Letterbooks and correspondence ca. 1892-1947.

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Letterbooks and correspondence ca. 1892-1947.

Includes George Ellery Hale letterbooks (outgoing correspondence), March 27, 1893-December 12, 1902; also incoming correspondence for the period 1892-1902; thereafter correspondence up to 1947.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8283350

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Yerkes Observatory

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Yerkes Observatory, located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, is a facility of the University of Chicago's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The observatory opened in 1897 as the joint creation of three founders: William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago; Professor George E. Hale, the observatory's first director; and Charles T. Yerkes, a wealthy Chicago businessman who provided funds for the erection of the observatory building. Known as the home of the last of t...

Yerkes Observatory. Office of the Director.

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