Helen L. Brooks collection relating to the Harvard University Underwater Sound Laboratory and the Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Physics Wives Committee
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 315
Overview:
Helen Lathrop Brooks (1917- ) worked as an editorial secretary at the Harvard University Underwater Sound Laboratory from March 1942 to July 1945. In 1958, Brooks founded and chaired the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics Wives Committee, which served as a social organization for the department's faculty members and their wives until 1977, when the group formally disbanded. The collection contains photographs of the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory, as well as employee rosters...
Harvard College Observatory photographs and programs from scientific conferences and meetings
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.216
Overview:
The Harvard College Observatory photographs and programs from scientific conferences and meetings consists of photographs, programs, and pamphlets documenting the participation of astronomers in professional organizations and conferences held at various locations in the United States, Canada, and Europe between 1898 and 1943. The photographs predominately depict groups of astronomers, particularly individuals from the Harvard College Observatory, posed outside of observatories, universities,...
Papers of Paul N. Ylvisaker, 1939-1992
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 142
Overview:
Paul N. Ylvisaker was a noted city planner, government official, foundation executive, and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1972-1982. He was known for his efforts in addressing urban issues, for philanthropy, and for committing the Harvard Graduate School of Education to a public service mission. These records document his professional life, including his prolific speech-making and his career as a consultant, executive, government official, and dean.
Records of the Cuban Summer School
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 813.400
Overview:
The Records of the Cuban Summer School document a six-week residential summer program held at Harvard University in 1900 that instructed more than one thousand Cuban teachers in the latest American educational methods and American culture. Consisting primarily of administrative records relating to the planning and coordination of the large-scale program, publications and photographs from the summer school are also included. These materials offer insight into American imperialism during the...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory: records kept by Administrative Officer Robert G. Reed
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.50.xx
Overview:
The records in this series, kept by Harvard College Observatory Administrative Officer Robert G. Reed, including correspondence, memoranda, agreements, and reports, document the management and research program of the Harvard College Observatory, chiefly from 1966 to 1982. The records highlight the financial challenges of maintaining an astronomy program at Harvard, the astronomical work conducted at the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, Texas, Boyden Station in South Africa, and...
Records of Agassiz Station: correspondence and other records of Henry A. Sawyer
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.103.15
Overview:
Henry A. Sawyer (born 1892), an astrophotographer, began his career at the Harvard College Observatory in 1920, moving to Oak Ridge Station (later George R. Agassiz Station) in 1932. Correspondence, reports, instructions, and memoranda in this series document Henry A. Sawyer's work as an observer at Agassiz Station examining variable stars and galaxies of the Milky Way using an 8-inch Ross Lundin and 16-inch Metcalf telescope.
Papers of Richard Clarke Cabot
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4255.xx
Overview:
Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939) was a physician and medical educator whose interests included social work, religion and medicine, and medical ethics. The Papers of Richard Clarke Cabot document both his professional and family life.
Dudley R. Herschbach personal archive
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 390
Overview:
Dudley Robert Herschbach (born 1932) is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University (emeritus, 2003). Herschbach is a pioneer in the study of molecular stereodynamics and measuring and theoretically interpreting the role of angular momentum and its vector properties in chemical reaction dynamics. For his research with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi, Herschbach was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986. The Dudley R. Herschbach personal archive documents the...
Gerald James Holton personal archive, 1919-2015 and undated
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 132
Overview:
Gerald Holton (born 1922) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science (Emeritus, 1992) at Harvard University. Holton's research has focused on the physics of matter at high pressure, the history and philosophy of science, the role of science in contemporary America, and science education. The collection documents Holton's academic and professional career, with the heaviest concentration of material dating from 1942 to 2011.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Associate Director, Bart J. Bok: administrative files
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.28
Overview:
Bart J. Bok (1906-1983), an astronomer, was the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University (1947-1957). Bok's principal fields of research included the study of the Milky Way, cosmic evolution, dark Nebulae, the spiral structure of the Galaxy, Star Clouds of Magellan, and radio astronomy. The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Associate Director, Bart J. Bok: administrative files, including correspondence, agendas, proposals, meeting minutes, scientific...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory: records of the Administrative Assistant to Director Donald H. Menzel kept by Velma A. Adams and Helen S. Federer
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.50
Overview:
The records in this series, kept by Velma A. Adams and Helen S. Federer, document the restoration program of the Harvard College Observatory, which was led by Donald H. Menzel and aimed to replace aging buildings and equipment, centralize financial management, simplify business processes, and support the Observatory's scientific program between 1953 and 1964.
Records of the Dean of Harvard College, 1889-1995
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAIII 5.33
Overview:
The Office of the Dean of Harvard College was established in 1890 at the time of an administrative reorganization of Harvard University, which included the creation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Prior to that time, the duties of the Dean of Harvard College had been carried out by a variety of college officers including the President of the University, the Regent, the Dean of the College Faculty, and members of the Faculty. These records, dating from 1889 through 1995, document the...
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...
Papers of Charles William Eliot, 1807-1945.
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.894
Overview:
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educators of his day and the innovations he introduced at Harvard University influenced higher education throughout the United States.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition
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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,...
Papers and Records of Charles William Eliot : obsolete call numbers
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.894 and UAI 5.150
Overview:
This document provides a guide, or map, from the obsolete call numbers that identified Charles William Eliot material in the Harvard University Archives to the current call numbers, series, subseries, and box numbers in which this material resides.
National Organization for Women -- "Project Harvard", 1970
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Harvard University Archives
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Sub-Group:
Records of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Senior Associate Dean Blenda J. Wilson
Item — Box 16Identifier: UAV 350.40.22
Scope and Contents:
These records document the finance, personnel, and general administration of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education from 1972 to 1978.
1930-1940 correspondence, 1921-1950
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Harvard University Archives
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Collection:
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director Harlow Shapley
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Series:
Correspondence
Sub-Series Identifier: UAV 630.22
Scope and Contents:
This subseries contains correspondence between Shapley and a variety of correspondents, including astronomers from the United States and abroad, such as Walter Sydney Adams, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Sergei Gaposchkin, Boris Gerasimovic, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Frank Hogg and Helen Sawyer Hogg, A.O. Leuschner, Knut Emil Lundmark, Willem Jacob Luyten, Donald H. Menzel, S.A. Mitchell, Ernst Julius Öpik, Pieter Johannes van Rhijn, Henry Norris Russell, Frank Schlesinger, and Otto Struve....
Correspondence, File II, Group II, incoming and outgoing, 1879-1922, bulk dates 1911-1921
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Harvard University Archives
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Collection:
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Edward Charles Pickering
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Series:
Incoming and outgoing correspondence files
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Sub-Series:
Correspondence, File II
Sub-Group Identifier: UAV 630.14, UAV 630.14, UAV 630.14, UAV 630.14
Scope and content:
The bulk of the correspondence in this sub-subseries concerns the celestial observations and research of other astronomers and observatories. Included are descriptions of the detection of meteors and asteroids, the sighting of comets, the study of double stars, the viewing of variable stars, and the observation of planets and satellites. Mentioned are important areas of astronomical research undertaken at the Harvard College Observatory in Pickering's exchanges with other astronomers,...
Articles and addresses, 1877-1941 and undated, 1877-1941 and undated
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Harvard University Archives
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Collection:
Papers of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1861-1945, 1953 and undated
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Series:
Writings by Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1877-1941 and undated
Sub-Series Identifier: UAI 15.896
Scope and Contents:
The writings in this subseries span the years 1877 to 1941 and include reprints, manuscript drafts, and book reviews. Some of the folders in this subseries contain letters from readers with comments on Lowell’s writings or addresses; other letters are from Lowell’s publishers regarding the publication of his remarks. Many of Lowell’s addresses were given at public events and were often reported on or republished in magazines, journals, newspapers, as proceedings of Societies, and in pamphlet...
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- Correspondence. 3
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 3
- Time measurements. 3
- Amateur astronomy. 2
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 2
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 2
- Astronomical photography. 2
- Astronomical photometry. 2
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 2
- Astronomy -- Research. 2
- Chronograph. 2
- Financial records. 2
- Occultations. 2
- Photographs 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 2
- Stars -- Clusters. 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Variable stars. 2
- Account books. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids--Orbits. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomy -- Observations. 1
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- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
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- College teachers' spouses -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Societies, etc. 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
- Comets. 1
- Diaries 1
- Donati comet. 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 1
- Harvard University -- Employees 1
- Harvard University -- Engineering. 1
- Harvard University -- Faculty spouses. 1
- Harvard University -- Laboratories. 1
- Harvard University -- Physics. 1
- Harvard University -- Social networks. 1
- Harvard University -- Women. 1
- Horology. 1
- Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Married women--United States 1
- Meteorology -- Observations 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors -- Orbits 1
- Meteors. 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Newsletters. 1
- Orion Nebula 1
- Planets--Brightness. 1
- Planets--Orbits. 1
- Planets. 1
- Refracting telescopes. 1
- Scientists -- Social networks -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Variable stars -- Spectra 1
- Women employees--United States 1 ∧ less
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- Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865. 3
- Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859 3
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 3
- United States Coast Survey 3
- Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 2
- Harvard University -- Astronomy. 2
- Harvard University -- Meteorology. 2
- United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. 2
- Bond, Richard Fifield, 1827-1866 1
- Brooks, Helen L. 1
- Division of Engineering and Applied Physics' Wives (Harvard University) 1
- Harvard College (1780- ). Office of the Dean 1
- Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory. 1
- Harvard University. Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. 1
- Harvard University. Summer School of Arts and Sciences and of Education 1
- Herschbach, Dudley R. 1
- Hunt, Frederick V. 1
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