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Milton La Salle Humason Papers
Manuscripts
This collection consists primarily of the correspondence of Milton La Salle Humason, a staff astronomer for the Mount Wilson [& Palomar] Observatories. There are occasional personal and scientific letters but these are very few compared to the letters from the public. The correspondence covers the years 1930-1952 (bulk 1948-1952). It contains both incoming and carbons of outgoing correspondence. The collections also includes a few press releases, newsletters, one manuscript in German, some ephemera, several black-and-white photographs and two black-and-white slides. Notable participants include: Ansel Adams, Robert Aitken, Loyal Aldrich, Lawrence Aller, C. T. Elvey, G. F. Fassett, George Gamow, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Warren K. Green, John C. Hogg, Edwin Powell Hubble, Wilhelminia Iwanowska, Martin Johnson, H. Spencer Jones, Egbert A. Kreiken, Wasley Krogdahl, Oliver Justin Lee, J. H. Moore, Thornton Page, Upton Sinclair, William T. Skilling, Harold C. Urey, H. L. Vanderlinden, Edwin Wald, Fletcher G. Watson, Frederick Weiss, Astronomy charted, Boston Museum of Science, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Drake University, Grolier Society, Harvard College Observatory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Angeles Astronomical Society, Physics today, Popular astronomy, Popular mechanics, Science illustrated, and Scientific American (this is only a partial list).
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Milton La Salle Humason scrapbook
Manuscripts
The disbound scrapbook was apparently kept by Milton Humason himself, and contains news clippings about Humason and topics of interest to him (astronomy, nebulae, comets, Einstein, Hubble, Hale, other astronomers, etc.), as well as original correspondence to him, news magazine extracts, mimeographed documents, and other ephemera. The scrapbook is accompanied by 17 black and white photographic reproductions, including recto and verso, showing Humason and other astronomers and staff at Mt. Wilson. There are also two other items of ephemera. Some of the items are in German.
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Correspondence between Hutchinson, Raymond; Pogo, Alexander, b. 1893; and Humason, Milton L. (1953). 5 items
Manuscripts
The collection is composed primarily of correspondence between Dr. Pogo and members of the general public with an interest in astronomical issues and the work of the Mount Wilson Observatory. The Observatory was founded in 1904 by George Ellery Hale and funded by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The Mount Wilson Observatory was also the research home of the well-known astronomer Edwin Hubble.The collection consists of a large number of letters from school-age children with questions about the workings of the universe. Other correspondence includes questions from amateur astronomers as well as a number of queries about the relationship between astronomy and religious issues, particularly biblical prophecies. Other subjects include flying saucers, space travel, expeditions to the moon, observations of the sky, comets, eclipses, and new planets. The collection also includes a number of letters from amateur and professional astronomers from around the world, particularly Europe and Latin America. Generally, the letters were not addressed directly to Dr. Pogo but were forwarded to him from the Observatory's administrative offices for replies.
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P, Q -- MISCELLANEOUS (Perez-Quarrie
Manuscripts
{Felix M. Perez [Sanchez]; T. P. Perkins; Nicolas Perrakis; C. D. Perrine; Max Petersen; John E. Pfeiffer; Philadelphia Inquirer [John Miller]; "Pinacyanol" [advert from Lucius & Brüning Farbwerke]; Harry Hemley Plaskett; Poggendorff's Biographisch-Literarisches Handwörterbuch; Popular Astronomy; Popular Science Monthly [Sumner Blossom]; M. A. Porcabeuf; J. G. Porter; Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory [H. von Klüber; E. F. Trondlich]; Poulkovo Observatory; N. R. Powley; Poznan Observatory [Joseph Witkowski]; Irwin G. Priest; Henry S. [& Mrs.] Pritchett; S. Procopin; W. S. Prosser; Herbert Putnam; G. P. Putnam's Sons; W. F. Quarrie & Co. [S. E. Farquhar]}
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Humason, Mrs. Milton L
Manuscripts
The collection deals primarily with the professional activities of Olin C. Wilson, who was most active from the mid-1930s into the 1980s. Wilson corresponded frequently with astronomers from a variety of universities in the United States and abroad, and the collection is representative of the deeply international and collaborative nature of astronomical and astrophysical research in the second half of the twentieth century. It also contains valuable and insightful material related to the schism between Mount Wilson and CalTech in the 1970s and 1980s, and the near-demise of Mount Wilson during that decade.
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Frederick Hanley Seares Papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the correspondence files and manuscripts, notes, and notebooks of American astronomer Frederick Hanley Seares. While roughly one half of the papers deal with administrative matters of the Mount Wilson Observatory, the remainder cover his scientific work. There are also some manuscripts, notes and notebooks (Boxes 19-21) related to Seares's research activities. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Walter S. Adams, Robert Grant Aitken, Edward Emerson Barnard, William Wallace Campbell, Gustav Fock, Edwin Brant Frost, Henry Gordon Gale, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, Walter M. Gilbert, George Ellery Hale, Ejnar Hertzprung, Edwin Powell Hubble, J.C. Kapteyn, Armin Otto Leuschner, C.E. Kenneth Mees, John C. Merriam, Charlotte Emma Moore, John Adelbert Parkhurst, Francis Gladheim Pease, Edward C. Pickering, P.J. van Rhijn, Frank E. Ross, Henry Norris Russell, Harlow Shapley, Joel Stebbins, Otto Struve, and Edwin Bidwell Wilson. Corporate and organizational organizations represented in the collection include: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Carnegie Institution of Washington, William H. Guild & Company, International Astronomical Union, International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, Mount Wilson Observatory and the University of Chicago Press.
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