Records of the Director, 1863-1958 (inclusive).

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Records of the Director, 1863-1958 (inclusive).

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General material includes accounts; records of expenditures; payrolls and other financial records; computations including those of chronometric expedition; observational data; research contracts, for solar observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico; drawings of 1858 comet and celestial objects by E.L. Trouvelet; photographs of Peruvian station; shipment list; payroll and other items. This material was generated by the research stations in Peru, South Africa, the Mandeville Station in Jamaica, and the Observatory in Cambridge. For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

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Harvard University Archives.

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