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Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond
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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...
Lawrence G. Smith personal archive
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 260
Overview:
The Lawrence G. Smith personal archive documents his academic and social experiences as a Harvard undergraduate, a graduate student, his career as a bank officer, and as a Harvard alumnus from 1955 to 2021. Records include Smith's personal correspondence, diaries, and Harvard College Class of 1959 reunion memorabilia. Lawrence George Smith was a senior bank Vice-President. He received his Harvard AB in 1959, his AM in 1964, and his PhD in the history of American civilization from Harvard in...
Wyman family archive
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 271
Overview:
The collection documents five generations of the Wyman family, as well as the Morrill and Whitney families. It contains correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, notes, diaries, and financial documents, providing a view of New England daily life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The bulk of the collection relates to Rufus Wyman (1810-1870), Jeffries Wyman (1814-1874), Jeffries Wyman (1864-1941), Jeffries Wyman (1901-1995), and Anne Cabot Wyman (1929-2014) and families. Financial...
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- Creator
- Harvard College Observatory 1
- Smith, Lawrence G., 1938- 1
- Wyman family 1
- Subject
- Correspondence. 2
- Diaries 2
- Account books. 1
- Amateur astronomy. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomers -- United States. 1
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 1
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomical photography. 1
- Astronomical photometry. 1
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 1
- Astronomy -- History. 1
- Astronomy -- Research. 1
- Audio recordings. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 1
- Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. 1
- Cabinet photographs. 1
- Cambridge (Mass.) 1
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
- Chronograph. 1
- Chronometers. 1
- College students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Correspondence 1
- Comets. 1
- Diaries. 1
- Financial records. 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Harvard objects 1
- Harvard students' letters 1
- Horology. 1
- Human anatomy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Racial analysis 1
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors. 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Occultations. 1
- Periodicals. 1
- Planets. 1
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 1
- Scrapbooks. 1
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 1
- Stars -- Clusters. 1
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Time measurements. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1
- Variable stars. 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865. 1
- Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859 1
- Harvard College (1780- ) 1
- Harvard College Observatory 1
- Harvard University 1
- Harvard University -- Astronomy. 1
- Harvard University -- Meteorology. 1
- Smith, Lawrence G., 1938- 1
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 1
- United States Coast Survey 1
- United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. 1
- Wyman family 1
- Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874 1
- Wyman, Jeffries, 1901-1995 1
- Wyman, Jeffries, Jr., 1864-1941 1 ∧ less
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