Solon Irving Bailey Notebooks, 1894-1923
Dates
- Creation: 1894-1923
Language of Materials
English
Extent
120 cubic feet (120 boxes)2531 Volumes
Biographical / Historical
Solon Irving Bailey (1854 – 1931) was the acting Director of the Harvard College Observatory after Edward Pickering died in 1919 and until Harlow Shapley was elected in 1921. A graduate of Boston University, Bailey spent much of his early career as a teacher and then headmaster at Tilton Academy in Concord. It’s unclear what might’ve led to Bailey’s eventual interest in astronomical scholarship, though some accounts suggest it was the Great Meteor Shower of 1866 that inspired him to move his family to Cambridge in pursuit of his second master’s degree at Harvard University. Soon afterwards, Bailey became a volunteer assistant at the observatory, and he eventually accepted a professorship in Harvard’s Astrophysics department. A close associate of Pickering, Bailey worked for the H.C.O. for forty-four years, and played a significant role in overseeing site location and construction of the first Boyden Station in Arequipa, Peru.
Creator
- From the Series: Harvard College Observatory (Organization)
- From the Series: Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens, 1857-1911 (Person)
- From the Series: Leland, Evelyn, 1870-1930 (Person)
- From the Series: Bailey, Solon I. (Solon Irving), 1854-1931 (Person)
- From the Series: Leavitt, Henrietta Swan, 1868-1921 (Person)
- From the Series: King, Edward Skinner, 1861-1931 (Person)
- From the Series: Breslin, Sarah E. (Person)
- From the Series: Cannon, Annie Jump, 1863-1941 (Person)
- From the Series: Campbell, Leon, 1881-1951 (Person)
- From the Series: Mackie, Johanna C.S. (Person)
- From the Series: Woods, Ida E., 1870-1940 (Person)
- From the Series: O'Reilly, Mollie E. (Person)
- From the Series: Matthews, Genevieve F. (Person)
- From the Series: Locke, Hannah (Smith) (Person)
- From the Series: Block, Dorothy W. (Person)
- From the Series: Applegate, Mary D. (Person)
- From the Series: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne, 1900-1979 (Person)
- From the Series: Gaposchkin, Sergei, 1898- (Person)
- From the Series: Mayall, Margaret W. (Margaret Walton) (Person)
- From the Series: Anger, Carol Jane, 1908-1999 (Person)
- From the Series: Hoffleit, Dorrit (Person)
- From the Series: Nail, Virginia McKibben , 1911-1992 (Person)
- From the Series: Ashbrook, Martha Dowse (Person)
- From the Series: Ames, Adelaide (Person)
- From the Series: Boyce, Emily Hughes (Person)
- From the Series: Matthews, Mildred Shapley, 1915-2016 (Person)
- From the Series: Caldwell, Irma W. (Person)
- From the Series: Mohr, Jenka (Person)
- From the Series: Mussells, Sylvia F. (Person)
- From the Series: Brasch, Frederick E. (Frederick Edward), 1875-1967 (Person)
- From the Series: Whipple, Fred Lawrence 1906- (Person)
- From the Series: Budreski, Mattei (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University Repository
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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