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PETTIT -- PERSONAL

Description

See note in Administrative Information section for permission to use material in the Pettit folders. The Athenaeum (1); Birmingham Motor Sales, Inc. (1); John L. Blair [New Process Co.] (2); Carnegie Institution of Washington (6); Cranbrook School (1); Crater Lake National Park (1); Crawford-Dawe-Grove Agency (2); T. M. Evans (1); Farmers Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange (1); The Fuller Brush Co. (1); Lillian Headley (1); Internal Revenue Service (2); Rena W. Leger (3); Alma Pettit (3); John W. Pettit (2); Leonard Pettit (3); The Robert Phillipps Co. (6); Mabel Raymond (1); San Francisco pamphlet (1); Florence L. Sawyer (2); Title Guarantee and Trust Co. (1); Union Pacific Railroad Co. (2); United States Fire Insurance Co. [Sadler & Holmes Insurance] (1); Katherine Louise Van Wyck [draft of letter to Walter Whitney on back] (1); W. V. Wiegand (1); Wisconsin National Life Insurance Co. (1)

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1933-1937
Call number
mssPettit papers
Creator
Pettit, Edison (1889-1962)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Deposit; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection, 1988.
Restrictions
According to a note in the papers, all personal correspondence of Edison Pettit (indicated in the contents list as "PETTIT PERSONAL") remains the property of the family and heirs of Edison Pettit. Before the personal property of Edison Pettit may be made available for public research, permission must be obtained from a family member. The Carnegie Observatories, as part of the 1987 letter of agreement, have given the Huntington Library the right to provide permission to publish from the remaining portion of the papers.
Associated people
Abbot, C. G. (1872-1973.)
Aitken, Robert Grant, (1864-1951.)
Babcock, Harold D. (1882-1968.)
Bateson, Frank M. (1895-1967.)
Brooks, Frederick A. (1873-1962.)
Coblentz, William W. (1866-1935.)
Frost, Edwin Brant, (1868-1938.)
Hale, George Ellery, (1882-1973.)
Joy, Alfred H. (1914-1993.)
McMath, Robert Raynolds. (1901-1976.)
Kopal, Zdeněk, (1891-1963.)
Menzel, Donald H. (1885-1972.)
Nicholson, Seth B. (1885-1964.)
Shapley, Harlow, (1877-1953.)
Stetson, Harlan True,
Wright, F. E.
Associated organizations
American Astronomical Society.
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
International Astronomical Union.
Popular astronomy.
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