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Warner & Swasey.
Warner and Swasey collection, 1850-1919.
Chiefly drawings and photos of the company's plants and products, especially the telescopes and observatories on which the company worked, including the Lick, Yerkes, and U. S. Naval Observatories, together with material on military optical systems, correspondence, personal notebooks of Ambrose Swasey, founder and vice president, company catalogs and price lists, and slides with accompanying script relating to the early history of the company.
Founded by Worcester Reed Warner and Ambrose Swasey in 1880 to manufacture high-grade special machinery and machine tools. They set new standards for the manufacture of astronomical telescopes and other observatory equipment. They constructed, among others, the telescope for the Lick Observatory (1883), Kenwood Observatory, the U.S. Naval Observatory (1893), Yerkes Observatory (1897), Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Canada (1916), Argentia National Observatory (1926) and the Case Institute Observatory (1941).
Swasey, Ambrose, 1846-1937.
Warner, Worcester Reed, 1846-1929
Lick Observatory.
United States Naval Observatory.
Warner & Swasey Company -- History.
Yerkes Observatory.
Observatories.
Observatories -- Design and construction.
Telescopes.
Catalogs. aat
Drawings. aat aat
Notebooks. aat
Photographs. aat
Price lists. aat
Slides (photographs). aat
Swasey, Ambrose, 1846-1937.
Warner, Worcester Reed, 1846-1929
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Case Western Reserve University. Kelvin Smith Library. Special Collections. 11055 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106-7151, USA
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