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Manuscripts
The papers consist of Francis Pease's research papers. It contains correspondence, manuscripts, Pease's notes (including his work notes, many of which contain various drawings and diagrams by him), reprints, photographs, etc. Topics covered in the collection are numerous and include the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Yerkes Observatory, astronomy and astronomers. The majority of it relates to Pease's research on the speed-of-light (highlighting his manuscript with Albert A. Michelson), Ether drift, his observations of the Moon, the Sun, Jupiter, star diameters, galaxies, nebulae, as well as his work on interferometers, and the design and construction of telescopes.
mssPease papers
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Manuscripts
Two typescripts signed by Asimov. One is a 13-page, undated short story, The Feeling of Power. The other is a 20-page essay, Passing on the Information, concerning DNA and RNA and the work of biochemists Francis Crick and J.D. Watson; the essay is dated 1967.
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Visual Materials
One flyer entitled Class in Drawing and Painting From Nature; Composition and Design, by A.G. Randall, Commonwealth School of Art and Industry, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1906. The subtitle reads: "At Boothbay Harbor, Maine, from July 9th to August 11th, 1906." This brochure is 4 unnumbered pages in length, and describes the classes offered, as well as the housing costs, terms and location of the summer program. The school logo, centered on the first page, features an outline view of the eastern half of Massachusetts; Cape Cod is represented by a human arm holding artists' implements. "3-" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
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Visual Materials
One book, ca. 1930, entitled The Teacher of Oil Painting and Tapestry, 5th edition, by D. M. Campana, published by D. M. Campana Art Co., Chicago. This book is 128 numbered pages in length, and is illustrated with black and white images. The title on the front cover is within an elaborate decorative frame, and bears the subtitle: "a useful book giving many informations on the method of coloring, composition, harmony, effects, materials etc. practical and good, low price." The inside front and back covers are blank; the title page is decorated with a floral frame and a floral device which appears below the title. The book is divided into chapters, and addresses issues such as canvases, brushes, color mixing, composition, drawing and painting specific subjects such as animals or fruit. A 3-page index is followed by 3 final pages listing other publications by D.M. Campana.
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Rare Books
Traces the developing knowledge about germs from the first sighting of them under a primitive microscope to modern medicine's new methods of combating them
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Manuscripts
This box includes materials related to Resolution of galaxies M31, 32, NGC205, 147, 185; Mt. Wilson contribution 696 & 697; Notes on Population I & II Cepheids 1950-60; and lectures from 1950-1958 including: Dublin IAU 1955, Bruce 1954-55, Darwin, Lecture course at Caltech, Charlottesville 1958, and Russell 1958.
mssBaade papers