Correspondence and other records from the Administrative Officer of the Harvard College Observatory, 1959-1983 (inclusive).

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Correspondence and other records from the Administrative Officer of the Harvard College Observatory, 1959-1983 (inclusive).

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Correspondence, memoranda and other documents relating to Observatory meetings and special events such as symposia and colloquia. Documents also relate to the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, Texas; computer science at Harvard and the use of computers at the Observatory; new building and new parking spaces (1959); planning for building telescope in Chile to be jointly operated by Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale University; incorporation of the Northeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (NARA). Records are identified as those of administrative officers, Robert Gould Reed and John Allen (the latter during years 1981-1982), and a few of Julie Bisbee, who was Director for Administration in 1983.

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Harvard University Archives.

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