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Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition
Records of the Harvard College Observatory: circular letters, notices, and forms
The circular letters, notices, and forms in this series document activities and operations related to the Harvard College Observatory from 1877 to 1949. The Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (founded in 1890) merged in 1973 to form The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The Center is a research institute that carries out studies in astronomy, astrophysics, earth and space sciences, and science education.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Donald H. Menzel
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Leo Goldberg
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director's Office
Records of the Harvard College Observatory : Observations of zodiacal light and the gegenschein
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Phillips Library
The Harvard College Observatory's Phillips Library was founded in 1848. The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Phillips Library contain eight bound volumes, mostly dating from 1858 to approximately 1932, which document the published works obtained by the library.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory : Photographs, 1887-approximately 1930? and undated
Records of the Harvard College Observatory: records kept by Administrative Officer Robert G. Reed
Records of the Harvard College Observatory: records of the Administrative Assistant to Director Donald H. Menzel kept by Velma A. Adams and Helen S. Federer
The records in this series, kept by Velma A. Adams and Helen S. Federer, document the restoration program of the Harvard College Observatory, which was led by Donald H. Menzel and aimed to replace aging buildings and equipment, centralize financial management, simplify business processes, and support the Observatory's scientific program between 1953 and 1964.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory: records related to astronomical research
Records of the Harvard College Observatory relating to meteor research kept by Willard J. Fisher
Willard James Fisher (1867-1934), physicist and astronomer, was a Harvard Lecturer of Astronomy and Research Associate at the Harvard College Observatory from 1922 to 1934. Fisher's fields of interest were lunar eclipse phenomena and meteoric astronomy. This series documents Willard J. Fisher's meteor research from 1924 to 1934 conducted at the Harvard College Observatory.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory relating to photographic photometry kept by Edward S. King
Edward Skinner King (1861-1931), an astronomer, was an observer (1887-1913), assistant professor (1913-1926), and Phillips Professor of Astronomy (1926-1931) at the Harvard College Observatory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This series documents King's work in photographic photometry, a technique used in astronomy to measure the flux or intensity of light radiated by astronomical objects, at the Harvard College Observatory from 1899 to 1931.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Time Service
Records related to construction at Oak Ridge Station
Building specifications in this series document the erection of a Central Building at Oak Ridge Station in 1932, and blueprints highlight landscape improvements around the Oak Ridge Lodge in 1938. The Harvard College Observatory operated the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, first constructed in 1932.
Records related to the Harvard College Observatory Series of books on astronomy
In the 1940s, a series of nine books by Harvard College Observatory staff members, edited by Harlow Shapley and Bart J. Bok, was published to present an overview of astronomy to teachers, students, amateur astronomers, and the public. This series documents the production of the first nine books published in the Harvard College Observatory astronomy book series.
Margaret Mayall personal archive
Papers of Donald Howard Menzel, 1931-1986
Records of the Harvard College Observatory kept by Willard Peabody Gerrish
Records of the Harvard College Observatory : Research contract files related to the solar observatory at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico
Small Magellanic Cloud finding charts inscribed with the names of Harvard College Observatory astronomers
Photographs of Boyden Station in South Africa
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- Mayall, Margaret W. (Margaret Walton) 1
- Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976 1
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- Astronomy -- Research. 6
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- Astronomers -- United States. 4
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- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 4
- Telescopes. 4
- Time measurements. 4
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 3
- Astronomy -- History. 3
- Chronometers. 3
- Financial records. 3
- Photographs 3
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 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
- Chronograph. 2
- Diaries 2
- Manuscripts (documents) 2
- Occultations. 2
- Photoprints. 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Stars -- Clusters. 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Variable stars. 2
- Account books. 1
- Albums. 1
- American Association of Variable Star Observers. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids--Orbits. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomers -- Archives. 1
- Astronomers. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- South Africa. 1
- Astronomy -- Observations. 1
- Astronomy -- Societies, etc. 1
- Astronomy -- Study and teaching. 1
- Astrophysics. 1
- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Autobiographies. 1
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- Boyden Station (Bloemfontein, South Africa) 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
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- Diplomas. 1
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- Eclipses, Solar -- 1973. 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
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- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Maine. 1
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- Medals 1
- Meteorology 1
- Meteorology -- Observations 1
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- Meteors -- Orbits 1
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- Observatories. 1
- Orion Nebula 1
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- Space sciences -- International cooperation. 1
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- Sun -- Research. 1
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- United States Coast Survey 4
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865. 3
- Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859 3
- Harvard University -- Astronomy. 3
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 3
- Boyden Station (Bloemfontein, South Africa) 2
- Goldberg, Leo, 1913-1987. 2
- Harvard University 2
- Harvard University -- Meteorology. 2
- International Astronomical Union. 2
- United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. 2
- Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 1
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. 1
- Bond, Richard Fifield, 1827-1866 1
- Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889 1
- Boyden, Uriah A. (Uriah Atherton), 1804-1879 1
- Cannon, Annie Jump, 1863-1941 1
- Harvard University -- Study and teaching. 1
- International Scientific Radio Union. 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
- Kitt Peak National Observatory. 1
- Mayall, Margaret W. (Margaret Walton) 1
- Mayall, Margaret W. (Margaret Walton), correspondent. 1
- Paraskevopoulos, J. S. 1
- Pickering, Edward C., (Edward Charles), 1846-1919. 1
- Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972. 1
- Smith, Elske v. P. , (Elske van Panhuys), 1929- 1
- United States Naval Observatory 1
- United States. Air Force. 1
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 1
- United States. Navy 1
- Waldo, Leonard, 1853- 1
- Wellesley College -- Students. 1
- William Bond & Son 1
- Winlock, Joseph, 1826-1875 1
- Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 1 ∧ less