Manuscripts
Photograph taken in the Mount Wilson Observatory Library
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Manuscripts
The following four boxes are made up of correspondence (arranged alphabetically by author) and manuscripts (arranged by topic). The sub-series includes the same authors that can be found in the larger Adams Collection boxes. The manuscripts (which include reports, speeches, articles, press releases, etc.) are written by several different people including Walter Adams, George Ellery Hale, Albert Michelson, F. E. Wright and many others. The majority of these manuscripts are related to astronomy and Mt. Wilson. There is one manuscript about Albert Einstein's visit to Mt. Wilson. There is also one folder of photographs and one folder of ephemera. There is a photograph of Albert Einstein with Humason, Hubble, St. John, Michelson, Campbell and Adams (circa 1931).
mssAdams papers
Banquet given by California Institute of Technology associates in honor of Dr. Einstein
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Banquet given by California Institute of Technology associates in honor of Dr. Einstein - Sitting L-R: Robert A. Millikan, Dr. Albert A. Einstein, Dr. Albert Michelson [these first three were Nobel Laureates], Dr. William Wallace Campbell. - Standing L-R: Dr. Charles St. John, Dr. Walter Mayer, Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, Dr. William B. Nunro, Dr. Richard C. Tolman, Mr. Allan C. Balch, Dr. Walter S. Adams, Mr. Russell H. Ballard.
photCL SCE 10 - 00146
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3 Logbooks of Plates Taken by Edwin Powell Hubble at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories
Manuscripts
The papers of Edwin P. Hubble include manuscripts and reprints of his articles, papers, public lectures, addresses, etc., scientific documentation for his papers, logbooks of photographic plates taken by Hubble at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, diaries and biographical memoirs of his wife Grace Burke Hubble, professional, personal, and social correspondence, photographs, medals and awards, a scrapbook assembled by Grace Hubble, newspaper clippings, etc.
mssHUB 1-1098
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Photographs: Mount Wilson Observatory and Yerkes Observatory (1937). 16 items
Manuscripts
The papers consist of Francis Pease's research papers. It contains correspondence, manuscripts, Pease's notes (including his work notes, many of which contain various drawings and diagrams by him), reprints, photographs, etc. Topics covered in the collection are numerous and include the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Yerkes Observatory, astronomy and astronomers. The majority of it relates to Pease's research on the speed-of-light (highlighting his manuscript with Albert A. Michelson), Ether drift, his observations of the Moon, the Sun, Jupiter, star diameters, galaxies, nebulae, as well as his work on interferometers, and the design and construction of telescopes.
mssPease papers
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Mount Wilson Observatory
Manuscripts
Mainly letters & telegrams to/from staff at Mt. Wilson sent while Pettit was spending the summers at Yerkes Observatory. Walter Sydney Adams; Elizabeth Connor; Edison R. Hoge; Anne McConnel; Elizabeth E. Sternberg; Louise Ware
mssPettit papers