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Papers of Annie Jump Cannon

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 125
Overview:

The collection documents both the personal and professional life of Annie Jump Cannon, the first astronomer to systematically classify the stars.  It contains diaries, autobiographical writings, correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs, relating to her life and career.

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.349
Overview: In the mid-nineteenth century, the Chronometric Expedition was carried out by the Harvard College Observatory, under the direction of William Cranch Bond and in conjunction with the United States Coast Survey. The expedition used chronometers that were made by William Bond & Son, the Bond family's private business, to determine differences of longitude between the observatories in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Liverpool, England. The records primarily consist of notebooks, data sheets,...

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 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 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...

Papers of Margaret Harwood, 1891-1971

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: SC 20
Overview:

Lecture notebooks, autobiographical sketch, astronomical problems, and astronomy final exams created by Arthur Searle; also correspondence and course materials of Margaret Harwood, Radcliffe College Class of 1907.

Papers of Margaret Harwood, 1902-1974

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: 79-M62--2007-M228
Overview:

Correspondence, family papers, photographs, etc., of Margaret Harwood, astronomer.

Interviews by Bonnie Spanier, 1912-1998 (inclusive), 1979-1988 (bulk)

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 954; T-462
Overview:

Transcripts and audiocassettes (and related consent forms, notes, correspondence, and printed material) of oral history interviews conducted by biologist Bonnie Spanier of fellow scientists.

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 Agnes Ermina Wells, 1894-1959

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: 82-M162
Overview:

Thesis, correspondence, calendars, etc., of Agnes Ermina Wells, dean of women at Indiana University and professor of mathematics and astronomy.

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 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 Radcliffe "Women in Science" Exhibit, 1935-1940

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: B-6
Overview:

Correspondence, financial records, clippings, etc., of Radcliffe "Women in Science" Exhibit, which was held July-September 1936, in connection with Harvard’s Tercentenary.

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.

Women of Harvard, 1636-1986, exhibit files, 1986

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: SC 95
Overview:

Research material and publicity for the exhibition, "Women of Harvard, 1636-1986."

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