenure as director and primarily consist of his incoming and outgoing correspondence files. The letters, including three volumes of outgoing correspondence, relate to Observatory operations, research, and activities, particularly its cooperation with other astronomers and observatories from throughout the United States and abroad. Also chronicled are Shapley’s political activities, particularly during World War II, and his work with professional organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Shapley also continued the Observatory’s long tradition of employing women; his dedication to hiring and mentoring female astronomers is documented heavily throughout the record series, with letters to many women scientists and students, many of whom Shapley hired to work at the Observatory.

ArchivalResource: 42 cubic feet

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua40018/catalog View

Mayall, Margaret W. (Margaret Walton). Oral History interview with Margaret W. Mayall, 1986 August 11 and September 12.

Title: Oral History interview with Margaret W. Mayall, 1986 August 11 and September 12.

In this interview, Mayall discusses her childhood and early interest in astronomy; undergraduate years at Swarthmore College; work at Harvard College Observatory in the 1920s; the role of women at Harvard College Observatory, and in astronomy in general; memories of Edward Pickering; and the relationship between the American Association of Variable Star Observers and Harvard College Observatory. Mayall details her work with Annie Jump Cannon, including Cannons's personality and work habits, her skills in socializing, her work with variable start and her relationship with Cecilia Payne. Other contacts discussed include Antonia Maury, Cecilia Payne, Harlow Shapley, Donald Menzel, Adelaide Ames, Solon Bailey, and McGeorge Bundy.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 28 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305682 View

Harvard College Observatory astronomical notebook kept by Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 1912-1919

Title: Harvard College Observatory astronomical notebook kept by Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 1912-1919

The notebook, kept by Harvard College Observatory astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, is a handwritten research notebook containing her astronomical notes from 1912 to 1919. It has 56 pages of chronological notes, dating from August 1912 to September 1919, with most of the entries from 1912 to 1916. The notebook contains research plans, comments, progresses, measurements, discoveries, calculations, and some notes for assistants. The topics of the notebook include variables, the relationship between brightness and period of variables, Cepheid variables, Magellanic Clouds, and photographic plates.

ArchivalResource: 1 container.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019713370203941/catalog View

Astronomical and meteorological scrapbooks, 1843-1867 (inclusive).

Title: Astronomical and meteorological scrapbooks, 1843-1867 (inclusive).

ArchivalResource: 2 containers.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019704290203941/catalog View

Correspondence from the Office of the Director, 1926-1975 (inclusive), 1952-1966 (bulk).

Title: Correspondence from the Office of the Director, 1926-1975 (inclusive), 1952-1966 (bulk).

Includes correspondence and other records (architectural plans and laboratory notes), 1926-1975, of Donald H. Menzel, Acting Director of the Harvard Observatory, 1952-1954, and Director, 1952-1966. Also contains correspondence between Menzel and G.R. Huguenim (Director of the Radio Astronomy Laboratory), Prof. A.H. Jarrett, architect Lincoln Boyden, and Hector C. Ingrao, Senior Research Associate and Lecturer on Astronomy at Harvard. Most of the correspondence relates to the telescope(s) at Agassiz Station, as well as to the design of the Damon camera. Also includes correspondence about transferring instruments and equipment owned by Harvard from the Boyden Observatory in Bloemfontein, South Africa to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Other topics include the Boyden Fund; Boyden history; the Chester Cook Memorial Telescope; Hayden Planetarium Exhibits in New York City; Palomar Chart; the solar eclipse expedition to Mexico; the Menzel eclipse and expedition, 1970-73; and the Menzel symposium on solar physics. Correspondence before and after Menzel tenure as director is also included. Also includes extracts or copies of late 19th century documents relating to Uriah A. Boyden bequest.

ArchivalResource: .70 cubic foot in 2 containers.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990018538990203941/catalog View

Harvard College Observatory reports written by William Cranch Bond and Joseph Winlock, 1844-1874

Title: Harvard College Observatory reports written by William Cranch Bond and Joseph Winlock, 1844-1874

The Harvard College Observatory reports written by William Cranch Bond and Joseph Winlock contain full Harvard College Observatory annual reports and extracts, as well as appended documents, written by directors Bond and Winlock, dating from 1844 to 1874. The annual reports written by Bond were addressed to the Committee on the Observatory, and extracts written by Winlock were prepared for Harvard Visiting Committees and the Board of Overseers. The reports on specific astronomical topics include summaries on eclipses and occultations, moon culminations, comet and planet observations, meteors, the Meridian Circle, photographs of the sun, and photometry. There are also letters and reports written by Harvard College Observatory director William Cranch Bond to Harvard College president Edward Everett. The series also includes extracts from the Harvard College Observatory annual reports, which relate to the Observatory's buildings and grounds, equipment, and work completed.

ArchivalResource: 3 containers

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua19022/catalog View

Harvard honors women : several of them placed on the boards of visitors ; new and radical departure made by the overseers of the University ; Mrs. Henry Draper's services will now receive recognition ; Mrs. Fleming appointed curator of astronomical photographs, charged with their care, she is the first of her sex to have her name placed with the list of officers / Boston Herald, Jan. 16, 1899.

Title: Harvard honors women : several of them placed on the boards of visitors ; new and radical departure made by the overseers of the University ; Mrs. Henry Draper's services will now receive recognition ; Mrs. Fleming appointed curator of astronomical photographs, charged with their care, she is the first of her sex to have her name placed with the list of officers / Boston Herald, Jan. 16, 1899.

Newspaper article, chiefly concerning the Harvard College Observatory's employment and recognition of women.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77064748 View

Humason, Milton L. (Milton La Salle), 1891-1972. Papers of Milton La Salle Humason, 1930-1952.

Title: Papers of Milton La Salle Humason, 1930-1952.

The Humason papers have been arranged, with only minor changes, according to the manner in which they had been found in the attic of the Carnegie Observatories. The correspondence covers the years 1930-1952. It contains both incoming and carbons of outgoing correspondence. The collections also includes a few press releases, newsletters, one manuscript in German, some ephemera, several black-and-white photographs and two black-and-white slides. Notable participants include: Ansel Adams, Robert Aitken, Loyal Aldrich, Lawrence Aller, C. T. Elvey, G. F. Fassett, George Gamow, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Warren K. Green, John C. Hogg, Edwin Powell Hubble, Wilhelminia Iwanowska, Martin Johnson, H. Spencer Jones, Egbert A. Kreiken, Wasley Krogdahl, Oliver Justin Lee, J. H. Moore, Thornton Page, Upton Sinclair, William T. Skilling, Harold C. Urey, H. L. Vanderlinden, Edwin Wald, Fletcher G. Watson, Frederick Weiss, Astronomy charted, Boston Museum of Science, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Drake University, Grolier Society, Harvard College Observatory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles Astronomical Society, Physics today, Popular astronomy, Popular mechanics, Science illustrated, and Scientific American (this is only a partial list).

ArchivalResource: Approximately 2,100 items.5 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703886146 View

Standards of stellar magnitude: proposed plans and other records, 1880-1881 (inclusive).

Title: Standards of stellar magnitude: proposed plans and other records, 1880-1881 (inclusive).

Includes proposed plans, correspondence and other records relating to standards of stellar magnitude.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019707260203941/catalog View

Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966 (inclusive).

The Papers of Harlow Shapley document Shapley's research, professional, and political interests. They include the Papers of Martha Betz Shapley and some biographical and genealogical information.

ArchivalResource: 53 cubic feet in 167 containers.

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua03998/catalog View

Records of the Bursar, 1801-1957 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Bursar, 1801-1957 (inclusive).

Includes reports and correspondence of the Steward's and Bursar's Office. Routine records include vouchers, ledgers, accounts receivable, cash receipts, statements, invoice registers, payroll books, receiving slips, contracts, and reports Records relating to topics and events include student housing (room assignments), 1686-1925, students in the Spanish-American War, 1898, Harvard College Lottery, Patrons, Unemployment Relief Campaign, and Observatory Expeditions. Also contains material relating to University buildings, such as Sanders Theatre and Medical School Physiological Laboratory and the personal and official papers of Levi Farwell.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1,530 containers

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006041610203941/catalog View

Papers of Charles W. Eliot, 1869-1976 (inclusive)

Title: Papers of Charles W. Eliot, 1869-1976 (inclusive)

Contains addresses by Eliot. Also addresses, letters, and writings about Eliot; and Henry James' biography of Eliot, with author's annotations.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006040300203941/catalog View

Scrapbook, 1891-1892 (inclusive).

Title: Scrapbook, 1891-1892 (inclusive).

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019711390203941/catalog View

Records of the Director, George B. Field, ca.1972-1983 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Director, George B. Field, ca.1972-1983 (inclusive).

Miscellaneous records of G.B. Field, Director of the Observatory. Includes correspondence, memos, vitae, and other records relating to the Agassiz Station, the Optical Search Committee, the search for an assistant professor, and the establishment of the Menzel professorship.

ArchivalResource: 2 containers

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019675240203941/catalog View

Letter from John Quincy Adams to Josiah Quincy, 1845 May 19.

Title: Letter from John Quincy Adams to Josiah Quincy, 1845 May 19.

Framed double-sided letter from politician and educator John Quincy Adams to outgoing Harvard president Josiah Quincy. In his letter to Quincy, Adams requests information about the Harvard College Observatory, to be used in a report from the Board of Overseers' Committee on the Observatory. The four paged letter lists ten questions related to the Observatory, regarding its origins, finances and fundraising, property, staffing, scientific functions, and general astronomical publications. A note at the bottom of the third page states, “Letter found among the M.S.S. of President Quincy and presented to the Observatory by Eliza Susan Quincy, May 6, 1868.” Eliza Quincy was the daughter of Josiah Quincy.

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019703850203941/catalog View

Harvard College Observatory records related to the solar eclipse of 1869, 1868-1870

Title: Harvard College Observatory records related to the solar eclipse of 1869, 1868-1870

ArchivalResource: 5 containers

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua16022/catalog View

Records of the Director, Donald H. Menzel, 1951-1969.

Title: Records of the Director, Donald H. Menzel, 1951-1969.

Donald Howard Menzel (1901-1976), astronomer and astrophysicist, served as director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1952 until his retirement in 1966. The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Donald H. Menzel consist chiefly of incoming and outgoing letters with a variety of correspondents, including many notable scientists from the United States and abroad, and document the research and administrative activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1951 to 1969. Also chronicled is Menzel's work with professional organizations and government agencies, particularly the Smithsonian Institution.

ArchivalResource: 73 containers.

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua23020/catalog View

Papers of Annie Jump Cannon, 1863-1978.

Title: Papers of Annie Jump Cannon, 1863-1978.

The papers of Annie Jump Cannon document both her personal and professional activities. They contain diaries, autobiographical writings, correspondence, manuscripts of writings and speeches, notes, photographs, and memorabilia (including scrapbooks, guest books, autograph books, clippings, diplomas, and ephemera). This collection also includes papers of Margaret Mayall about Annie Jump Cannon.

ArchivalResource: 12 cubic feet in 35 boxes and 4 folders.

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua12001/catalog View

Correspondence, ca. 1835-1880.

Title: Correspondence, ca. 1835-1880.

Chiefly manuscript letters to Benjamin Peirce from various correspondents, including Louis Agassiz, A. D. Bache, Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Joseph Henry, Charles S. Peirce, and James Mills Peirce, among others. Letters concern the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Dudley Observatory, and U.S. coastal surveys. Also includes empty scrapbook covers that formerly housed letters.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes (9 linear ft.)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01552/catalog View

Willard P. Gerrish papers, Gerrish (Willard P.) papers, (bulk 1896-1920), 1874-1937

Title: Willard P. Gerrish papers Gerrish (Willard P.) papers (bulk 1896-1920) 1874-1937

The Willard P. Gerrish papers include a travel journal, specifications, blueprints and photographs of various telescopes and mounts, along with related technical writings by Gerrish on specific engineering projects, from 1896 to 1920. Household receipts and correspondence comprise a large portion of the collection. Also included are legal documents and correspondence regarding the estate of his father, William H. Gerrish, and high school copy books belonging to his sisters Isabel and Mary.

ArchivalResource:

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2005.80&view=title View

Letters to Charles H. Rockwell, 1883-1884.

Title: Letters to Charles H. Rockwell, 1883-1884.

Three letters with enclosures written by Seth Carlo Chandler to Charles Rockwell. Letters concern an astronomical instrument built under Chandler's supervision for Rockwell. There are references in the letters to Chandler's work on the almucantar at the Harvard College Observatory.

ArchivalResource: 3 letters + enclosures.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990080471090203941/catalog View

Records of the Harvard College Observatory : Photographs, 1887-[ca. 1930? and undated]

Title: Records of the Harvard College Observatory : Photographs, 1887-[ca. 1930? and undated]

These photographs depict the staff activities, including travel and research, of the Harvard College Observatory as well as the the landscape, buildings, and equipment in Cambridge and at observatory stations in Colorado, California, Jamaica, and South America (chiefly Peru). Research was primarily astronomical, but also included some meteorological observation. Approximately half the photographs depict South America.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1200 photographs (4.2 cubic feet ; 46 flat boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04009/catalog View

Papers, 1890-1997 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1890-1997 (inclusive).

Articles by and about Helen Thomas and her work on the history of variable star observation. Also interview transcript describing MIT's Radiation Laboratory, information about the Trans World Airlines "Cosmic Contest," photographs of radar on U.S. Navy warships, 1941-1945, and family photographs, 1890-1922.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft.

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00456/catalog View

Budgets 1976-1978 (inclusive)

Title: Budgets 1976-1978 (inclusive)

ArchivalResource: .3 cubic foot in 1 container.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990075019390203941/catalog View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7060 View

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Phillips Library, 1858-1941

Title: Records of the Harvard College Observatory Phillips Library, 1858-1941

The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Phillips Library contain eight bound volumes, mostly dating from 1858 to approximately 1932, documenting the publications received by the library. The volumes, classified by the Harvard College Observatory as accession books, a memorandum book, and stock books, record information such as the date the volume was procured, accession number, author, title, publisher location and year, volume numbers, source, and notes about the publication.

ArchivalResource: 8 containers

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua21022/catalog View

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, 1845-1865

Title: Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, 1845-1865

The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, consisting of correspondence and subject files, manuscript drafts, and astronomical data, chiefly document the research activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1859 to 1865. Chronicled are observations of planets, including Mars and Jupiter; efforts to determine the brightness of stars; and the detection of comets, eclipses, and other astronomical phenomena. George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), an astronomer, was the director of the Harvard College Observatory and Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard from 1859 to 1865.

ArchivalResource: 26 containers

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua19018/catalog View

Papers of Truman Henry Safford, ca. 1865-1866 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Truman Henry Safford, ca. 1865-1866 (inclusive).

Consists of correspondence and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 1 container.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006043680203941/catalog View

Student records : students of Irwin Shapiro ca. 1963-1982 (inclusive)

Title: Student records : students of Irwin Shapiro ca. 1963-1982 (inclusive)

Contains copies of examinations, theses and thesis proposals, as well as correspondence, grade sheets, and other records of students of Irwin Shapiro; records pertain chiefly to Massachusetts Institute of Technology students.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic feet in 12 containers.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990074928070203941/catalog View

Records relating to Harvard Observatory series, 1940.

Title: Records relating to Harvard Observatory series, 1940.

Includes records relating to Harvard Observatory series. For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

ArchivalResource: 2 containers

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019713510203941/catalog View

Harvard University Archives Visual Collections - Locations File, Chronological, ca.1650- (inclusive), 1752- (bulk).

Title: Harvard University Archives Visual Collections - Locations File, Chronological, ca.1650- (inclusive), 1752- (bulk).

Collection consists of approximately 5,000 views of Harvard University, including paintings, drawings, engravings, etchings, lithographs, postcards, calendars, illustrated books, and photographs. These include conjectural views of 17th century College buildings by Harold Shurtleff; several 18th century views, such as the Burgis-Price Views and paintings by John Abbot; the 19th century Hinton Views and Quincy Bicentennial View; a proposed plan for Harvard Yard, by H.H. Richardson; three photographic architectural surveys of the University, made in the 1920s and 1930s; and photographs of Tercentenary activities in 1936. For additional views and related material, see the following collections at the University Archives: Locations File, Geographic (HUV1-1999); Buildings (HUB); Math theses (HUC8782.514PF); Buildings Records (UAI.15); and Departmental Records (UAV).

ArchivalResource: ca. 5,000 views.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006041840203941/catalog View

Harvard College Observatory, 1929

Title: Harvard College Observatory 1929

Two volumes produced by Harvard College Observatory: Projects planned for future development of the observatory and Hub of the Universe.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.522.1.H265d-ead.xml View

Records of Director, Joseph Winlock, 1866-1875 (inclusive).

Title: Records of Director, Joseph Winlock, 1866-1875 (inclusive).

Joseph Winlock (1826-1875) was an astronomer and mathematician who served as the third director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1866 until his death on June 11, 1875. The records document Joseph Winlock's tenure as director, and primarily consist of Winlock's incoming and outgoing correspondence files. The letters relate to Observatory publications, relationships with other scientific institutions, and discussions of astronomical and meteorological information. The records also include a bound volume of drafts and memoranda related to Observatory funds, which provides some insight into the Observatory’s finances from 1866 to 1874.

ArchivalResource: 5.27 cubic feet

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua09018/catalog View

Correspondence and other records from the Administrative Officer of the Observatory, 1953-1985 (inclusive).

Title: Correspondence and other records from the Administrative Officer of the Observatory, 1953-1985 (inclusive).

Includes general administrative records of R.G. Reed, Administrative Officer, and of the Administrative Assistant of the Observatory. For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

ArchivalResource: 12 containers.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019673780203941/catalog View

Grant proposals 1961-1968 (inclusive)

Title: Grant proposals 1961-1968 (inclusive)

Contains material pertaining to grants for construction of new buildings; includes correspondence, drafts of proposals, and diagrams and drawings of the buildings.

ArchivalResource: .7 cubic foot in 2 containers.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990075019380203941/catalog View

Photographs : construction of the Agassiz Station, 1961.

Title: Photographs : construction of the Agassiz Station, 1961.

Consists of 8"x10" black-and-white photographs of Agassiz Station at various stages of construction, 1961.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 cubic foot in 26 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990036262660203941/catalog View

Records of E. S. King, 1913-1931 (inclusive).

Title: Records of E. S. King, 1913-1931 (inclusive).

Includes correspondence, mostly about Observatory matters, from Edward Skinner King, a professor at Harvard.

ArchivalResource: 1 container

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019672840203941/catalog View

Papers of Fred Lawrence Whipple, 1929-1997

Title: Papers of Fred Lawrence Whipple, 1929-1997

The Papers of Fred Lawrence Whipple document his studies in astronomy and astrophysics while at the Harvard College Observatory and at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with colleagues, friends, students, university officials, amateur astronomers, professional associations, and government agencies. It also includes a small amount of material related to the subject matter Whipple taught at Harvard University.

ArchivalResource: 12 cubic feet

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua01003/catalog View

C.P.E. Burgwyn's determination of longitude of the Harvard College Observatory, 1876

Title: C.P.E. Burgwyn's determination of longitude of the Harvard College Observatory, 1876

Handwritten report by C.P.E. Burgwyn, created for the Harvard College Observatory, discussing the determination of longitude of the Observatory. The report is sixteen pages and includes various data and calculations. Burgwyn presumably worked on the project as part of his studies in Civil Engineering at the Lawrence Scientific School.

ArchivalResource: 6 containers

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99155988572403941/catalog View

Papers of William Henry Pickering, 1870-1907

Title: Papers of William Henry Pickering, 1870-1907

William Henry Pickering (1858-1938) was an American astronomer. He was an enthusiastic explorer, charged with expeditions to view solar eclipses and with establishing observatories for Harvard University in Peru, Arizona, and Jamaica. The collection contains a mix of personal, family, and astronomical materials including letters, notes, data, drawings, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic feet

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua09014/catalog View

Records of the Associate Director, Bart J. Bok, 1913-1957 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Associate Director, Bart J. Bok, 1913-1957 (inclusive).

Includes administrative files and Agassiz and Boyden Station files from B.J. Bok, Associate Director and professor. For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

ArchivalResource: 5 containers.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019671250203941/catalog View

Subject files from Office of the Director, 1960-1978 (inclusive).

Title: Subject files from Office of the Director, 1960-1978 (inclusive).

Special subjects, including correpsondence, memos, meeting agendas, minutes, and other records relating to Solar Probe Mission, recruitment, Ballon Project, NSF Grant, Harvard College Observatory Council, Southern Hemisphere Telescope, Fort Davis, and other proejcts, committees, etc. Materials relate especially to directorships of Alexander Dalgarno, Acting Director, 1971-72, and George Field, 1972-82.

ArchivalResource: 5 containers

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990019674910203941/catalog View

Harvard University collection of reference materials relating to academic departments, research centers, laboratories, etc., ca. 1790-

Title: Harvard University collection of reference materials relating to academic departments, research centers, laboratories, etc., ca. 1790-

A collection of reference materials in the Harvard University Archives relating to academic departments, research centers, laboratories, museums, libraries, and selected offices at or related to Harvard University. Contains official University publications, such as annual, technical and other reports, directories, and manuals, as well as periodicals and research publications issued by the unit. Examples are newsletters, bulletins, preprints, and occasionsl papers. Other material includes clippings, articles and news releases about the departments, etc.; leaflets; forms and notices; photographs and tape recordings; student lists; and financial statements. Substantial amounts of material exist for the following units: Arnold Arboretum; Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe; Astronomical Observatory; Center for Astrophysics; Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory; Botanical Museum; Cambridge Electron Accelerator; Chemical Laboratories; Museum of Comparative Zoology; Computing Center of Harvard University; Cruft Laboratory; Dumbarton Oaks; East Asian Research Center; Harvard Economic Research Project; Division of Engineering and Applied Physics; Farlow Library and Herbarium; Fogg Art Museum; Harvard Forest; Busch-Reisinger Museum; Office of Career Services; Gray Herbarium; University Health Services; Office for Information Technology; Center for International Affairs; Harvard Institute for International Development; Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; The Library; Music Department; Peabody Museum; Personnel Office; Institute of Politics; Center for Population Studies; Harvard University Press; Department of Printing and Graphic Arts; Psychological Laboratory; Department of Psychology and Social Relations; Russian Research Center; Harvard Semitic Museum; Bureau of Study Counsel; Ukrainian Research Institute; Center for Urban Studies; and the Yenching Institute. This is a select list and does not include all of the units represented in the collection.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3608 containers.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006042160203941/catalog View

Astronomical geophysics : notes of a course presented in 1954 at Harvard College Observatory / by Dr. Menzel. 1954.

Title: Astronomical geophysics : notes of a course presented in 1954 at Harvard College Observatory / by Dr. Menzel. 1954.

ArchivalResource: 19 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Edward C. Pickering, 1854-1926

Title: Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Edward C. Pickering, 1854-1926

Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), a physicist and astronomer, was the director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1876 to 1919, as well as, Phillips Professor of Astronomy and Geodesy (1876-1887) and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy (1887-1919). Pickering’s records as Observatory Director, consisting chiefly of correspondence, document the research activities and administration of the Harvard College Observatory from 1854 to 1926. During Pickering’s administration, the Observatory's principal areas of research included programs in photometric, photographic, and spectroscopic stellar investigations. Pickering built an extensive library of photographic plates at Harvard, established an observing station in Arequipa, Peru, to achieve worldwide coverage of the sky, and employed women to carry out the Observatory's photographic and spectroscopic programs.

ArchivalResource: 168 containers.

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[Log observing notebooks] [1961-1980] 1961-1980.

Title: [Log observing notebooks] [1961-1980] 1961-1980.

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Neupert, Werner. Werner Neupert collection on the Orbiting Solar Observatory Program, bulk 1957-1968.

Title: Werner Neupert collection on the Orbiting Solar Observatory Program, bulk 1957-1968.

This collection consists Werner Neupert's files and collection of publications relating to the Orbiting Solar Observatories and and the experiments associated with each. Much of the collection documents artifacts in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, transferred from NASA by Neupert. Included are a loose-leaf notebook of charts and graphs detailing the "Bendix Electron Multiplier Tests," a loose-leaf reproduction of the June 1957 SID 66-1338-7 "Appendix 7: Ion Chambers for Detection of Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation;" publications by contractor Ball Brothers Research Corporation; minutes of NASA's Solar Physics Subcommittee of the Space Science Steering Committee; a binder of the 1962 ZETA Command Schedule and data; the original stenographic transcript of the 14 March 1963 NASA Satellite Symposium (with lantern slides); and miscellaneous material that includes original strip chart recordings of OSO-1 telemetry. Reports found in this collection include: Appraisal and Recommendations on the Orbiting Solar Observatory Program from NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications, 1968; Space Research: Directions for the Future (Parts 1, 2 and 3), published by the Space Science Board, National Academy of Sciences, 1965 and 1966; NASA Reports to the Space Science Board; NASA's America's Next Decades in Space: A Report for the Space Task Group, 1966; Solar Satellite Report from the Harvard College Observatory, 1967; and Goddard Space Flight Center's Twenty-Year Mission Plan.

ArchivalResource: 2.18 cubic feet (2 records center boxes).

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Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867. Alexander Dallas Bache Papers, 1821-1869

Title: Alexander Dallas Bache Papers, 1821-1869

The papers of Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) relate to his study of European education, his appointment as Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, his professional intercourse with other scientists on a broad range of topics, his own research, and his work on the United States Lighthouse Board. They include diaries, 1836-1837, of his study of educational institutions in Britain; correspondence, 1821-1866, documenting his European trip, his work on education during the years 1839-1841, and his contact with the American scientific community; small collections of papers concerning the Coast Survey, the Lighthouse Board, and the Smithsonian Institution; letters to his wife, Nancy Clarke Fowler Bache; and a small collection of posthumous papers.

ArchivalResource: 3.47 cu. ft. (5 document boxes) (3 half document boxes) (2 microfilm reels) (6 oversize folders)

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Astronomical notebook : manuscript, 1872-1873.

Title: Astronomical notebook : manuscript, 1872-1873.

ArchivalResource: 29 leaves, partly bound ; 12 x 21 cm.

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