Harvard College Observatory
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.349
Overview:
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Chronometric Expedition was carried out by the Harvard College Observatory, under the direction of William Cranch Bond and in conjunction with the United States Coast Survey. The expedition used chronometers that were made by William Bond & Son, the Bond family's private business, to determine differences of longitude between the observatories in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Liverpool, England. The records primarily consist of notebooks, data sheets,...
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.6
Overview:
The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, consisting of correspondence and subject files, manuscript drafts, and astronomical data, chiefly document the research activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1859 to 1865. Chronicled are observations of planets, including Mars and Jupiter; efforts to determine the brightness of stars; and the detection of comets, eclipses, and other astronomical phenomena. George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), an astronomer,...
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.2
Overview:
The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond document the founding, growth, and scientific research of the Harvard College Observatory primarily from 1840 to 1859. Also chronicled is the Observatory’s participation in advances made in astronomy, stellar photography, meteorology, continental exploration, and technological improvements in astronomical instruments in the early nineteenth century. William Cranch Bond (1789-1859), American astronomer and instrument...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Time Service
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Sub-Fonds Identifier: UAV 630.377
Overview:
In 1872, under Director Joseph Winlock, the Harvard College Observatory established the world’s first public time service, which it provided as a commercial service until 1892. The Observatory sold its time service to railroads and businesses by sending hourly signals over Boston’s fire alarm system and distributing time across the region via Western Union telegraph lines; this work eventually resulted in the establishment of the country's first time zone. The Records of the Harvard College...
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.
The HCO in the 20th c. and the Work of the Astronomical Computers, 1886-1973, bulk: 1900-1935
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
Series Identifier: KG11365-6
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and research notes produced by astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory throughout the first half of the 20th century. Most of the materials date between 1900 and 1935.Astronomers whose work is represented in this series include: Williamina Fleming, Evelyn Leland, Solon Irving Bailey, Antonia Maury, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Edward S. King, Sarah E. Breslin, Annie Jump Cannon, Boris Petrovich Gerasmovich, Leon...
William Bond & Son records and Bond family papers, 1724-1931 (inclusive), 1769-1923 (bulk)
Collection Identifier: hsi00001Overview:
This collection consists of personal papers of clock maker and astronomer William Cranch Bond (1789-1859) and his family, the records of the company William Bond & Son, of Boston, Massachusetts, some records of the Harvard College Observatory, papers of J. Morton Clinch, photographs, printed material, and medals and watches, dated from 1724 to 1931.
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- Astronomers -- United States. 5
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 4
- Time measurements. 4
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 3
- Astronomy -- History. 3
- Astronomy -- Research. 3
- Chronometers. 3
- Correspondence. 3
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 3
- Photographs 3
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 3
- Variable stars. 3
- Women astronomers--United States 3
- Amateur astronomy. 2
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 2
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 2
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 2
- Astronomical photography. 2
- Astronomical photometry. 2
- Astronomy -- Observations. 2
- Astronomy. 2
- Chronograph. 2
- Diaries 2
- Financial records. 2
- Horology. 2
- Nebulae. 2
- Occultations. 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Stars -- Clusters. 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Telescopes. 2
- Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.) 1
- Account books. 1
- Aging--United States 1
- American Association of Variable Star Observers. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids--Orbits. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astrometry 1
- Astronomers 1
- Astronomers--United States 1
- Astronomy 1
- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Autobiographies 1
- Black-and-white photographs 1
- Clocks and watches -- Marketing. 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
- Comets. 1
- Donati comet. 1
- Drawings 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Harvard College Observatory -- Photographs. 1
- Harvard University -- Women. 1
- Immigrants' writings, German 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Maine. 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Manuscripts for publication 1
- Medals 1
- Memoirs 1
- Meteorology -- Observations 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors -- Orbits 1
- Meteors. 1
- Mothers and daughters--United States 1
- Nantucket (Mass.) 1
- Obituaries 1
- Older women--United States 1
- Orion Nebula 1
- Planets--Brightness. 1
- Planets--Orbits. 1
- Planets. 1
- Poems 1
- Refracting telescopes. 1
- Scientific Instruments. 1
- Scientists 1
- Scientists--United States 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Time -- Systems and standards -- United States. 1
- Time-signals. 1
- United States Naval Observatory -- Photographs. 1
- Variable stars -- Spectra 1
- Variable stars--Catalogs 1
- Women in astronomy -- History. 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Women 1 ∧ less
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