Harvard College Observatory. Office of the Director
Harvard College Observatory Office of the Director records, 1863-1958.
General material includes accounts; records of expenditures; payrolls and other financial records; computations including those of chronometric expedition; observational data; Donald H. Menzel's research contracts, for solar observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico; drawings of 1858 comet and celestial objects by Etienne L. Trouvelet; shipment list; general expenses of John S. Paraskevopoulos and William H. Pickering; charts showing observations of Gegenschein by Pickering; payroll and other items. This material was generated by the research stations in Peru, South Africa, the Mandeville Station in Jamaica, and the Observatory in Cambridge.
The Astronomical Observatory was established in 1839, and is now known as the Harvard College Observatory. The Massachusetts stations are in Cambridge and the George R. Agassiz Station (Oak Ridge) in Harvard, Mass. The Boyden Station of the Observatory was originally located in Arequipa, Peru until 1927 when it was transferred near Bloemfontien in the Orange Free State, South Africa. This station closed about 1966.
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976
Paraskevopoulos, John Stefanos, 1889-1961.
Pickering, W. H. (William Hayward), 1910-2004
Trouvelot, tienne Lǒpold, 1827-
Boyden Observatory
Harvard College Observatory.
Harvard College Observatory. Office of the Director
Mandeville Station (Jamaica, B.W.I.)
Astronomical observatories.
Astronomy
Photographs. aat
Drawings. aat
AIP-ICOS
Harvard University. Archives. Pusey Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.