Winslow Upton papers Upton (Winslow) papers circa 1876-1969

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Winslow Upton papers Upton (Winslow) papers circa 1876-1969

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The collection comprises diaries, astonomical observation notebooks, scrapbooks, lecture notes, peronal and professional correspondence, as well as photographs, various tributes to Professor Upton, and a memoir written by his daughters.

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John Hay Library, Special Collections

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Upton, Winslow, 1853-1914

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Winslow Upton (born in Salem, Massachusetts, 12 October 1853; died Providence, Rhode Island, 8 January 1914) was a United States astronomer. He graduated from Brown University. He was an assistant at the Harvard Observatory for several years, then assistant engineer of the Army Engineer Corps' Lake Survey. Upton became a computer at the Naval Observatory in Washington in 1880. He worked with the United States Signal Office from 1881 to 1883. In May of 1883 he accompanied a group of scientists to...

Brown University. Dept. of Astronomy.

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Ladd Observatory

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...