Manuscripts

Photographs

Description: Includes photographs of Walter S. Adams, Hale Solar Lab, Edwin Hubble, and Milton L. Humason.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1901-1956.
Call number: mssAdamsw
Creator: Adams, Walter S (1876-1956)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Deposit; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection, 1988.
Associated people: Abbot, C. G. (1872-1973.); Abetti, Giorgio, (1882-1982.); Baade, Walter, (1893-1960.); Babcock, Horace W. (1898-1973.); Bowen, Ira Sprague, (1890-1974.); Bush, Vannevar, (1862-1938.); Campbell, William Wallace, (1863-1941.); Cannon, Annie Jump, (1869-1960.); Davis, Dorothy N. (1878-1940.); Day, Arthur L. (1897-); Dugan, Raymond Smith, (1882-1944.); Dunham, Theodore, (1879-1955.); Eddington, Arthur Stanley, (1869-1940.); Einstein, Albert, (1877-1956.); Ellerman, Ferdinand, (1878-1944.); Fleming, J. A. (1874-1942.); Fox, Philip, (1882-1945.); Gale, Henry Gordon, (1868-1938.); Gilbert, Walter M. (1873-1967.); Goddard, Robert Hutchings, (1874-1964.); Hale, George Ellery, (1889-1953.); Hertzsprung, Ejnar, (1891-1972.); Hoover, Herbert, (1877-1946.); Hubble, Edwin, (1890-1960.); Humason, Milton L. (1882-1973.); Jeans, James, (1905-1973.); Jones, H. Spencer (1868-1953.); Joy, Alfred H. (1889-1958.); Kuiper, Gerard P. (1899-1994.); Leuschner, Armin Otto, (1882-1960.); Lundmark, Knut, (1901-1976.); Luyten, Willem Jacob, (1869-1945.); Mees, C. E. Kenneth (1852-1931.); Menzel, Donald H. (1866-1941.); Merriam, John C. (1868-1953.); Michelson, Albert A. (1874-1960.); Miller, Dayton Clarence, (1887-); Millikan, Robert Andrews, (1898-1990.); Mitchell, S. A. (1878-1949.); Moffitt, George Wilbur, (1880-1958.); Moore, Charlotte Emma, (1881-); Moore, J. H. (1889-1962.); Oort, Jan Hendrik. (1858-1938.); Pankhurst, Christabel, (1882-1945.); Pease, F. G. (1874-1960.); Pettit, Edison, (1877-1957.); Pickering, William H. (1871-1943.); Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1873-1964.); Ross, Frank E. (1885-1972.); Russell, Henry Norris, (1878-1966.); Schlesinger, Frank, (1897-1963.); Seares, Frederick Hanley, (1902-1980.); Shapley, Harlow, (1906-2004.); Stebbins, Joel, (1877-1953.); Struve, Otto,; Swope, Henrietta H.; Whipple, Fred L.; Wright, F. E.
Associated organizations: American Association for the Advancement of Science.; American Astronomical Society.; Bausch & Lomb Optical Company.; California Institute of Technology.; Carnegie Institution of Washington.; Eastman Kodak Company.; Griffith Observatory.; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.; International Astronomical Union.; Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories.; National Academy of Sciences (U.S.); National Research Council (U.S.); Pasadena Public Library.; Popular astronomy.; United States.; United States.; United States.; Yerkes Observatory.
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1 leaf/piece. Milton L. Humason; Edwin P. Hubble; Charles E. St. John; Albert A. Michelson; Albert Einstein; William W. Campbell; Walter S. Adams.
mssAdamsw
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Manuscripts
Consists of: Copernicus 1473-1543. Walter S. Adams (2 leaves/pieces) Copernicus (Speech). Walter S. Adams (5 leaves/pieces) Hale. Walter S. Adams (4 leaves/pieces) Interstellar lines in the brighter stars of the Pleiades. Walter S. Adams (3 leaves/pieces)
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Supplemental files
Manuscripts
The following four boxes are made up of correspondence (arranged alphabetically by author) and manuscripts (arranged by topic). The sub-series includes the same authors that can be found in the larger Adams Collection boxes. The manuscripts (which include reports, speeches, articles, press releases, etc.) are written by several different people including Walter Adams, George Ellery Hale, Albert Michelson, F. E. Wright and many others. The majority of these manuscripts are related to astronomy and Mt. Wilson. There is one manuscript about Albert Einstein's visit to Mt. Wilson. There is also one folder of photographs and one folder of ephemera. There is a photograph of Albert Einstein with Humason, Hubble, St. John, Michelson, Campbell and Adams (circa 1931).
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H -- MISCELLANEOUS (Hawk-Hynek) [33]
Additional Formats
[Grace Hawk; Walter S. Heller; Donald O. Hendrix; Joseph Q. Heplar; George H. Herbig; Paul Herget; Samuel Herrick, Jr.; Hilger & Watts, Ltd. {J. W. Perry}; Byron Hill; W. A. Hiltner {incl c.ltr BHRule to WAH; c.ltr WAH to BHRule}; Edison R. Hoge; A. R. Hogg; Leo Hollenberg; Alice W. Hood; Hubert V. Hopkins; Inga Howard; Edwin P. Hubble; Grace Hubble; Milton L. Humason; W. S. Huxford; J. A. Hynek]
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[R. E. Hackenger; George R. Harrison; M. E. Herriott; Francis J. Heyden, S. J.; W. A. Hiltner; Edison R. Hoge; K. L. Holaday; James S. Holmes {c.ltr JSH to Leland Mason (Aetna)}; W. R. Horsfield; W. B. Houston;A. G. Hoyer; C. W. Hsueh; Milton L. Humason; Edwin Hubble]
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Manuscripts
The collection chiefly consists of the administrative, scientific, and personal correspondence of Walter S. Adams spanning the years 1921 to 1956, including his work during World War II. Adams and the observatory staff worked, in secret, with the U.S. government and helped create prisms and optics for various types of binoculars and gun sights; the staff also assisted with aerial and naval defense and attack strategy. There is also material from Adams' retirement years. The collection also contains manuscripts and photographs (some of which are of the B-29 bomber), also dealing with Adams' astronomical work.
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