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Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond
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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, was...
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...
Lyman Spalding papers
Collection Identifier: H MS c2Overview:
The Lyman Spalding papers, 1793-1965 (inclusive), 1793-1820 (bulk), contain correspondence of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, physician Lyman Spalding (1775-1821), his lecture notes on anatomy and surgery, Spalding's patient case histories and case reports, essays on medicine and meteorology, and tickets of admission to medical lectures at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. There are also botanical specimens Spalding collected in Portsmouth, and a small amount of twentieth century material...
Papers of Eleanor Stabler Brooks, 1910-1959
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Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: SC 146
Overview:
Family correspondence of the Stabler-Brooks family of Massachusetts with multiple ties to Harvard and Radcliffe.
Papers of Joanne Simpson, 1890-2010 (inclusive), 1950-1995 (bulk)
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Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 779; T-428; MP-35
Overview:
Articles and papers, work journals, photographs, and biographical material of meteorologist and atmospheric scientist Joanne Simpson.
Photographs of Boyden Station in South Africa
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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...
Somerville High School Film Collection
Collection Identifier: hfa00030Overview:
Consisting of 385 educational films produced for classroom use between the 1930s and 1980s, the Somerville High School Collection provides a representative sample of the subjects and genres of educational media used in classrooms during this period. Though collected by Somerville High School, the films are aimed at students from primary grades through high school and cover a variety of subjects including art, math, music, science, health, and social studies. A highlight of the collection is the...
William Heberden papers
Collection Identifier: H MS c25Overview:
The William Heberden papers, 1790-1837 (inclusive), consist of reports by Heberden (1767-1845) on the health of King George III of Great Britain to the Committee Appointed to Examine the Physicians who have Attended His Majesty during His Illness, and reports generated by that committee; manuscripts and article drafts by Heberden on management of the sick, classification of skin diseases, nervous disorders, the weather, and education; and a thesis on medical history and dropsy.
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- Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865. 1
- Brooks, Eleanor Stabler 1
- Harvard College Observatory 1
- Heberden, William, 1767-1845 1
- Simpson, Joanne 1
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- Harvard College Observatory 3
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865. 2
- Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859 2
- Harvard University -- Astronomy. 2
- Harvard University -- Meteorology. 2
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 2
- United States Coast Survey 2
- United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. 2
- Adams, Louisa Catherine, 1775-1852 1
- Bichat, Xavier, 1771-1802. 1
- Brooks, Eleanor Stabler 1
- Colcord, Frances Brooks, 1893- 1
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of the State of New-York. 1
- Dexter, Aaron 1
- Dow, Jabez, 1776-1839. 1
- Faculté de médecine de Paris 1
- Fairfield Medical College -- Faculty. 1
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 1
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee Appointed to Examine the Physicians who have Attended His Majesty during His Illness 1
- Great Britain. Privy Council 1
- Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1912 1
- Harvard Medical School -- Students. 1
- Harvard University--Faculty 1
- Heberden, William, 1767-1845 1
- Hyde de Neuville, Jean Guillaume, baron, 1776-1857. 1
- Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823. 1
- Larrey, Dominique Jean, baron, 1766-1842. 1
- Lord, Nathaniel, 1752-1817. 1
- Lordat, Jacques, 1773-1870. 1
- Paraskevopoulos, J. S. 1
- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813. 1
- Smith, Elske v. P. , (Elske van Panhuys), 1929- 1
- Spalding, Lyman, 1775-1821. 1
- Warren, John, 1753-1815. 1
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