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

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

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These photographs depict the activities, personnel, and research of the Harvard College Observatory, including Observatory personnel, buildings, equipment, and surrounding landscape in Cambridge and at observatory stations in Colorado, California, possibly Jamaica, and South America (chiefly Peru). Research was primarily astronomical, but involved some meteorological observation to determine where the Observatory stations should be sited. Approximately 600 of the photographs depict South America.

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

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6385420

Harvard University Archives.

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