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Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Donald H. Menzel

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.37
Overview: Donald Howard Menzel (1901-1976), astronomer and astrophysicist, served as director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1952 until his retirement in 1966. The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Donald H. Menzel consist chiefly of incoming and outgoing letters with a variety of correspondents, including many notable scientists from the United States and abroad, and document the research and administrative activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1951 to 1969....

Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.6
Overview: The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, consisting of correspondence and subject files, manuscript drafts, and astronomical data, chiefly document the research activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1859 to 1865. Chronicled are observations of planets, including Mars and Jupiter; efforts to determine the brightness of stars; and the detection of comets, eclipses, and other astronomical phenomena. George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), an astronomer,...

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Leo Goldberg

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.38.5
Overview: Leo Goldberg (1913-1987), astronomer and astrophysicist, was director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1966 to 1971. The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Leo Goldberg document his tenure as head of the Observatory from 1966 to 1969, and consist of correspondence, memoranda, research proposals, and reports related to the scientific and administrative functions of the Observatory, as well as its relationship with other observatories, projects, and organizations,...

Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond

FOUND IN: 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...

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director's Office

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Series Identifier: UAV 630.95.3
Scope and Contents: The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director's Office contains memoranda, reports, minutes, budgets, and correspondence from the Physics, Astronomy, and Earth and Planetary Sciences departments. The series also includes documents from the Oak Ridge Observatory, the Donald Menzel Memorial Service, and the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. It includes materials for visiting committees, curriculum vitae, candidate evaluations, and other records concerning appointments, as well as...

Records of the Harvard College Observatory : Observations of zodiacal light and the gegenschein

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.263
Overview: The Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (founded in 1890) were merged in 1973 to form The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The systematic examination of zodiacal light and the gegenschein, optical phenomena associated with dust in the plane of the planets, began at the Harvard College Observatory in 1877. The records in this collection, including notes, star charts, and sketches, document the study of zodiacal light and the gegenschein by...

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Phillips Library

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.150.5
Overview:

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

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Series Identifier: UAV 630.271
Overview: These photographs depict the activities, personnel, and research of the Harvard College Observatory, including Observatory personnel, buildings, equipment, and surrounding landscape in Cambridge and at observatory stations in Colorado, California, possibly Jamaica, and South America (chiefly Peru). Research was primarily astronomical, but involved some meteorological observation to determine where the Observatory stations should be sited. Approximately 600 of the photographs depict South...

Records of the Harvard College Observatory relating to meteor research kept by Willard J. Fisher

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.30
Overview:

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

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.35
Overview:

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

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Sub-Fonds Identifier: UAV 630.377
Overview: In 1872, under Director Joseph Winlock, the Harvard College Observatory established the world’s first public time service, which it provided as a commercial service until 1892. The Observatory sold its time service to railroads and businesses by sending hourly signals over Boston’s fire alarm system and distributing time across the region via Western Union telegraph lines; this work eventually resulted in the establishment of the country's first time zone. The Records of the Harvard College...

Margaret Mayall personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 294
Overview: Margaret Walton Mayall (1902-1995) was an American astronomer. After receiving her MA from Radcliffe College in 1928, she began working at the Harvard College Observatory. This collection contains 35 black and white photographs, which depict the Harvard College Observatory staff camping in southeastern Maine to watch the total solar eclipse on August 31, 1932. Also includes Mayall’s 1957 G. Bruce Blair Award and a copy of Mayall’s 1970 Manual for Observing Variable...

Papers of Donald Howard Menzel, 1931-1986

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4567
Overview: Donald Howard Menzel (1901-1976) taught astronomy at Harvard, and was director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1952 to 1966. According to the National Academy of Sciences' Biographical Memoir, "Menzel was one of the first practitioners of theoretical astrophysics in the United States and pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to astronomical spectroscopy." These papers chiefly document Menzel's professional life of research, writing, and participation in professional...

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.

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...

Small Magellanic Cloud finding charts inscribed with the names of Harvard College Observatory astronomers

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.253
Overview: This series contains seventeen photographic finding charts of the Small Magellanic Cloud produced in the early twentieth century and inscribed with the names of several astronomers working at the Harvard College Observatory, including Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Marjorie Browning Leavens, Sylvia Mussells Lindsay, Sarah Hall Bonesteele, and Philip Shaefer Riggs. The Magellanic Clouds comprise two irregular galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which...

Photographs of Boyden Station in South Africa

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUY 178
Overview: Boyden Station was established by Harvard University in 1889 to allow for observations from the Southern Hemisphere. The observatory was originally located in Arequipa, Peru, but was relocated to a spot near Bloemfontien in the Orange Free State, South Africa in 1927 due to better weather. The collection includes 182 photographs, which probably date from the 1930s to 1950s. The images depict Boyden Station, as well as its surrounding areas, including employees, equipment, and local South...

William Bond & Son records and Bond family papers, 1724-1931 (inclusive), 1769-1923 (bulk)

FOUND IN: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: hsi00001
Overview:

This collection consists of personal papers of clock maker and astronomer William Cranch Bond (1789-1859) and his family, the records of the company William Bond & Son, of Boston, Massachusetts, some records of the Harvard College Observatory, papers of J. Morton Clinch, photographs, printed material, and medals and watches, dated from 1724 to 1931.

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