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Collection of Edward Holyoke materials
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 312
Overview:
Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) was the ninth president of Harvard College, serving for thirty-two years from 1737 to 1769. This artificial collection, dated 1721-circa 1780s, consists of an astronomy notebook and sermons written by Holyoke, a drinking tube fashioned from his watch case, a letter to Holyoke from his friend Benjamin Dearborn, and a letter to a proprietor of the Second Church of Marblehead, Massachusetts, from Overseer William Dudley related to Holyoke’s election as president of...
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director Joseph Winlock
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.10
Overview:
Joseph Winlock (1826-1875) was an astronomer and mathematician who served as the third director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1866 until his death on June 11, 1875. The records document Joseph Winlock's tenure as director, and primarily consist of Winlock's incoming and outgoing correspondence files. The letters relate to Observatory publications, relationships with other scientific institutions, and discussions of astronomical and meteorological information. The records also...
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- Creator
- Harvard College Observatory 1
- Subject
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomy -- Early works to 1800 1
- Cambridge (Mass.) 1
- College presidents--Massachusetts--Cambridge 1
- Correspondence. 1
- Drinking vessels -- 18th Century 1
- Financial records. 1
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 1
- Harvard University -- Finance. 1
- Letterpress copybooks. 1
- Notebooks. 1
- Optics -- Early works to 1800 1
- Sermons 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Abbot, Mary Holyoke, 1782-1829 1
- Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll, 1806-1889 1
- Boyden, Uriah A. (Uriah Atherton), 1804-1879 1
- Dearborn, Benjamin, 1725-1755 1
- Dudley, William, 1686-1743 1
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