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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Margaret Mayall personal archive
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 294
Overview:
Margaret Walton Mayall (1902-1995) was an American astronomer. After receiving her MA from Radcliffe College in 1928, she began working at the Harvard College Observatory. This collection contains 35 black and white photographs, which depict the Harvard College Observatory staff camping in southeastern Maine to watch the total solar eclipse on August 31, 1932. Also includes Mayall’s 1957 G. Bruce Blair Award and a copy of Mayall’s 1970 Manual for Observing Variable...
Papers of Dorrit Hoffleit, 1906-2005
FOUND IN:
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 529
Overview:
Papers of Dorrit Hoffleit, astronomer at Harvard and Yale Universities and at the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket.
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- Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.) 1
- Aging--United States 1
- American Association of Variable Star Observers. 1
- Astrometry 1
- Astronomers 1
- Astronomers -- United States. 1
- Astronomy 1
- Astronomy -- Research. 1
- Astronomy. 1
- Autobiographies 1
- Black-and-white photographs 1
- Diaries 1
- Drawings 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Harvard College Observatory -- Photographs. 1
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 1
- Harvard University -- Women. 1
- Immigrants' writings, German 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Maine. 1
- Manuscripts for publication 1
- Medals 1
- Memoirs 1
- Mothers and daughters--United States 1
- Nantucket (Mass.) 1
- Obituaries 1
- Older women--United States 1
- Poems 1
- Scientists 1
- Scientists--United States 1
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- United States Naval Observatory -- Photographs. 1
- Variable stars--Catalogs 1
- Women in astronomy -- History. 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Women 1 ∧ less
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