Oral history interview with Dorothy Davis Locanthi, 1977 August 3.

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Oral history interview with Dorothy Davis Locanthi, 1977 August 3.

Covers professional career at Vassar and Smith Colleges, association with Henry Norris Russell and his family, International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting in Stockholm 1939, and work during World War II.

Transcript: 8 p.

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