Harvard College Observatory
Organization
Found in 245 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous Notes and Work Plans, 1862/1869 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
Related Materials
Item — Box 79Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1878
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations and data calculations spanning the early history of the Harvard College Observatory from 1848 until 1877, though most materials date to the subsequent directorships of H.C.O. founder William Cranch Bond and then his son George Phillips Bond prior to his death 1866. Astronomers whose work is represented in this series include: William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond, Richard F. Bond, Benjamin Pierce, Charles W. Tuttle, Horace P....
Miscellaneous Observations and Reductions, 1878 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Early Variable Star Work
Item — Box 13Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0471
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Miscellaneous Star Observations, 1890 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Meridian Circle Work, Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 77Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1847
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
MWF 175, 1935 Digital
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Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
The HCO in the 20th c. and the Work of the Astronomical Computers
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Sub-Series:
Milky Way Field (MWF) and HLF Calculations
Item Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra2577
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...
Nautical Almanac, 1883 Digital
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Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Administrative Reports, Journals, and Memoranda
Item — Box 76Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1828
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Notes on SMP, 1892 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Related Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 72Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1719
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Observation of Southern Variable Stars, 1899/1904 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Early Variable Star Work
Item — Box 76Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1827
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Omicron Ceti, lambda Cygnus, S Cancri, beta Persei, 1838/1854 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Early Variable Star Work
Item — Box 13Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0466
Scope and Contents:
See KG11366.868 for R21
Orbit of Asteroids 109 and 112, 1871/1874 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
Item — Box 11Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0432
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
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.
Papers of Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas, 1890-1997
FOUND IN:
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: SC 142
Overview:
Papers of Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas, Radcliffe College Class of 1928.
Papers of Henrietta Hill Swope, 1917-1982
FOUND IN:
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: 82-M146 – 85-M7
Overview:
Papers of astronomer Henrietta Hill Swope.
Planet and Satellite Observations, 1877 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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File:
Miscellaneous
Item — Box 72Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1714
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Planetary Positions (Heliocentric), 1750/1860 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
Related Materials
Item — Box 11Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0434
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations and data calculations spanning the early history of the Harvard College Observatory from 1848 until 1877, though most materials date to the subsequent directorships of H.C.O. founder William Cranch Bond and then his son George Phillips Bond prior to his death 1866. Astronomers whose work is represented in this series include: William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond, Richard F. Bond, Benjamin Pierce, Charles W. Tuttle, Horace P....
Plates to be Examined re. Peters' Zones, 1877/1878 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Meridian Circle Work, Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 79Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1871
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Polar Catalog Observations and Reductions, 1885 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Meridian Circle Work, Observations and Reductions
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File:
Polar Catalog Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 68Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1623
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Polar Catalog Observations and Reductions, 1885 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Meridian Circle Work, Observations and Reductions
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File:
Polar Catalog Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 68Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1624
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Posting Book, 1897/1908 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Related Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 12Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0440
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Re-readings of Chronograph Sheets, 1880 Digital
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Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
Item — Box 77Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1836
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Readings of the Sun, 1879 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Related Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 68Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1626
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory kept by Willard Peabody Gerrish
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.25
Overview:
Willard Peabody Gerrish (1866-1951) was an assistant professor of astronomy at the Harvard College Observatory, where he worked under Edward Charles Pickering and, later, Harlow Shapley, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The records contain three volumes of letterbooks, booklets, blueprints, and correspondence dating from 1887 to 1939. The correspondence is between the Harvard College Observatory and other Harvard University departments, companies, and observatories...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory : Research contract files related to the solar observatory at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.280
Overview:
The Sacramento Peak Observatory was a United States Air Force research facility dedicated to solar-terrestrial studies, with special contracts to the Harvard College Observatory for examinations of the Sun, solar activity, cosmic radiation, the
sources of radio noise, and the upper atmosphere. Reports, correspondence, contracts, proposals, notes, and financial statements document the Harvard College Observatory's contributions to the establishment and operation of the Sacramento Peak...
Reduction of Bonn Observations from 1855 to 1875, 1892 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Related Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 76Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1814
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Reduction of Observations by Schmidt by Reed, 1873 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Related Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 72Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1721
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
Reductions, 1888/1890 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Related Observations and Reductions
Item — Box 77Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1832
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...
REFINE MY RESULTS:
- Type
- Archival Object 188
- Collection 57
- Subject
- Variable stars. 31
- Astronomy -- Observations. 11
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 7
- Asteroids. 6
- Astronomy -- Research. 6
- Chronograph. 6
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 6
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 6
- Astronomers -- United States. 5
- Astronomical photometry. 5
- Astronomy. 5
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 5
- Photographs 5
- Telescopes. 5
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 4
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 4
- Correspondence. 4
- Diaries 4
- Meteors. 4
- Time measurements. 4
- Astronomy -- History. 3
- Chronometers. 3
- Comets. 3
- Financial records. 3
- Stars -- Clusters. 3
- Sun -- Research. 3
- Women astronomers--United States 3
- Amateur astronomy. 2
- Asteroids--Orbits. 2
- Astronomers 2
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 2
- Astronomical photography. 2
- Boyden Station (Bloemfontein, South Africa) 2
- Horology. 2
- Manuscripts (documents) 2
- Milky Way 2
- Nebulae. 2
- Observatories. 2
- Occultations. 2
- Photoprints. 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Scientists 2
- Scientists--United States 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Time -- Systems and standards -- United States. 2
- Women in astronomy -- History. 2
- Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.) 1
- Account books. 1
- Aging--United States 1
- Albums. 1
- American Association of Variable Star Observers. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Astrometry 1
- Astronomers -- Archives. 1
- Astronomers--United States 1
- Astronomers. 1
- Astronomical instruments 1
- Astronomical observatories -- South Africa. 1
- Astronomy 1
- Astronomy -- Societies, etc. 1
- Astronomy -- Study and teaching. 1
- Astrophysics. 1
- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Autobiographies 1
- Autobiographies. 1
- Black-and-white photographs 1
- Black-and-white photographs. 1
- Boyden Station (Arequipa, Peru) 1
- Clocks and watches -- Marketing. 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
- Contracts. 1
- Cryptography. 1
- Diplomas. 1
- Donati comet. 1
- Drawings 1
- Eclipses, Solar -- 1973. 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Family records 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Glass plate negatives 1
- Harvard College Observatory (Cambridge, MA) 1
- Harvard College Observatory -- Photographs. 1
- Harvard University -- Finance. 1
- Harvard University -- Women. 1
- Immigrants' writings, German 1
- Lantern slides. 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Letterpress copybooks. 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Letters. 1
- Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Maine. 1
- Manuscripts for publication 1
- Maps 1
- Medals 1
- Memoirs 1 ∧ less
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