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
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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 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...
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,...
Papers of Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas, 1890-1997
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Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: SC 142
Overview:
Papers of Helen Meriwether Lewis Thomas, Radcliffe College Class of 1928.
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- Repository
- Harvard University Archives 3
- Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute 1
- Subject
- Amateur astronomy. 2
- Astronomers -- United States. 2
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 2
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 2
- Astronomical photography. 2
- Astronomical photometry. 2
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 2
- Astronomy -- History. 2
- Astronomy -- Research. 2
- Chronograph. 2
- Chronometers. 2
- Correspondence. 2
- Financial records. 2
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 2
- Occultations. 2
- Photographs 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 2
- Stars -- Clusters. 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Time measurements. 2
- Account books. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids--Orbits. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomy -- Observations. 1
- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
- Comets. 1
- Diaries 1
- Donati comet. 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Horology. 1
- Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Meteorology -- Observations 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors -- Orbits 1
- Meteors. 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Orion Nebula 1
- Planets--Brightness. 1
- Planets--Orbits. 1
- Planets. 1
- Rationing--United States 1
- Refracting telescopes. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Transcripts 1
- Variable stars -- Spectra 1
- Variable stars. 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Radar 1 ∧ less
- Names
- 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
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