Manuscripts

Walter Sydney Adams

Description: [Concerning Joy's biographical articles on Adams for Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs. Includes: copy typed ms. "Biographical Notes --Walter S. Adams" [c. 1955]; copy typed ms. "Biographical Notes on Walter S. Adams (August 1943)"; Bibliographic notes; handwritten note by Adams on the time he and others took A. S. Eddington to a baseball game in Los Angeles]
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1910-1972.
Call number: mssJoy papers
Creator: Joy, Alfred H (1882-1973)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Placed on deposit by Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1988.

Reference Notebook

Manuscripts

[Contains various subject headings with pertinent bibliographic references]

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Walter Sydney Adams personal files

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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Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956. 1 letter (1934, Oct. 12) to F. G. (Francis Gladheim) Pease, b. 1881. 1 item

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The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, printed material and ephemera all related to astronomer Francis Gladheim Pease, his astronomy work, and the telescopes he designed. There are 13 letters by George Ellery Hale as well as a copy of an offprint of "Building the 200-Inch Telescope" by Hale (originally published in Harper's Magazine, November 1929). There is an offprint of "The Spectra of Four of the Temporary Stars" written by Pease and Walter S. Adams (published in Contributions from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory No. 87 in 1914). The correspondence includes several prominent individuals including: Giorgio Abetti, Walter S. Adams, John A. Anderson, Andrew Carnegie (typed copy), Edward H. Davis, Elmer Grey, George Ellery Hale, Fred E. Harvey, Herbert E. Ives, Thornwell Jacobs, George Wharton James, Helen Keller (photocopy of letter), Albert A. Michelson, Robert A. Millikan, James R. Page, F. E. Wright, and the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. There is also one letter addressed to Thomas Edison. The manuscripts include several items by F. G. Pease including a "Figuring Book" which contains his work on various telescopes and contains blueprints and a manuscript entitled "Notes on a 25-Foot Reflector."

mssPease addenda

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Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956 and F. G. (Francis Gladheim) Pease, b. 1881. "The Spectra of Four of the Temporary Stars:" offprint (1914). 1 item

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Henry Norris Russell

Manuscripts

[Biographical article and notes for the Griffith Observer]

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Joe Adams Cooper

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the professional papers of Alfred Harrison Joy. It includies both incoming and copies of going correspondence (3 boxes) and research files (manuscripts, lectures, notebooks, etc.) related to Joy's study of stellar radial velocities, variable stars, T Tauri stars, and galactic structure.

mssJoy papers

Walter Sydney Adams

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Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956. 1 letter (1934, Oct. 12) to F. G. (Francis Gladheim) Pease, b. 1881. 1 item

Adams, Walter S. (Walter Sydney), 1876-1956 and F. G. (Francis Gladheim) Pease, b. 1881. "The Spectra of Four of the Temporary Stars:" offprint (1914). 1 item

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