Manuscripts

L -- Miscellaneous

Description: Carl Otto Lampland (1); Lancaster High School (1); Lancaster, New Hampshire [to unidentified person re eclipse plans] (1); E. M. Lang, Jr. (2); Leeds & Northrup Co. (3); Arthur Leslie (1); Gertrude Lofy (1)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1930-1932
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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L -- Miscellaneous
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Claude Jerome Lapp (3); H. J. Larson (3); Francis P. Leavenworth (2); Oliver Justin Lee (2); The Leeds & Northrup Co. (9); The Literary Digest (1); Leonard Benedict Loeb (1)
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Oliver Justin Lee (2); The Leeds & Northrup Co. (20); Walter F. Lineberger [includes correspondence with Smithsonian Institution] (6); The Littleton Co. (1); Knut Lundmark (2)
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C -- Miscellaneous
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Walter Guyton Cady (2); Edwin Francis Carpenter (1); Central Scientific Co. (4); Major E. B. Colladay [re plans for Eclipse expedition to Fort Rosecrans] (2); Corning Glass Co. (9); Clifford Charles Crump (4); Leland E. Cunningham (1)
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S -- Miscellaneous
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The Scientific Monthly (3); George Cheever Shattuck (1); Forrest Shreve (4); Otto Julius Sieplein (1); A. O. Smith Corp. (1); Maynard Goldman Snell (2); D. W. Starrett (5); Gwendolyn Stead (3); Arthur H. Steinhaus (1); Harlan True Stetson (1); H. M. Strecker (2); William Stoermer (2); E. F. Stroh (1); Otto Struve (1); Carl A. Stutsman (3); Ransome Sutton (1)
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B -- Miscellaneous
Manuscripts
Bell & Howell Co. (1); Nels August Bengston (3); H. E. M. Bernhard (1); Walter E. Bernheimer (2); Charles A. Bothamley (2); J. Staley Brode (4); Gertrude Brownell [Randal] (2); Herbert Brownell (2); M. M. [Mrs. Herbert] Brownell (3); S. M. Brownell (2); L. V. Burton (7); Julio Bustos Navarrete (3); Byrd Antarctic Expedition II (2)
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T -- Miscellaneous
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W. Taverner (3); Theodore F. Tarbox (2); Samuel E. Traudt (2); Gertrude Ogden Tubby (2)
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