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Frederick Hanley Seares Papers

Description

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.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1909-1945
Call number
mssSeares papers
Creator
Seares, Frederick Hanley (1873-1964)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Placed on deposit by Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1988.
Associated people
Adams, Walter S. (1876-1956.)
Aitken, Robert Grant, (1864-1951.)
Barnard, Edward Emerson, (1857-1923.)
Campbell, William Wallace, (1862-1938.)
Fock, Gustav, (1893-1974.)
Frost, Edwin Brant, (1866-1935.)
Gale, Henry Gordon, (1874-1942.)
Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, (1900-1979.)
Gilbert, Walter M. (1868-1938.)
Hale, George Ellery, (1873-1967.)
Hertzsprung, Ejnar, (1889-1953.)
Hubble, Edwin, (1851-1922.)
Kapteyn, J. C. (1868-1953.)
Leuschner, Armin Otto, (1882-1960.)
Mees, C. E. Kenneth (1869-1945.)
Merriam, John C. (1898-1990.)
Moore, Charlotte Emma, (1861-1925.)
Parkhurst, John Adelbert, (1881-)
Pease, F. G. (1846-1919.)
Pickering, Edward C. (1886-)
Rhijn, P. J. van (1874-1960.)
Ross, Frank E. (1877-1957.)
Russell, Henry Norris, (1885-1972.)
Shapley, Harlow, (1878-1966.)
Stebbins, Joel, (1897-1963.)
Struve, Otto, (1879-1964.)
Wilson, Edwin Bidwell,
Associated organizations
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.
University of Chicago.
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