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...
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...
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- Subject
- Account books. 1
- Amateur astronomy. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomers -- United States. 1
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 1
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomical photography. 1
- Astronomical photometry. 1
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 1
- Astronomy -- History. 1
- Astronomy -- Research. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Black and white photographs. 1
- Chronograph. 1
- Chronometers. 1
- College teachers' spouses -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Societies, etc. 1
- Comets. 1
- Correspondence. 1
- Diaries 1
- Financial records. 1
- Geodesy. 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
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Married women--United States 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors. 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Newsletters. 1
- Occultations. 1
- Planets. 1
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 1
- Scientists -- Social networks -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 1
- Stars -- Clusters. 1
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Time measurements. 1
- Variable stars. 1
- Women employees--United States 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865. 1
- Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859 1
- Brooks, Helen L. 1
- Division of Engineering and Applied Physics' Wives (Harvard University) 1
- Harvard College Observatory 1
- Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory. 1
- Harvard University -- Astronomy. 1
- Harvard University -- Meteorology. 1
- Harvard University. Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. 1
- Hunt, Frederick V. 1
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 1
- United States Coast Survey 1
- United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. 1 ∧ less
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